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Wednesday
07:15 AM - 08:00 AM | |
| A significant portion of EA programs are in some stage of "re-birth". Some are restarting after one or more past failures, while others are struggling to re-kindle the flames after some stagnation has set in. This session provides proven, pragmatic ideas on how to address these scenarios.
* What are the most common EA program failure scenarios?
* What should be done in a new attempt at EA to be successful?
* How can we move an EA program out of a stagnation phase? |
Wednesday
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | |
| The disconnect between business strategy and action plans can have a crippling effect on the IT and business. To resolve this conflict, the enterprise architects must collaborate with business and IT counterparts understand the link between business, IT and enterprise architecture strategic planning.
* Why must organizations integrate business and IT strategic planning?
* What is the relationship between IT strategic planning and EA?
* What are the best practices for executing on your strategy?
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Wednesday
01:45 PM - 02:15 PM | |
| Organizational boundaries are being redefined to include many outside the official organization such as partners, customers, and suppliers. In the extended enterprise, the collective will influence EA governance This session will explore how enterprise architects must change the way they do governance to include the collective.
* Why Command and Control is no Longer a viable governance option?
* How can governance be conducted in the extended enterprise?
* How does social collaboration and social media influence governance processes?
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Wednesday
01:45 PM - 03:00 PM | |
| Government organizations need to create enterprise architecture requirements, just as any company should. In this workshop, we will focus on presenting the basic format for a public sector enterprise context and brainstorm on how you can create your own content.
* Why is developing an enterprise context critical for public sector organizations?
* What types of content should be included in a public sector enterprise context?
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Wednesday
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM | |
| Many EA practitioners struggle to involve the right people in the planning efforts they facilitate and in marketing their architectural guidance. Both of these problems are largely caused by poor communication approaches. This session will illustrate key best practices with case study examples.
* How to get stakeholder analysis right?
* What are the best ways to communicate and engage the right people in EA?
* What are some best practices and examples for communicating the use of EA content?
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Wednesday
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | |
| Federal EA projects are, by nature, large, highly federated and complex. As a result, there is an overload of sometimes conflicting advice and guidance available from oversight organizations, tool vendors, and various consultancies.
* How do Federal EA objectives stack up against commercial EA success criteria?
* What is working?
* How can federal EA programs work with business and mission areas to better enable decisions and drive more effective execution – while still meeting satisfying compliance and regulatory guidance?
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Thursday
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | |
| Leading organizations know "our business is IT, and IT is our business." Enterprise architects are in a unique position to enable and lead this unification of business and IT. One crucial aspect is leveraging an enterprise business architecture as a conduit for engaging business leaders, and understanding the ripple effect of business changes.
* What is the value of supporting enterprise business architecture (EBA)?
* How can organizations leverage business capabilities to engage the business?
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Thursday
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | |
| What if you could excite the most disparate group of your business stakeholders to land on a single page of strategic understanding and direction in 90 minutes? Then to visualize on the other side of that page the transformation journey described in that session. What if they then wanted you to partner with them to facilitate that journey…. and then suddenly you’re ‘doing’ real value-add architecture.
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Thursday
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM | |
| EA Tool selection is the largest financial investment by an EA Team. How do you make the correct choice and what are the hidden costs and issues? This presentation will address those administration, political and cultural issues of tool selection and operation.
* How is EA tool selection for an organization affected by many non-technical aspects?
* What are the hidden costs to tool selection?
* How can organizations manage licensing and other overhead costs to ensure investments are cost effective?
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Thursday
02:45 PM - 03:30 PM | |
| Integrating business strategy and vision is critical for driving business change and investment. In this co-presentation between a Gartner analyst and a client we will introduce business capability modeling and use a real life case study to illustrate how it can be used to provide actionable advice.
* How can business capability modeling be used to uncover business threats and opportunities?
* How has Canadian International Development Agency leveraged business capabilities to identify business investments and business process changes?
* What are the best practices for supporting business capability modeling?
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Thursday
03:45 PM - 04:30 PM | |
| Gartner clients all must translate their ideas into road maps and migration plans which gain stakeholder buy-in and provide actionable EA guidance. A common challenge is how to assure that multiple programs and technology investments converge into a practical sequence of projects and rapidly determine the impact of change.
* How can enterprise architects keep up with the pace of change?
* How can EAs effectively use EC responding to changes?
* What are the practices and processes to support business strategic planning?
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