Tweets from Troux 2011 conference, day 2

Tweets and links from the second (and final) day of the Troux users (enterprise-architecture) conference in Austin, Texas, on 23-24 March 2011 – once again courtesy of Brenda Michelson, Todd Biske, Mike Walker, Aleks Buterman and others in a very active Tweet-active band of enterprise-architecture folks.
As on the previous post, I’ve edited slightly to remove most of the #Troux2011 and […]

Tweets from Troux 2011 conference: day 1

Courtesy of a very active band of Tweeters – including Brenda Michelson, Todd Biske, Mike Walker and Aleks Buterman, we have a fairly comprehensive description of what’s been going on at the Troux users (enterprise-architecture) conference in Austin, Texas, on 23-24 March 2011.
I’ve edited slightly to remove most of the #Troux2011 and #entarch hash-tags; I’ve […]

Troux 2011: Leaders Perspective: Great Conductors

Panel discussion. Panelists: Eric Christian, Director of Global Architecture Security at Cummins Sandy McCoy, Executive Director, Business Architecture, Kaiser Permanente Michael Balay, AVP, Technology & Operations, Enterprise Architecture, MetLife Moderator: George Paras Q: Inspiring an EA team is a challenging activity. If you had one bit of advice to an aspiring EA leader, what would […]

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Troux 2011: Journey to the Business Side of Enterprise Architecture at USAA

Speaker: Michael Pemberton, Enterprise Architect and USAA USAA has had an enterprise architecture practice on the technology side and is now establishing a business architecture practice. First point: Why did USAA take the journey? They realized that without a business-driven, integrated enterprise architecture, it would be like driving without a map. Their challenge was that […]

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Troux 2011: Up Leveling Your EA Practice, Program by Program

This was a continuation of the previous panel discussion. Speakers were: Sean Dwyer, Northwestern Mutual Jennifer Pfaff, Jacobs Engineering J-P Renaud, Jacobs Engineering Eivind Nilson, Liberty Mutual Moderator: Chuck Keffer, Troux Q: Where are you in rolling out your current effort? Sean: They are trying to roll out the ability to do assessments of infrastructure, […]

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Troux 2011: Building the Business Case for EA

This was a panel discussion, consisting of: Sean Dwyer, Northwestern Mutual Jennifer Pfaff, Jacobs Engineering J-P Renaud, Jacobs Engineering Eivind Nilson, Liberty Mutual Moderator: Chuck Keffer, Troux Context: Today’s reality for the global 2000 CIO. The average tenure is 18 months. They need to get started fast and work fast. They face shrinking budgets, rising […]

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Troux 2011: Delivering Business Value with Enterprise Architecture

This presentation was given by Richard J. Reese, VP of Enterprise Architecture for Discover Financial Services. He started by showing some of the Discover “Peggy” commercials (look them up on YouTube, they’re pretty funny) and emphasized that Discover is known for their cash back programs and their customer service. EA resource allocation at Discover is […]

Good Vibes and “Love” for EA at Troux Conference

It was a day of music, intense networking and joint learning with a focus on delivering rapid results from EA – quickly. The site: the Austin Four Seasons hotel, as more than 350 Troux customers and industry experts shared their passion for forg…

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