Agile Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

Howard was great and flexible to some extent to tailor it for our needs; however it was minimal. Appreciated the support from Howard and the flexib... Read More

Howard was great and flexible to some extent to tailor it for our needs; however it was minimal. Appreciated the support from Howard and the flexibility. Howard was knowledgeable and was great in the leading the team. I do think there was a lot of content/material in the course and it seems the assumption is that organizations already have it all completed figured out in terms of strategy and all the details around it prior to this workshop; however, that's not often the case in fact. We did have to skip through some topics to stay on track. In my experience, most often people are not 100% aligned prior to a workshop like this and hence the need to develop the operating model and there was not a lot of time to have those discussions and align. I personally believe that it would help if there was a a better approach in determining how to best develop a right-sized EA operating model for an org. While there is a blueprint and best practices, not every organization has the same size and maturity level and the needs are different. Being able to skip some steps and still have a solid operating model is quite possible. We did go through a lot of steps that were not all necessarily needed for our org and that was the input from 2 other folks that attended the workshop (when they spoke to me as I own it as the VP of EA). Read Less

Very supportive and productive.