This coming Tuesday evening I’m going to be delivering my “Case Studies of Enterprise Architecture” presentation in Manchester, at a meeting hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Manchester Network and jointly with the BCS Manchester branch.
For more information the event is advertised both with the IET and BCS. The core details are:
- Date: 17 March 2009
- Time: 18:00 Refreshments / 18:30 Start
- Location: Conference Room 6, The Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB.
- Cost: Free, open to all (including non-members of the IET or BCS), no registration required.
The case studies presented explore my experiences with Enterprise Architecture in three major customer engagements. They include an Enterprise Architecture team which led its company into a £70+ million ‘pitfall’; the use of Enterprise Architecture to define a Service Oriented Architecture; and an example of how much Enterprise Architecture is about achieving the proper governance model.
Key takeaways:
- Enterprise Architecture best practices drawn from multiple engagements.
- How to use good governance to avoid and limit the ‘Ivory Tower’ syndrome.
- How to combine Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture to deliver sustainable Transformation.
Although given the current downturn I’ll probably also go into some of the issues facing EA programmes due to the credit crunch and what can be done to ensure that they continue to receive executive sponsorship and funding.
Happy to answer any and all questions; please consider that I’ll be attempting to condense three major and very large scale Enterprise Architecture case studies into a talk lasting an hour and a half or so, therefore I will definitely be around to speak with afterwards.
The nice people at the IET have also created a flyer for the event, which is available here.
And I’d just like to say ‘Many Thanks’ to Arvind Sud (of Sun) for originally helping to organise this event with the Engineering, Management and Manufacturing Technical Group of the IET and especially for co-ordinating the initial joint participation of both the IET and the BCS at this meeting.
Links to the IET and BCS pages for the event: