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The survey results from the Face2Face are in with 28 out of 40 people responding.  Nearly half the respondents (46 and 44 percent respectively) said that the Case Studies and the Data Management sessions were “Really Useful”.  36% found the overall meeting “Really Useful” and 46% found it “Very Useful”.  The success of the meeting is reflected by number of people who said that they will “Definitely Attend” (29%) or “Probably Attend” (45%)  the next meeting.

The general comments were very positive:

“I really enjoyed the meeting and I do expect to be more involved with the group now that I know how to participate. It would be good if we could figure out a way to extend the collaboration. Maybe 1.5 day or a longer day into the evening. Seems like we just got to the meat and it was time to leave… working on a shared agenda together would be useful to build community.”

“Really well done. The F2F’s let me put faces to e-mail addresses. The discussions were very good, although I don’t think we had enough time.”

“Thank you to all those responsible for pulling this group together. As a newbie, it is extremely helpful.”

“This was my first F2F and I felt like I was in a room of competent, compassionate, and professional architects. Well done!”

Many respondents said that they would like to participate in follow-on activities: 23% said they would definitely help out with Data Management with 46% answering “I would like to” help out.  Architecture Case Studies came is second with 58% saying they would either “Definitely…” or “would like to” help out.  The EA Selling Points came in third.  Other suggestions from the survey included:

1.  SOA implementation examples.
2.  Would like to work on a resource directory on Architecture for the wiki.
3.  Let’s discuss OUTREACH activities, to show how EA can make a difference in fulfilling our mission. Also, I’d like to see some discussion on how EA leaders can influence HR decision-making on staffing, in the context of role-development and growing the awareness of potential career-path trajectories surrounding the EA role, as well as those roles impacted by EA.

The ITANA Face2Face meeting also raised awareness of the various ways that people could get involved in ITANA.  50% of respondents didn’t know about the EDUCAUSE CG Meeting.  Expected participation in the other areas (Conference Calls, Email List, Wiki and Web) jumped significantly (35 to 50% for Conference Calls, 27 to 60% for email list and 24 to 54% for wiki and web).

Outreach with other groups was also mentioned (and is part of the follow-on activities):

“It might be useful to consider a series of JOINT MEETINGS with various EduCause constituent groups, such as the CIO group, or especially, the STRAT PLANNING group. We tend to focus solely on our technical universe, and would benefit immensely by getting more visible stake in the game by being at the table in ”strategic planning/discussion forum“ events. This joint-meeting approach would help us raise the visibility of ITANA in various contexts, and would enable further discussion on how we can help resolve a number of (mostly non-technical) issues that impact our Enterprise Architecture vision.”

Attendees asked for more Working Groups and Discussion Sections in future meetings.  Presentations and Open Discussion Time coming in second.  Other suggestions included:  lightning talks, evening sprints and BOFS,  having the meeting span dinner, un-conference time with guidance, “barcamp” style un-conference where participants pitch sessions then indicate which sessions they will attend, break-outs of 20 people or less.  The general theme is that people want to get their teeth into something while they are at the meeting.  As we said in session, “we’ve now talked about doing something, now we wish we had time to do something”.

When and were to hold the next meeting was quite mixed.  The most for “More Likely To Attend” went to Before/After Advanced CAMP again (64%) but that might be self selection.  Next up was CSG (33%) followed by EDUCAUSE (31%).  Interestingly, EDUCAUSE had the second most “Less Likely To Attend” votes (15%).  The least favorable selection “Scheduled by itself as a one day meeting” - 41% said they would be “Less Likely to attend”.  More research will be needed here as well as the input from our sponsors.

Thank you all for your participation in the meeting and the survey.  If you would like to see the full summary of the results, you can download them here:

ITANA Face2Face Survey Summary PDF

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Some notes and most of the presentations are now on the wiki: 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Face2Face+2008

Follow the links to the pages for each session to see the presentations and notes.

Did you attend the Face2Face?  Help flesh out the notes for the sessions on the wiki.

Thanks all for a great meeting.

Jim Phelps, Chair

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We have hit the maximum for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Registration is full at this time. You can still register but you will be wait listed. See you in Minneapolis next week.

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Registration now open.

NOTE: The hotel block closes May 18, 2008.

Please use the Registration Form to sign up. You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Space is limited so sign up early.

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Join with your peers in an intimate day-long meeting and discuss a rich agenda of current topics. See you in Minneapolis - Jim Phelps, Chair.

Date: June 18, 2008

Time: 9AM to 5PM

Location: Hilton Minneapolis

Hotel registration information will be sent upon receipt of your registration request.

Agenda:

NOTE: This conference is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Thank you sponsors.

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Registration now open.

Early Registration ends April 19, 2008.

Registration is limited to two people from each institution so you should talk amongst yourselves and figure out who will attend. Additional people will be allowed if space permits. Please use the Registration Form to sign up. You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Space is limited so sign up early.

Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Join with your peers in an intimate day-long meeting and discuss a rich agenda of current topics.  See you in Minneapolis - Jim Phelps, Chair.

Date: June 18, 2008

Time: 9AM to 5PM

Location: Hilton Minneapolis

Hotel registration information will be sent upon receipt of your registration request.

Agenda:

NOTE: This conference is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2. Thank you sponsors.

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Registration now open. Registration is limited to two people from each institution so you should talk amongst yourselves and figure out who will attend. Additional people will be allowed if space permits. Please use the Registration Form to sign up. You should receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. Space is limited so sign up early. See you in Minneapolis - Jim Phelps, Chair.Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 meeting. Join with your peers in an intimate day-long meeting and discuss a rich agenda of current topics. This conference is jointly sponsored by EDUCAUSE and Internet2.

Date: June 18, 2008

Time: 9AM to 5PM

Location: Hilton Minneapolis

Hotel registration information will be sent upon receipt of your registration request.  

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Agenda:

Time	Activity	Session Leader
9:00AM	Convene
9:00 to 9:15 AM	Welcome, logistics et al	Jim Phelps
9:15 to 10:15 AM	Session 1 - Case Studies: Architecture on Your Campus	Hebert Diaz-Flores
	This session will focus on Case Studies from several institutions including: Descriptions of ongoing Enterprise Architecture programs in your university. How, Who, What, and any impacts the program has had/is having on your IT environment. Descriptions of specific projects that have been significantly impacted (positively) by the Enterprise Architecture program.
10:15 to 10:30 AM	break
10:30 to Noon	Session 2 - Tools of the trade	Tom Barton
	We’ll showcase some of the tools, methodologies, artifacts, techniques, or tactics that we use to engender increased architectural coherence across the infrastructures and business & operational processes we’re connected with. The session will help us to think about the range of ways in which we might influence others by use of the tools with which we engage them.
Noon to 1:00PM	Lunch
1:00 to 2:15 PM	Session 3 - Artifacts and Templates	Jim Phelps
	We all create a variety of Artifacts for our work. Share those artifacts and templates that you have found exceptionally useful in your work. Do you have something that seemed like a great idea but failed miserably? Tell us about why it failed and what you learned.
2:15 to 2:30	break
2:30 to 3:30	Session 4 - Data Management Working Group	Klara Jelinkova
	There is a rich set of metadata and middleware needed to support the data classification we are starting to put in place for at least business applications. And the need will become even greater once we develop the same classifications for all of our institutional data including research data. Institutions seem to have a pretty good handle at least theoretically on business data. But once we start to cross over to other assets such as data associated with research, teaching and learning most IT organizations seem to give up. That type of data is viewed by most IT organizations in our institutions as someone else’s problem. However it is an important IT and security problem. With collaborative research taking place everywhere how do we classify the research data, protect it while the research is going on and then enable everyone to see after the research is published? How do we collaborate with the libraries on this one? How do we arrive at data management policies that cut across the whole institution? What are some of the examples of institutions doing it successfully today?
3:30 to 3:45	break
3:45 to 4:45	Session 5 - Security Architecture Hot Topics	Steve Kellogg
	There are many elements that make up security Architecture. The actual measures available and/or employed by the various institutions to secure our online applications make for interesting discussions. In this session, I plan to present on topics of what we are doing and are planning to do at Penn State with regards to identity management, access control, and securing endpoints. Others may present on topics of network security measures, multi-tier service provisioning, social engineering, computer forensics, logging and log analysis, their respective take on ID and access management, and anything else they feel is relevant to security architecture.
4:45 to 5:00	Closing Remarks	Jim Phelps

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ITANA’s next Face2Face is now set for June 18, 2008.

Location: Hilton Minneapolis.
Time: 9AM to 5PM
Agenda: TDB

For more information, join the ITANA mailing list. EDUCAUSE ITANA Constituent Group

Map to the venue: Hilton, Minneapolis

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We are planning and all-day Face 2 Face meeting for June 18, 2008. Stay tuned for more information like location and agenda.

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ITANA’s Constituent Group meeting was on Thursday at 4:55PM. We had approximately 40 people attend. Many of the attendees where from newly formed architecture groups.

Jim Phelps started out the meeting with a short presentation on ITANA, how it is supported and how you can participate. He reviewed some of the findings from the CIO Survey on EA (Enterprise Architecture).

There was active discussion around the role of Architecture in Business Process Improvement. Most CIOs stated that Business Process Improvement was where EA had the least impact on the enterprise. The reasons that were put forth included:

• EA is often seen as a “technology group” with no real input or understanding of the business side
• EA is often on the technology side and the changes actually need to come from the business side and be made by the business side.
• The business owners often want to re-implement the processes that they are currently doing not adopt new processes. We often make the technology match the current business process rather than change the business process.

There was discussion about the role of EA in business process change. This mostly focused on the fact that EA cannot implement the change but they can highlight the issue, document the current process and the improvements and work to lead the discussion around the change.

We also discussed the way that EA engages in the enterprise. Some institutions use EA as a gate function. Projects don’t get the go-ahead without EA’s approval or they are allowed to continue with contingencies. Other institutions use EA to guide projects and illuminate issues. Where does EA plug-in to the organization and the project / funding processes?

The Next Six Months:

Jim closed by asking what can/should ITANA work on over the next six months. The following were suggested:

1. Best Practices for EA in academia - what are the balancing points?
2. Definitions of the various roles
3. Principles that institutions have adopted and the process used to get them in place
4. Case Studies on EA in higher education
5. Use Cases involving EA
6. Matrix of tools - the value of each tool and when to apply
7. Analysis of various models for EA (the Federal model, TOGAF, et al). How do they relate to each other? Which bits are interesting or applicable to higher ed?
8. Frameworks

There was discussion of another full-day face to face meeting in 6 months - possibly at the Internet2 meeting in Arlington, VA.

Technorati Tags: EDUCAUSE, ITANA

ITANA’s Constituent Group meeting was on Thursday at 4:55PM. We had approximately 40 people attend. Many of the attendees were from newly formed architecture groups.

Jim Phelps started out the meeting with a short presentation on ITANA, how it is supported and how you can participate. He reviewed some of the findings from the CIO Survey on EA (Enterprise Architecture).

There was active discussion around the role of Architecture in Business Process Improvement. Most CIOs stated that Business Process Improvement was where EA had the least impact on the enterprise. The reasons that were put forth included:

• EA is often seen as a “technology group” with no real input or understanding of the business side
• EA is often on the technology side and the changes actually need to come from the business side and be made by the business side.
• The business owners often want to re-implement the processes that they are currently doing not adopt new processes. We often make the technology match the current business process rather than change the business process.

There was discussion about the role of EA in business process change. This mostly focused on the fact that EA cannot implement the change but they can highlight the issue, document the current process and the improvements and work to lead the discussion around the change.

We also discussed the way that EA engages in the enterprise. Some institutions use EA as a gate function. Projects don’t get the go-ahead without EA’s approval or they are allowed to continue with contingencies. Other institutions use EA to guide projects and illuminate issues. Where does EA plug-in to the organization and the project / funding processes?

The Next Six Months:

Jim closed by asking what can/should ITANA work on over the next six months. The following were suggested:

1. Best Practices for EA in academia - what are the balancing points?
2. Definitions of the various roles
3. Principles that institutions have adopted and the process used to get them in place
4. Case Studies on EA in higher education
5. Use Cases involving EA
6. Matrix of tools - the value of each tool and when to apply
7. Analysis of various models for EA (the Federal model, TOGAF, et al). How do they relate to each other? Which bits are interesting or applicable to higher ed?
8. Frameworks

There was discussion of another full-day face to face meeting in 6 months - possibly at the Internet2 meeting in Arlington, VA.