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Investigative Architecture – Understanding Systems in a Business Context
The Open Group Conference, San Francisco. A foundational skill for an architect is the capability to rapidly assess and document “as is” and proposed architecture and communicate clearly to business partners. A carefully scoped and formal diagram is a powerful vehicle for clear communication. A specific diagram – the system context view – provides a rapid method to describe a solution in business language. This instructional presentation provides concrete techniques and structured rules of thumb to guide the development of business context views at both the enterprise and solution level.
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Investigative Architecture – The Data Context Diagram
The Open Group Conference, Austin. A foundational skill for an architect is the capability to rapidly assess and document “as is” and proposed solution architectures using diagrams. Scoping a diagram according to different needs is the most critical factor to successful visual communication. This instructional session presents concrete techniques and structured rules of thumb to depict data and information flow both at the enterprise and solution level using the UML.
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Mentoring – Nurturing Your Architecture Practice
The Open Group Conference, Boston. 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.
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Investigative Architecture – The Conceptual Diagram
The Open Group Conference, Toronto. Formal UML-based notation provides a powerful tool for architecture design and communication. There is also a compelling need for crisp, clear, and marketing-friendly architecture diagrams for use in executive presentations. The creation of polished, clear and well-scoped renditions of an architecture can be more art than science, so we propose a diagram that balances the appropriate level of formality for accuracy with enough flexibility for targeted marketing. This same view also provides a clear “at a glance” representation of an architecture, setting the scope for more detailed, formal views.