4:45 - 5:30
Mentoring: Nurturing Your Architecture Practice
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.
Dan Hughes, Principal Consultant, Systems Flow, Inc.
 Dan Hughes is a principal consultant at Systems Flow, Inc. (http://sysflow.com), where he leads the technology services practice, helping organizations dramatically improve their competitive advantage through practical, effective application of best practices in enterprise architecture and software development.
He has 18 years of software engineering experience spanning a broad range of technologies and techniques. Startup to enterprise, he has launched, managed, and executed all aspects of both product and enterprise life cycle, delivering complex, enterprise-scale architectures for clients in the public and private sector, in industries ranging from banking and insurance to international development.
Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
Suresh Done, is the Co-Founder and Chairman of AOGEA Michigan Chapter. Suresh led AOGEA Michigan Chapter to a great success, which is now the largest AOGEA Chapter in the world. He is actively involved in driving the research activities within the chapter.
