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This is a fun, useful
class. It is not just one that encourages and inspires you, but one that actually
equips you to be even more effective than you are. If you were on the
management track, you could take executive leadership and other extension
classes at top universities or within your own corporation. But if you're
an architect looking for an accelerated development program, our
architecting process class (Enterprise or Software) and this Architect
Skills class together provide you a means to "raise your personal
bar"--set new expectations for yourself, and help you get there.
Can anyone enroll? Yes,
the class is an open enrollment workshop. Architects from a variety of
domains find the class helpful, including enterprise architects, solution
architects, portfolio architects, system architects, application
architects, software architects, infrastructure or technology architects,
etc. The common denominator is talent, aspiration, and a focus on
architecture.
Our audience comprises
architects, architecture program managers and CIO's or
CTO's who actively scan for better ways to do things and passionately
strive for higher levels of achievement. You can expect your peers in the
class to be very high caliber and you will be learning as much from your
team members as from your instructors. We encourage you to
enroll
now.
What does the Role of the Architect Workshop
cover? This workshop helps you build the skills you need to be a
successful architect. In each area of competency, we provide you with a
personal assessment instrument so that you can decide where you need to
improve, and then we cover techniques and conceptual tools to help you
improve in that domain of competency. We also provides pointers for you to
follow up on after the class.
For more on our Architect Competency
Framework, please see our paper on the Role
of the Architect and the Architect
Competency Elaborations on our Papers and
Downloads page. The Cutter Consortium EA Executive Report titled
"What it Takes to be a Great Enterprise Architect" will also give you
insight into how we think about the architect role. That report leverages tables and
personal assessment tools we developed for this class. Naturally, this
3-day class goes far beyond the executive report. Cutter is running a
promotion, and you can download this report free
at
http://www.cutter.com/offers/greatarchitect.html.
For more on what the class
covers, see the workshop
description.
Is the class full?
There are 13 places left open.
Enroll
now to avoid missing the class.
Help My
Manager
Decide
What is the value of
this class? A successful architecture forms the platform
for strategic advantage. By contrast, the lack of architecture bonds the
organization inescapably to its past. Our legacy is a tortuously tangled
slew of haphazard systems born of a time of amazing wizardry but little
system discipline. These legacy systems are expensive and hard to change,
but replacing them threatens the very "life" of the
organization. To break the chains of our corporate legacy and build
systems that fit the environment, and adapt with the environment as it
changes, we need superbly talented architects. Just architecting adaptive
systems requires a lot of our architects, but our architects have, at the
same time, to lead the organization into a new era of system thinking and
system discipline and this requires an even greater set of talents and repertoire
of skills.
We understand the
multifaceted nature of the challenge, and this workshop is designed to
help architects see where they have strengths and how to build on them,
and where they have gaps and how to address them.
Literally thousands of very talented and
experienced architects and tech leads have taken our classes. Even the most experienced architects consistently
identify important insights and lessons that the class has brought to
them. We use some lecture to cover concepts and conceptual models to
help organize and expand knowledge and insight, but our emphasis is on
stories shared by peer architects
and the instructor to expose hard-won lessons, as well as large group,
team and individual exercises to learn techniques and practice skills.
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 enterprise and 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? Anyone who manages architects, or who aspires to be an
architect, will find this class useful. But the main target
audience is the practicing architect.
Please let others know about
this workshop! You will be more successful, if you enroll other
architects to help you build a strong architecture culture within your
organization. And your organization will build strategic advantage by
investing in a critical strategic asset, its architects.
Workshop Logistics
What is the location for the
workshop? TBD When does the class
start and end? We
usually begin our classes at 8:30am and generally end at 5pm. We serve lunch,
and morning and afternoon snacks. On the last day, we try to end by 4pm.
How do I enroll? Please fill out
our online enrollment form to
register for the class. We will contact you for payment information, and
your registration will be complete once payment is made.
Where
should I stay? tbd
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