One of the biggest questions I am asked, or more common anyways, is “How Do I Become an EA?” The answer is a little complicated, and so it deserves this video explanation. I speak about the Enterprise Architect Education or Enterprise Architecture Training you might take, I speak about the Enterprise Architect Role, as well as some of the activities that an Enterprise Architect may participate in. I also mention some of the considerations an Enterprise Architect may want to make before taking this role, and I talk about some of the biggest parts of your day as an EA. I mention the types of actions a new or potential enterprise architect might want to take before getting into the role, or the practice tasks they might enjoy as a “test drive”.

Well – enough about that – check out the video, and if you have the ability to get to the Calgary area in the beginning of May, you might want to enrol in the Enterprise Architect Fundamentals workshop on May 8th & 9th.  Early bird registration ends tonight at midnight.
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Enjoy and I look forward to reading your comments.

Happy Architecting!

IT Architect Training is needed to get your IT organization in the best shape ever.  This is the original Architect Boot Camp and started in 2002.  These classes are not readily offered at universities, nor at many technical training colleges.  Architect training is required because to become an architect, it takes a combination of experience, skill and desire, as well as some very specialized training in process, methods and soft skills.

We created some of the very first IT Architecture training ever, and have been doing it for over ten years.  Check out our calendar, and let us know what you are interested in.  We periodically offer schedule public training based on demand, and custom site architecture training is always available.

The Architect Boot Camp training workshops for winter/spring 2012.  IT Architecture Training is planned… Download our catalogue of publicly available architecture workshops. Indicate your interest in future architecture seminars, or contact us about a custom onsite architecture education at your workplace.

Also – See our Training Testimonials.

Workshop	Date	Duration	Location	RegistrationDates
Intro to Architecture Boot Camp	TBA	8 hours	web	Get details
Executive Architect Boot Camp	January 2012	8 hours	n/a	Get details
IT Architect Boot Camp Fundamentals	Winter 2012	24 hours	web	Get details
Enterprise Architect Boot CamEA Fundamentals EA Advanced EA Masterclass	Calgary May 8&9 2012	16 hours	web/ in person	Get details
Solution Architect Boot Camp	TBA	16 hours	web	Get details
Business Architect Boot Camp	TBA	16 hours	web	Get details
Technical Architect Boot Camp	TBA	16 hours	web	Get details

For more information about the schedule and offerings, please click the training link and follow the path for schedule.

It was created as an 8 hour workshop to give the attendee information they need to know about architecture, what it is, the terminology around it, samples of it, and the various specialized architecture disciplines within it such as Data Architect, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Architect.

It is great for IT professionals considering a career change to IT Architecture, as well as executives, project managers and IT managers.

Title

Current Role

Interests

Current Skill

• Developer

• Analyst

• Technologist,

• PM

• Project Interest; Terminology;

• Pondering a field in IT Architecture

• IT analysis, design

• Construction

• project management

• staff management

• Senior Business or IT Leaders

• CIO, CTO, Business and IT Strategists

• PMO and Project Managers

• Executive Level Understanding of process, approach and benefits of architecture.

• Strategic planning, IT portfolio management;

• IT & Enterprise Architecture development, management

• Management;

• IT Portfolio;

• Strategic Planning;

• Budget Analysis;

• Project management

• Business

• Architecture Team Member,

• IT Architects

• Senior System Designer

• Guide and Define the current and future state of an organization

• Transition paths, standards & principles

• Lead or participate on EA Team

• IT Architect, Strategist, Leadership.

• Excel in concepts, planning, strategic.

• Sees the big picture;

• Extremely strong in abstracting the situations, processes.

• New or novice architects (various domains & types),

• senior developers,

• systems analysts & specialists

• Construct basic architecture artifacts, documentation

• Basic Funamentals and understanding of roles, skills, methods and process of IT Architect (various domains, EA)

• System Design & Analysis.

• Project, Solution or high level design responsibilities

System Architect

• Application or software architects;

• Senior systems analysts, senior developers & system designers;

• Solution architects;

• Functional process analysts

• Conversion of the requirements into an architecture and design that will become the blueprint for the solution being created

• Software design, System analysts, Solution scoping;

• Define the interaction between components;

• prototype;

• Background in software development methodologies

• Business architects,

• business analysts,

• systems analysts,

• solution architects

• Create business architecture artifacts;

• business transformation;

• Document Business Strategies, Capabilities,

• Processes from the architecture perspective

• Business and/or systems

• Participant in strategic planning,

• Business process redesign & requirement gathering;

• Models workflow & process

• Technical architects,

• technical specialists,

• infrastructure specialists,

• security architects

• Build a technology blueprint;

• select and analyze infrastructure components;

• Hardware configuration, software and solution technology components

• Understanding of the technical aspects of application, solutions and infrastructure.

• Technology specialties in some special areas such as hardware, operating systems, desktops, network, security, facilities, system software, operational processes.

• Design technology components for prescribed IT solutions.