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	<title>Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education &#187; it governance</title>
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	<description>a practical approach by Leo de Sousa</description>
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		<title>Do you need to create an As-Is State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a post by Adrian Grigoriu responding to Gartner&#8217;s Philip Allega&#8217;s post Applying EA to Your Life .  Within the post about how EA might be able to help plan our lives, Philip then brings up an regular EA debate &#8220;Do you start with the Current State?&#8221;  Actually, Philip says don&#8217;t do it. [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/04/how-deep-do-you-go/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How deep do you go?'>How deep do you go?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/08/ea-archivist-or-activist-delivering-value-is-the-key/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: EA Archivist or Activist? Delivering Value is the Key'>EA Archivist or Activist? Delivering Value is the Key</a></li>
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		<title>EA Archivist or Activist? Delivering Value is the Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Biske posted a summary of a conversation he had with Mike Rollings,  Brenda Michelson, Chris Bird and others. They were discussing the future of Enterprise Architecture. A theme that emerged from their talks focused on whether your practice is defined by being an archivist (passive) or an activist (active).  Here is the conversation (from [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/adaptive-leadership-in-ea/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Adaptive Leadership in EA'>Adaptive Leadership in EA</a></li>
<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/02/enterprise-architects-what-attributes-do-you-look-for/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Enterprise Architects &#8211; What attributes do you look for?'>Enterprise Architects &#8211; What attributes do you look for?</a></li>
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		<title>SGHE Summit &#8211; An Efficient Means for IT Planning</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2010/04/sghe-summit-an-efficient-means-for-it-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Efficient Means for IT Planning &#8211; Aims College Andria Brabo &#8211; andria.brabo@aims.edu, Dr Gary Bardsley gary.bardsley@aims.edu used project portfolio planning process &#8211; using Word Docs and a Wiki to coordinate projects across a small IT shop of 26 people. Challenges lack of communication staff turnover project managers making promises without checking with implementers cross [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/04/sghe-summit-project-horizon-technical-overview/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: SGHE Summit &#8211; Project Horizon Technical Overview'>SGHE Summit &#8211; Project Horizon Technical Overview</a></li>
<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/04/sghe-summit-electronic-banner-access-request-ebar-workflow/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: SGHE Summit &#8211; Electronic Banner Access Request (eBAR) Workflow'>SGHE Summit &#8211; Electronic Banner Access Request (eBAR) Workflow</a></li>
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		<title>Building an EA Practice &#8211; what is your process?</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/11/building-an-ea-practice-what-is-your-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there has been several blog posts discussing what should and should not be done when building an EA practice.  I thought I would review how we built our EA practice in our higher education organization and compare it to some of the other approaches.  I have yet to see one definintive approach for all [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/08/do-you-need-to-create-an-as-is-state/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do you need to create an As-Is State?'>Do you need to create an As-Is State?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2008/02/how-i-use-a-cmm-to-plan-mature-and-assess-our-ea-practice/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How I use a CMM to plan, mature and assess our EA practice'>How I use a CMM to plan, mature and assess our EA practice</a></li>
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		<title>Using ITG and EA to Manage IT Complexity</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/using-itg-and-ea-to-manage-it-complexity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=using-itg-and-ea-to-manage-it-complexity</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/using-itg-and-ea-to-manage-it-complexity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Roger Sessions (@RSessions) work on IT Complexity reminded me of a set of slides we created to articulate the value of IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture. We (my colleague Dave Cresswell and I) used a simplified model to articulate why we needed to build our Enterprise Architecture practice.  The central premise of the argument [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/10/discussions-on-it-complexity-a-beginning/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Discussions on IT Complexity &#8230; a beginning'>Discussions on IT Complexity &#8230; a beginning</a></li>
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		<title>Returning North for More HE Collaboration</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/09/returning-north-for-more-he-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am back at the University of Alaska Fairbanks this week to collaborate on IT Service Management with a focus on: service definition service delivery service catalogue. I will also be a presenter at Univeristy of Alaska Office of Information Technology 3rd Annual Techfest 2009 talking about BCIT&#8217;s Technology Enabled Knowledge (TEK) strategic initiative that wrapped up [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2009/06/struggling-for-an-roi-follow-up/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Struggling for an ROI &#8230; follow-up'>Struggling for an ROI &#8230; follow-up</a></li>
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		<title>Gartner&#8217;s Emergent Architecture &#8211; Is this really a new approach?</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/08/gartners-emergent-architecture-is-this-really-a-new-approach/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=gartners-emergent-architecture-is-this-really-a-new-approach</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/08/gartners-emergent-architecture-is-this-really-a-new-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 11th, Gartner announced a &#8220;new approach for enterprise architecture&#8221; that they labelled &#8220;Emergent Architecture&#8221;.  I got a chance to read some responses from Todd Biske, Mike Rollings, and Dion Hinchcliffe.  Thanks for the great insights and commentary. In the press release, Bruce Robertson, Gartner Research VP states the two characteristics of &#8220;Emergent EA&#8221;: [...]


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<li><a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/08/do-you-need-to-create-an-as-is-state/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Do you need to create an As-Is State?'>Do you need to create an As-Is State?</a></li>
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		<title>Technology Governance in a Simple Model</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/technology-governance-in-a-simple-model/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=technology-governance-in-a-simple-model</link>
		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/07/technology-governance-in-a-simple-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked about a governance model that has evolved over the past 5 years in our organization in many previous posts. I realize now that I have not actually explained the model, so here we go! When we received approval to proceed with a strategic initiative to leverage technology to support teaching, learning, research and the [...]


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		<title>Struggling for an ROI &#8230; follow-up</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/06/struggling-for-an-roi-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Kavis posted another great piece on why we should use Enterprise Architecture. As always, Mike has some real gems in his post.  Here are a some: &#8220;It sounds to me like people have a technical solution and are now looking for a problem to solve with it.  It needs to work the other way [...]


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		<title>SOA Governance by Todd Biske &#8211; book review</title>
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		<comments>http://leodesousa.ca/2009/04/soa-governance-by-todd-biske-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been following Todd Biske ( @toddbiske) for a few years now. I was in Orlando in Oct 2008 teaching a full day course on EA in Higher Education at the Annual Educause 2008 conference and I met Mike Kavis ( @madgreek65) for lunch (via Twitter but that is another story). We talked about [...]


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