Presenter

Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group

Len Fehskens is Vice President Skills and Capabilities at The Open Group. He is responsible for all activities relating to enterprise architecture at The Open Group, including AOGEA, TOGAF™ and the Architecture Forum.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Len led the Worldwide Architecture Profession Office for HP Services at Hewlett-Packard. He majored in Computer Science at MIT, and has almost 40 years of experience in the IT business as both an individual contributor and a manager, within both product engineering and services business units.

Len has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General Corporation, Prime Computer, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. He is the lead inventor on six software patents on the object oriented management of distributed systems and was recently TOGAF 8 certified.

Presentation 1

Enterprise Architecture a Solution at a Time
Developing an Enterprise Architecture can seem like a daunting effort, and everyone has heard stories about big thick documents that just sit on a shelf and gather dust while things get worse.  Is it possible to ease into an enterprise architecture, and start delivering real business value sooner rather than later?  It is, and the way to do it is to grow your enterprise architecture business solution by business solution.  

Presentation 2

Extending Enterprise Architecture to the Enterprise
Most thinking about IT architecture as a discipline has been shaped by the ideas of the software architecture community, which in turn grew out of the software engineering and structured programming initiatives of the late '60s and early '70s.  Increasingly, though, IT architecture is less about programs and more about solutions and enterprises, of which software is only a part.  Does this shift in the focus of IT architecture require a corresponding shift in the way we think about architecture?  Many practicing solution and enterprise architects believe it does, and this session will re-examine the role of architecture from this perspective.