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Can anyone enroll? Yes,
the class is an open enrollment workshop, but we limit the class size. The Enterprise Architecture class is targeted at practicing
enterprise architects and aspiring enterprise architects, and managers of
enterprise architecture teams, including CTO's and CIO's.
What does the Enterprise Architecture Workshop
cover?
See the class
overview.
Does the class apply to
other architecture disciplines? The Enterprise Architecture Workshop, as the name implies, focuses on
enterprise architecture, covering the disciplines of Business
Architecture, Enterprise Applications Architecture, Enterprise Technology
(or Infrastructure) Architecture, and Enterprise Information (or Data)
Architecture, from the point of view of enterprise architecture.
Is the class full?
This class is full. Please let us know if you would like us to put you on the wait
list in case someone cancels.
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What is the value of
this class? Our approach to Enterprise Architecture
starts with creating a firm foundation in Architecture
Strategy that is aligned with the business strategy. We advocate
creating a Business
Capabilities Architecture, as the cornerstone to Enterprise
Architecture. This supports the business strategy process as well as the
Enterprise Architecture process. Now business leaders can focus on what
business capabilities are key to achieving strategic objectives, and
enterprise architects can focus on creating and enhancing business
capabilities identified by the business strategy as critical priorities.
This, together with the Minimalist Architecture Principle, ensures that
the Enterprise Architecture is focused where it will make the most
significant impact on business success. This helps the Enterprise
Architecture team focus on achievable, yet highly strategic, objectives.
Hundreds of very talented and
experienced architects have taken our classes. They find our classes both
inspiring and practical, giving them solid techniques and concepts to
apply on the job to make their architectures, and their business, more
successful. Even the most experienced architects consistently
identify key steps that they have missed on their
architecting projects. They also identify much that they have been doing
right, and value this confirmation of their use of best practice. Doing
the right steps, in the right order, to the right extent, with good
techniques and sound principles, saves architects time and makes them more
effective. Yes, there is some strength to the argument that architecting
skills are learned from experience--but the lesson is always much less
costly when it is from someone else's experience! We have focused
exclusively on software architectures, effective architectural practice,
and architecture teaching since 1995, and arguably lead the industry in
synthesizing architecture experience into our approach to architecture and
our training classes.
Who else should take this
class? We firmly believe that individuals can bring about significant
organizational change, but it takes effort and attention. It would behoove
your team to focus this leadership and effort on making the architecture
successful, rather than on figuring out a common team approach to creating
the architecture! Having the entire team take the class is obviously the
most effective way to establish a solid foundation of architecture
concepts and practice.
Please let others know about
this workshop--you can email this page using the "File/Send/Page by Email"
option on Internet Explorer!
Workshop Logistics
What is the location for the workshop? The workshop will
be held at the Norris
Conference Center in Houston. There are hotels within a few blocks of
the conference center.
Norris Conference Centers
- Houston
9990 Richmond Ave., South Bldg., Ste. 102
Houston, TX 77042
Phone: (713) 780-9300 Fax:
(713) 780-9490
When does the class
start and end? We will begin at 8:30am and end at 5:00pm each day. We serve lunch,
and morning and afternoon snacks.
How do I enroll? Please fill out
our online enrollment
form. We will contact you to
arrange payment. Please note that payment is required to complete your
registration before we can confirm your place in the class.
Where
should I stay?
The Norris Convention Center staff recommended the
following as hotels in
reasonable proximity to the Convention Center:
- Adam's Mark Hotel, 2900 Briarpark Dr. at
Westheimer. Tel: 1-713-978-7400
- Hilton Houston Westchase and Towers, 9999
Westheimer Rd. Tel:
1-713-974-1000
Courtyard by Marriott, 9975 Westheimer Rd. Tel:
1-713-784-3003
Residence Inn by Marriott, 9965 Westheimer Rd.
Tel: 1-713-974-5454
Where should
I park?
Area
Information
What
is there to do in the area? TBD.
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