Architecture Bullits

It was Ronald Ham's idea to visit the Open Group Conference in London together with a group of people from Higher Education, implementers of Enterprise Architecture in their own institutions. We started with a day organized by David Rose, where we met some JISC colleagues and exchanged experiences.

Here are my bullits:

• EA in HE seems to be in a startup phase in the UK. However, Roehampton University and Liverpool John Moores University definitely are practitioners.
• JISC are stimulating EA by giving grants for special EA projects. That could work. SURF should do something similar. (cf the SurfShare program).
• TOGAF 9 had its European launch at the OG conference. However, the real theme of the conference was the gap between business and enterprise architects (observation by @rtolido).
• Enterprise Architecture will achieve nothing if not connected to the business. So architects always must engage the business in their projects. They also need sponsorship in higher circles (like any other consultant).
• Several speakers talked about EA maturity models. I will look into this. Am interested in a model assessing the maturity of an organization w.r.t. EA.
• Sogeti's Martin van den Berg spoke about the importance of PSA's. I was in a different session, but will invite him to speak in Delft.
• I attended a session on cloud computing. I do not think we need a special TOGAF for the cloud.
• I suddenly realized that business analysis is in the middle of the TOGAF circle: requirements analysis.
• Many people in the audience were using Twitter during the presentations, to comment or to report. A new, fascinating and very useful experience to me.
• Jack Hanison gave a very interesting talk about entering the cloud. Do's and don'ts, what is it really about.
• TOGAF 9 is very large. However there is no need for a discussion about a "light" version. One is always free to adopt only part of it.

Much to think about!