Professionalizing the Discipline of EA
Host: Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

2.00 - 2.45 The Need to Professionalize the Discipline of EA As Enterprise Architects assume more and more responsibility for the business success of enterprises, it is becoming vital that there is a high level of confidence in their abilities and in the recommendations that they make. There needs to be the same level of trust that an enterprise has in its legal and financial advisors. In those disciplines, professional bodies create and enforce codes of practice covering levels of knowledge, skills, conduct, ethics and the general evolution of the discipline. We need to do the same. To achieve such a Enterprise Architecture Profession, we need to take an architectural approach. That is what we do best. We need to identify all those who have an interest in and all those who would benefit from the existence of such a professional body. We need to identify and describe the building blocks of such a profession and how they would interwork to achieve our objectives. Also we need to create a roadmap for the way ahead. Chris Greenslade, Director & Principal Consultant, CLARS, UK Chris is currently Chair of The Open Group's Supplier Council and a member of the Specification Authority that specifies the policies, processes and conformance criteria of the ITAC program. He was a member of the first ever ITAC Certification Review Board and many subsequent ones at Levels 1, 2 and 3.

2.45 - 3.30 EA Education & Research in Higher Education Dr. Brian Cameron, Professor of Practice and Director of the Enterprise Architecture Initiative, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University  Within the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Brian Cameron works with a wide portfolio of companies on a variety of consulting engagements, ranging from systems integration projects to enterprise architecture planning and design. Through his academic work, Cameron has consulted with organizations such as Avaya, AT&T Wireless, Raytheon, Accenture, Oracle, EMC Corp., NSA, U.S. Marine Corps, The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and many others. His primary research and consulting interests include enterprise architecture, enterprise systems integration, information management and storage, and the use of simulations and gaming in education.  The main focus areas for his teaching efforts are on senior-level capstone enterprise integration, enterprise architecture, and information technology consulting & storage architecture courses.  Dr. Cameron is currently developing new curricular materials for enterprise integration (through funding from NSF) including a textbook to be published by Wiley & Sons Publishing.   He has also designed and taught executive education sessions for senior IT executives.  Session topics include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Strategic Alignment of IT & Business Strategies, IT Governance, and IT Portfolio Management. Dr. Cameron currently leads corporately funded research efforts in the following areas:  service-oriented architecture and business process modeling, risk analysis and management of enterprise systems integration projects, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation best practices, enterprise storage & information management architecture design, and performance measurement for Enterprise Architecture.

3.30 - 4.00 Break

4.40 - 5.20 Open "Birds of a Feather" Session: Professionalizing the Discipline of EA Host: Len Fehskens, VP Skills and Capabilities, The Open Group Len Fehskens is responsible for all activities relating to enterprise architecture 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.

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