Articles in the Academia Category

Architecture and finding the path Architecture and finding the path
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, JimPhelps, Work on 11 March 2010

The growing interdependency of our systems is driving us from a simple environment towards a highly complex environment. This is leading to a strategy of choosing from many good solutions where no perfect solution is obtainable. Enterprise Architecture (and the other architecture practices) can help sort those good solutions and help make sure the choice you make is along the path to desired future state.

SOA – Maturity is Key Presentation, EDUCAUSE Enteprise 2009 SOA – Maturity is Key Presentation, EDUCAUSE Enteprise 2009
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, JimPhelps, Presentations, SOA, Work on 21 May 2009

My presentation on SOA in the Enterprise – Maturity is Key has been posted in a couple of places.
First, on the EDUCAUSE site:
EDUCAUSE – Enterprise 2009 Site
and at Slideshare.net:
Soa Maturity is the Key
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Blue Sky to Ground part 1 Blue Sky to Ground part 1
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, JimPhelps, Work on 23 January 2009

 
 
I’ve been working with our CIO on the I.T. strategic planning initiative.  At the same time, I’ve been working with the Technical Directors and Operational Directors on planning at the technology level.  They have been creating a map of what technologies are used to support our services.  I’ve had my head in the blue sky [...]

Advanced CAMP – Part 2
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, SOA, Work on 19 June 2008

Dave Gimpl:  Computing as a Service
Infrastructure for vaporware.  They are working on the infrastructure that enables cloud-computing.
Challenges in the data center:  rising costs of the operations, the explosion of data, the difficulty of deploying new application and services, the difficulty in managing complex virtual machine systems.  When you map the business processes, they map [...]

Advanced CAMP – Registering, Discovering and Using Distributed Services Part1
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, SOA, Work on 19 June 2008

R.L. Bob doing the introduction: 
Advanced CAMP could mean to some people the advanced topics beyond just the basics.  Bob likes to think of it as the Advance Camp out in the wilderness where you are more likely to get caught in a blizzard, get shot and generally face the wilderness.
The theme that came out [...]

Measuring the value of projects
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 6 February 2008

Jason Uppal of Quickresponse gave a talk on Building Enterprise Architects at the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Summit. He mentioned that Toyota judges project success based on
three corporate objectives:
Profit from the Program
Market Share
Learning
These facets got me thinking about our post project reviews. We tend to measure our projects on whether or not [...]

SOA – Bumps in the Roadmap
Posted in Academia, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 15 November 2007

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some time ago, I was on the circuit talking about Service Oriented Architecture and a roadmap for moving forward. Since then, we have had many false starts and hit many snags along the path. [...]

Doris Kearns Goodwin on Leadership
Posted in Academia, General, IT Architecture, ITANA, Work on 24 October 2007

Doris Kearns Goodwin opened the EDUCAUSE general meeting this morning, recounting her years as an intern in the Johnson White House and talking about Abraham Lincoln. She received a standing ovation at the end of her talk – the first that I have ever seen at EDUCAUSE.
Her talk was full of great stories [...]

.edu as an underground?
Posted in Academia, Work, random stuff on 8 October 2007

Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com) has an article they are running called Discover the .EDU Underground

Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources.

Interesting list of finds about Art, Science, Space, Humanities, Photography, History and everything. Interesting that learning about the web [...]

AACRAO Identity and Access Management 2007
Posted in Academia, Presentations, Work on 27 July 2007

Karen Hanson (Assistant Registrar) and I ran a half-day workshop at the AACRAO Technology Conference on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the Registrar’s role in IAM.   We had a great time even though the session was Sunday at 8AM.   The slides are here:  AACRAO 2007 IDM Slides
We had a mix of people [...]