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Dates
TiAC, The Information Architect’s Cooperative, announces its program for
2001. The
group will meet three times:
Winter Meeting
Monday, January 29th and Tuesday, January 30th
San Diego, California
Spring/Summer Meeting
Monday, June 25th & Tuesday, June 26th
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Fall Meeting
Monday, October 1st & Tuesday, October 2nd
Richmond, Virginia
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
 | Application 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. This reality needs to be reflected in an application
architecture that is becoming increasingly complex. |
| Repositories. Moving towards model-based
design has been an idea that has returned from time to time. Central to
that concept is the use of repositories for managing data, meta-data, and
other components. However, this is a journey often started but
rarely finished. Is the technology eventually reaching a point where
it delivers on its promise? And, what have companies learned about the
hazards and opportunities in implementing this mischievous technology? |
| 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
definition 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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