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Dates
TiAC, The Information Architect’s Cooperative, announces its program for
2000. The
group will meet three times:
Winter Meeting
Monday, February 8th and Tuesday, February 9th
San Antonio, Texas
Spring/Summer Meeting
Monday, June 21st & Tuesday, June 22nd
Deer Valley, Utah
Fall Meeting
Monday, October 18th & Tuesday, October 19th
Chicago, Illinois
Meetings begin with a working breakfast at 8 o’clock on both Monday
and Tuesday, and continue until 5 o’clock on both days. There are mid-morning and
mid-afternoon breaks and a working lunch.
The first day is largely devoted to member presentations and discussion.
The formal agenda concludes at 5 o’clock, then continues informally at dinner.
Discussions are more general on the second day. Topics currently being discussed are
listed below.
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Current Round Table Discussion Topics
 | Channel Architecture: Enterprise Architecture has
focused on the organization of the IT resources of a single entity.
With the growing importance of B2B and B2C technologies relationships
with suppliers, customers, and competitors are central to the developing
architecture. How are companies responding to this new challenge? |
| Fall out from Y2K. How long will the gravy
train continue? Under the threat of a catastrophic meltdown business have
funded major investments in IT. With the deadline passed will
investment continue to create new B2B architectures |
| Aligning IT with the business: A number of companies have been
working at this. It seems that this "political" issue continues to haunt most
groups. How do you get educated support for an architecture, and once you have it, how do
you keep it? This was on the list last year; some things never change. |
| Architecting: Understanding the Role, Aptitude, Skills and Training. We
continue our investigation of this area looking for best practices
wherever we can find them. |
| Effective Scope: Companies are not consistent in
how they define enterprise architecture. Some have a minimal
defininition focused on standards and governance processes. Other
companies have interventionist architecture groups that are intimately
engaged in shaping the applications and infrastructure. Why do
companies choose the form of architecture group that they do and does it
make a difference?
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Sample Agenda
| Monday |
| 8:00 |
The meeting will begin with a working breakfast.
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| 8:00 - 9:00 |
TiAC Status and Brief Updates
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| 8:30 - 12:30 |
Company Presentations & Discussion (includes lunch)
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| 1:00 - 3:00 |
Company Presentations (continued)
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| 3:00 - 5:00 |
Architecture Focus: discussion of research or investigation in the
practice of architecture
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| 6:30 |
Dinner
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| Tuesday |
8:00 - 8:00 |
The meeting will begin with a working breakfast.
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| 8:30 - 11:00 |
Guest Speaker
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| 11:00 – 3:30 |
Company Discussions
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| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Summary & Close
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