July 19-23, 2010 – Boston, Massachusetts
The Open Group Boston 2010 Conference
We’re excited to be on the agenda of the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects meeting at Open Group Boston this July! We’ll present Systems Flow’s highly successful approach to architect mentoring: “Mentoring: Nurturing Your Architecture Practice”
Synopsis: An enterprise architecture practice is only as good as the people in it. Establishing a small group of talented practicing architects is only the first step. To scale a team upward requires a repeatable approach to recruiting, mentoring and managing people in the architecture discipline. It is even more crucial as Enterprise Architecture moves away into a specialized field of its own apart from its software engineering roots – with a distinct career path and business focus.Systems Flow will share the successes we have enjoyed – and challenges we have faced – in our own recruitment and mentoring process, which has been honed through iterative trial and error over many years.
- July 20-22, 2009 – Toronto, ON Canada
The Open Group
23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference“Investigative Architecture – The Conceptual Diagram”
This instructional session presents concrete, usable techniques and structured ground rules to make sense of your technology enterprise for a non-technical, executive-level audience. We will walk through a case study in order to illustrate the techniques, and present strategies to map to and from more detailed formal work products.
- July 22, 2008 – Chicago, IL USA
The Open Group
19th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference“Bootstrapping Enterprise Standards – A Real World Approach”
This presentation will discuss practical strategies for making the transition to standards based architecture, addressing key topics around establishing, governing, and maintaining standards. A case study of implementing standards at a large financial institution will provide concrete examples of challenges faced and lessons learned.
- July 22, 2008 – Chicago, IL USA
The Open Group
19th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference“Investigative Architecture – Making Sense of Your Enterprise”
This session presents concrete techniques and structured rules of thumb to make sense of your technology enterprise. We will walk through a case study in order to illustrate the techniques.
- July 23-25, 2007 – Austin, TX USA
The Open Group
15th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference“A Lightweight Approach to Service Design Specifications”
Somewhere between “not enough” and “too much” lies the correct scope of artifacts documenting service designs. This presentation will explore a service design methodology that is based on design best practices, and implemented and refined within the SOA organization of a large enterprise. Content, format, and a “how to” approach will be discussed, as well as challenges and strategies for handling them.
- July 17-19, 2006 – Miami, FL USA
The Open Group
IT Architecture Practitioners Conference“Leveraging UML as a Standard Notation for Enterprise Architecture”
A discussion of the benefits of adopting UML as a standard notation for architecture diagrams. Additional topics will include a proposed set of UML notations for specific architecture views, suggested standards and guidelines, and real-world experiences introducing notational standards into organizations with little or no modeling consistency.