Architecture Workshop Next Week

Hi!

Next week I journey to Chicago to attend an Enterprise Architecture workshop presented by Bredemeyer Consulting. I am very excited about this opportunity and look forward to the insight it will give us to the challenges ahead.

More on the workshop can be found here.

The obvious challenges at this part, are the same challenges we have faced with many of our larger enterprise projects at Saint Louis University including Banner and Billiken Information Shield (an enterprise LAN consolidation and desktop management project). By definition Enterprise Architecture efforts cross organizational and political boundaries and challenge the organization to examine whether our direction is in alignment with current mission and business strategies.

During the workshop there will be an assessment of whether our organization (assuming we mean SLU) meet critical success factors including whether we have a clear business vision and strategic objectives, have an understanding of our core competencies, and how well our EA charter relates to the current state of the architecture.

This should be fun.

Cheers for now.

jh