Developing Architects
Enterprise architecture is still an emerging profession. As well as the specific technical skills required, there are some critical talents, skills and approaches that architects need in order to operate effectively inside organisations.
They must have a broad perspective on the organisation they serve – its business goals and how the IT strategy supports them – and be able to weigh up competing dimensions and help stakeholders make trade-offs between their respective needs to achieve the right solutions for the enterprise as a whole. They will need to concentrate on the things that really make a difference and earn a position of influence within all of those teams engaged in the actual delivery of business and IT change projects and programmes.In this session, Sally Bean and Peter Haine will draw on their extensive experience with architecture groups in the public and private sector to examine the key architect roles that are required, how to develop the broad range of competencies needed to fulfil them, and ways of organising architecture teams for maximum effectiveness.
They will also provide insights from their experiences of leading communities of practice in architecture.
This presentation will focus on:
The different types of architect you need in your organisation and how you work out which team structure will be most effective
The necessary distribution of competencies soft and hard and responsibilities across the different architect role types
Practical career development paths for architects
The characteristics of high-performing architecture teams
