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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…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

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…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

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:…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

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…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: Great Expectations: Ready to Move the Dial in the New IT Landscape

This presentation was given by Angela Yochem, a Business Information Executive with Dell. Some trends: Reduction in size of IT. Move from centralized, global IT to a more decentralized model. Successful response to these trends require a strong, empowered EA team. Many…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

Architecture Fit and Fitness

In discussing how enterprise architecture supports merger, acquisition, partnership, and other evaluation opportunities with some attendees at the Troux 2011 conference this morning, I used two terms: fit and fitness. Fit is how well things align between the two companies/products. for example,…

• March 24, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: Industry Perspective: Great Performances

Moderator: George Paras, A&G Editor-in-chief Panelists: Mike J. Walker, Principal Architect with Microsoft Aleks Buterman, Founder, SenseAgility Tim Westbrock, Managing Director EAdirections Paul Preiss, CEO, IASA This was a certainly a lively panel, and I don’t envy George’s task of trying to…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: EA, ITSM, PPM, and CMDB Acronym Soup

This was a panel discussion with representatives from Forrester (I believe), Troux, HP, and CA. The text below is my attempt to capture the points made by the speakers, and do not necessarily constitute my own opinions on these subjects. I didn’t…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: A Step-by-Step Approach to Building EA Value at AMD

Tannia Dobbins, IT Relationship Manager from Advanced Micro Devices, gave this presentation. She walked through some of the key drivers behind enterprise architecture over the past 5 years at AMD, initially focused on supporting acquisitions and divestitures, moving into reducing complexity and…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: Let’s Talk About Results

In this session, David Hood, CEO of Troux, talked about Troux’s approach to the market. He began by presenting “Zucca’s Equations”: W2A: Where we are W3TG: Where we want to go HW(GT)2: How are we going to get there He called out…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: Investing for the Future through Strategy and Architecture at Cisco Systems

Imran Qayyum, an EA for Cisco, was the presenter for this session. They used the Proact BOST framework (Business Operations Systems and Technology) to get started, providing an industry specific reference model. Imran’s team is responsible for development services, which covers all…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske

Troux 2011: Technology-Enabled Health Care

Sandra McCoy, Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture with Kaiser Permanente, gave this talk, subtitled as “Architecting Standardization in a Complex Healthcare Organization.” She mentioned that the challenges her team faces are that architects would like to work in a nice orderly fashion,…

• March 23, 2011
• Todd Biske