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Professional Consultation on EA Capabilities

Posted By Louis King 11-13-2023 10:54:00 AM
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Dear Itana, Yale University's EA practice has evolved since its start nine years ago. We have frequently evaluated the value proposition, the capabilities, and the structure. We are at a good place in our evolution to holistically reevaluate the practice again. To do that, we are looking for outside ...

RE: Itana Call Friday, October 13: EDUCAUSE Week - The Best of EDUCAUSE

Posted By Louis King 10-12-2023 08:16:44 AM
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The call is on the wiki now. Done. Thanks for getting the message out and for reaching out for help. Cheers, -Louis Louis E. King Enterprise Architect 203.710.0787

Proof of Concept Design Review Framework

Posted By Louis King 09-14-2023 09:06:18 AM
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A simple design review process for getting critical feedback on IT solution design and software design. It puts the design team in charge and provides structure for successful interaction.

RE: Proof of Concept Framework

Posted By Louis King 09-14-2023 09:06:00 AM
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Tina, Fantastic! In my experience it is super important to have a structured process that puts the team that owns the solution design in the driver's seat. What I mean is that they will present the PoC and they will ask the critiques to address specific questions they want feedback on. This structure ...

Beth Schaefer Elected to Itana Chair

Posted By Louis King 09-11-2023 02:50:00 PM
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Dear Itana, I am following up on the retirement announcement Jim Phelps posted to the community a couple of weeks ago. In the September eighth Itana Steering Committee meeting we discussed various possibilities for moving forward. We discussed the experience and qualities we needed in the Itana chair. ...

RE: Itana Fall 2023 Kickoff Meeting

Posted By Louis King 09-08-2023 02:58:35 PM
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CORRECTION: Itana Fall 2023 Kickoff Meeting Date Correction. The Kickoff meeting is on September 15th. Folks, The Itana 2023-2034 call program kicks off on Friday, September 15th. The topic is Itana EA Heat Map – What's hot, what's not! Please fill out this 3-minute survey to share the focus of ...

Itana Fall 2023 Kickoff Meeting

Posted By Louis King 09-08-2023 02:32:00 PM
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Folks, The Itana 2023-2034 call program kicks off on Friday, September 26th. The topic is Itana EA Heat Map – What's hot, what's not! Please fill out this 3-minute survey to share the focus of your EA practice heading into the new academic year. In the call, we will dig deeper into the survey responses ...

RE: CRM for online student advising?

Posted By Louis King 08-03-2023 02:02:51 PM
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Greg, I did not respond earlier because I do not have the experience you asked for. However, I do have experience with large scale platforms in many mission critical university platforms. I am a strong believer in right-sizing the tool to your needs and not overbuying. The larger, more complex, and ...

RE: Business Capability Map for IT Governance

Posted By Louis King 04-20-2023 07:20:42 AM
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Jim, et al, I haven't done the work of developing a capability map. When I saw your message I pulled out the DMBOK to see if they have a capability structure. They don't. However, looking at the organizational structure of Executive Council->Enterprise Data Governance Oversight->Data Governance Council->Data ...

Great IT Architect Opportunity at Yale University

Posted By Louis King 04-18-2023 07:59:01 AM
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There is a great opportunity for the right IT Architect to join Yale's Health Sciences Information Services team. It is a growing department with interesting challenges to solve. Check it out on LinkedIn – IT Architect - Yale School of Medicine Business Systems. Feel free to reach out to me to learn ...

RE: Low Code Development Platforms

Posted By Louis King 01-09-2023 04:05:39 PM
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Cory, You make interesting points as well. We wouldn't expect to rapidly abandon our existing code development methodologies as we enter a low code/no code environment. We are focused on IT professionals including developers and other tech-savvy staff across the University, who would be capable of utilizing ...

RE: Low Code Development Platforms

Posted By Louis King 01-04-2023 07:32:03 AM
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This is a great thread on low code/no code platforms. We have a number of teams exercising OutSystems. They will be discussing their progress with our Technology Architecture Committee later this month. One of the things I hope to see is a clean and viable exit strategy. One of the advantages of popular ...

The Current Temperature of Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education

Posted By Louis King 09-29-2022 03:00:24 PM
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Hi folks, We are looking forward to our Itana call on the Current Temperature of Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education. Please check out the survey responses summarized in tomorrow's presentation deck. There is quite a bit to parse so we are advancing the deck prior to the meeting. It will take ...

The Current Temperature of Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education

Posted By Louis King 09-23-2022 02:02:27 PM
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Dear Itana, We are looking forward to hearing from you about how Enterprise Architecture is faring in your organization. In preparation for the next Itana call on Friday, October 30th, please take 3 minutes to fill out this survey. Data from the survey will be used to seed the conversation. The Current ...

RE: CRM Higher Education Case Study

Posted By Louis King 08-12-2022 03:24:40 PM
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Super. I'll take a look. Thanks so much. Cheers, -Louis Louis E. King Enterprise Architect 203.710.0787

CRM Higher Education Case Study

Posted By Louis King 08-12-2022 01:30:41 PM
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Folks, Itana, the Educause community group for enterprise, business, and technical architects in higher education, is developing a "New to Enterprise Architecture (New2EA)" program. As part of the curriculum, we are using a case study to drive parts of the interactive program. We think CRM is a great ...

RE: Application Portfolio Management - Technical Capability Model

Posted By Louis King 07-29-2022 09:25:27 AM
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James, That's fantastic to hear your progress. Great work. We just mapped a majority of our services and applications to the CAUDIT Model and it was very well received by the service teams. We do have an application CI with a metadata schema and taxonomy. I am not sure how to extract that from the ...

RE: Talking about risk and rewards with your organization

Posted By Louis King 04-11-2022 01:08:07 PM
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Mary, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I have a few reflections. We capture opportunity costs (which I understand as the topic since failing to invest in these opportunities has a risk) under risks in both our IT Project Charters and our IT Standards. Of course this means that we only capture ...