We talked a little bit about risk in the last post. In highly risk and change averse cultures, you want to make sure you have a solid argument for why you want to make the changes you wish to make. For executive-types, they want to see numbers. Return on Investment. Whether what you are proposing […]
Phase E – Creating the To-Do List
Once you have your baseline and your target architecture, it is time to create the roadmap or, what I would like to call, the “To Do” list. To build the “To Do” list, we need Where we are at (the Baseline Architecture) Where we want to go (the Target Architecture) The list of projects and […]
Observing the Environment
You may have noticed that I have spent a LOT of time with planning in this blog. The silences should have told you I was also DOING stuff too. Architecture planning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. As the plan is developed, it’s good to observe what is going on in the environment. How are the […]
Relating the Learning Ecosystem to Other Ecosystems
Click the picture to view a larger version. Again, this is NOT the direction we have decided to head. NO decision has been made as of this writing and the picture does not reflect what is going on with my employer. I am putting this here as an example. ————————- In the proposed architecture picture […]
Architecture Vision – Developing Learning Ecosystem v2
This is just one option. This does not reflect the direction we may actually head… ————————————— I have found that 6 months – 1 year out from the end of the LMS contract (or whatever the “core” of your ecosystem is) is a good time to re-evaluate the ecosystem and take a close look at […]
Business Architecture – Validating Workflows
Once I have a few process workflows completed and the members of my team are happy, the next step is to show them to others. I don’t need all of them. I just want to show a few examples of the “least challenging” and get a better feel for how much these stakeholders want to […]
Business Architecture Sample – Student Registration into Archi
Last spring, after the Integration SWAT Team guy showed me Archi and walked me through how to develop a process using Archimate, he sent me off with a copy of the enterprise architecture as it currently exists (not including specific server IPs or other sensitive information that I don’t need anyway). a link to Archimate, […]
Sample Solutions Survey….or How Training Fits In
I’ve had a number of people ask me recently about what questions we are asking in our Pilot surveys. The largest survey we did was for our Unified Communications rollout. I have started to use some of these questions during other implementations to get a feel for how the training programs impact the adoption of […]
Translating Capabilities to Strategy – Survey Example
As you may have discovered, we have multiple tools that do similar things. We have multiple tools that provide survey capabilities. So now we can sit and figure out what tool is best for a particular scenario – and come up with a clear set of guidelines for the team. This will allow us to […]
Translating Requirements to Capabilities
Doing the translation between requirements and capability is actually fairly simple: 1) Copy the actor/verb/object columns to a new sheet within your spreadsheet 2) List the tools you have available across the top 3) Ask – does it have the feature? Yes / No. This also allows me to comment if the answer isn’t so […]
