Attracting, Training and Retaining your Architects

This month we're going to look at the more practical side of being an architect, and you need to look for in an organisation when you are looking for your next engagement.

From the employer's side, how do you attract the right architects for your organisation? Once you have them on board, what do you need to do to make sure they're engaged and fulling their potential.

Precis:-

Storytelling in Enterprise Architecture – An Enterprise

Architect’s journey on the road less travelled –

Christine Stephenson and Bard Pappegaaij

Great learning experiences come from practice and failure before you can hope to succeed. Success comes from learning, experimenting, failing and accomplishing. Christine and Bard would like to

think of themselves as pioneer practitioners who learnt at the feet of trailblazers such as John Zachman, in an era when there was very little knowledge or people to teach and show them how to

be good enterprise architects.

Having had very successful careers in the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ enterprise architecture world as practitioners, today they are dedicated to helping others achieve the same and greater success than they have. They share their journey by telling stories about the lessons learnt from failures, dealing with exceptionally difficult stakeholders and triumphantly delivering great outcomes by giving people what they need. Christine will share the ‘hard’ stuff with you and Bard pitching in to

explain the ‘soft’ stuff.

So come along, listen, learn, ask questions and more importantly start to make your journey to being a great enterprise architecture a great one!

Presenters:-

Christine Stephenson

www.linkedin.com/in/christinestephenson

Christine is a highly experienced enterprise architect specialising in the fields of Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management and Human-Centred Business Design.

With industry sector expertise that includes strength in mining, airline, travel, tourism, health and government she has managed a broad spectrum of projects, for global organisations and government agencies. ​

She has delivered effective architecture outcomes as well as building and managing architecture teams across the world for globally recognized brands. ​

Her strengths lie in communicating complex concepts in simple, easy to

understand ways, based on the audience she is working with and the outcome being sought. ​

She is a professionally certified Enterprise Architect (TOGAF®), and holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, Master of Business Administration and a Doctor of IT Management.

Bard Papegaaij

www.linkedin.com/in/bardpapegaaij

Bard combines more than 30 years of experience in roles ranging from Research, Software Engineering to Enterprise Architecture, (Interim) Management, Coaching, Consulting and Public Speaking with a life-long personal journey into Emotional Intelligence and Human Potential Development. After a successful career in The Netherlands, Bard decided in 1998 to start a new adventure in Australia. ​

Bard provides consulting and coaching and has a pragmatic approach to helping people (individually and in teams) to become the best they could be. ​

For 9 years, Bard has had a successful career in Gartner as Research Director, Executive Partner and Research Vice President, leading Gartner’s research in Enterprise Architecture and the people-side of work and management, as well as developing Gartner’s current focus on organisational culture and change.​

Bard is a strategic thinker and able to implement Enterprise Architecture in organisations and coach Enterprise Architects to have a complete set of skills to communicate with Business and ICT stakeholders.