Dan Hughes is a principal consultant at Systems Flow, Inc., where he helps organizations dramatically improve their competitive advantage through the practical, effective application of best practices in enterprise architecture and software development. He is currently engagement lead at Citizens Bank where he guided the launch of the enterprise architecture practice and is now the lead architect for Citizens Bank's Basel II implementation.

Dan has 16 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 for clients in industries ranging from industrial automation to banking and insurance. He maintains a blog on software engineering at http://www.xengineering.com.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Presentation

Bootstrapping Enterprise Standards - A Real World Approach
The value of basing activities within an enterprise on standards is undeniable, but how does one move a large enterprise to a standards-based approach? An existing enterprise does not provide a "clean slate" for standards, which creates both challenges and benefits - existing "enterprise memory" must be balanced with moving toward industry best practices. Also critical is avoiding the pitfall of "pie in the sky architecture" and instead leveraging standards for goal-oriented and concrete benefits. This presentation will discuss practical strategies for making the transition to standards based architecture, addressing key topics around establishing, governing, and maintaining standards. A case study of implementing standards at a large financial institution will provide concrete examples of challenges faced and lessons learned.

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