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Past Expert Insights Webinar

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The success of a business architecture practice is tied to how well the business architect partners with the business and demonstrates value.

In this session we will discuss some tips and techniques for getting your business stakeholders to become your greatest champions.

Audience:

You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations

• Enterprise architects
• product owners
• project managers
• business analysts

WATCH PART ONE:

A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

WATCH PART THREE:

Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Dean Heltemes

A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.

Past Expert Insights Webinar

WATCH VIDEO HERE

Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines

You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations

• Enterprise architects
• product owners
• project managers
• business analysts

WATCH VIDEO HERE

This is Part Three of a Three Part Series:

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field

Learn How to Collaborate Across Architecture Disciplines

In today’s complex business and digital environments, business architects often have to work closely with other architects, such as enterprise, data, and solution architects.  In this session we will explore modern operating models for organizing different types of architects, along with approaches companies are taking to improve collaboration.

WATCH PART ONE:

A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

WATCH PART TWO VIDEO HERE:

Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dean Heltemes

A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.

Past Expert Insights Webinar

How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?

This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.

This first session in the series covers the basics that must be established before even starting to think about a formal business architecture practice.

Discover how to use business architecture techniques to define questions with a value proposition that will define the value that your practice will bring your organization.

Other takeaways for attendees:

• Essential infrastructure and requirements for standing up a practice
• How to develop your internal presentation to get buy-in

WATCH THIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR HERE

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Maureen Mathias

Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.

Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”

In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.

Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.

Past Expert Insights Webinar

* Please Note – This Expert Insights focuses on Business Architecture and is intended for an audience with a background or understanding of Business Architecture.

How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?

This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to set up a practice in her organization.

This is a continuation of Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice: Part 1: Your Value Proposition which can be viewed HERE

Many are doing the work of business architecture within their organizations.  How does this work by siloed individuals become a coordinated effort within an organization?  How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?   Taking a cue from lawyers, the answer is “it depends.”  While there are many paths, this Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide the strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.

This second session on Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice provides tips and strategies for establishing a charter for your business architecture practice.

Participants will learn about:

1. The elements that go into a solid charter
2. Aligning the charter to the value proposition
3. Mission, vision, and goals to track success

WATCH THIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR HERE

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Maureen Mathias

Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.

Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”

In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.

Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.

WATCH THE FIRST WEBINAR IN THIS SERIES HERE

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition

Past Expert Insights Video

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This third and final session in Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice poses questions that should be considered when it comes to the governance of an enterprise-level business architecture practice.

Participants will learn about considerations for:

Engagement – How do others access your services?Deliverables – What products and services are you providing?Interactions – What are the roles and responsibilities of the people involved?

How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?

This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.

WATCH THE FIRST WEBINAR IN THIS SERIES HERE

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition

Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 2: Your Business Architecture Practice Charter

Maureen Mathias

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.

Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”

In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.

Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.

Previously Recorded Webinar

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2020 demonstrated the criticality of a business’s ability to pivot and respond to a rapidly changing environment.  Business strategies are now fluid, and business architects need to adapt.  The session will focus on practical tips and methods for how business architects can take the tools in their toolbox and hit the turbo button to keep up with the world around them.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Dean Heltemes is the Senior Director of Business Architecture in Advisor Technology Solutions for Ameriprise Financial.   He is well-known in the Twin Cities for his business architecture expertise from his role as a Business Architect instructor at Metropolitan State University and from serving on the board of the Twin Cities Business Architecture forum.

Expert Insights Webinar

This video focuses on the creation of the State of Minnesota’s Office of Transformation to standardize and assist state agencies with their modernization efforts.

Get ideas on:

• how to identify best practices for your playbook
• how to include your business units in the process
• how to help your organization chart a course for its own transformation.

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The State of Minnesota launched the Modernization Playbook to address outdated systems and infrastructure.  The Playbook is an end-to-end framework to establish consistency in understanding roles, language, and process activities for the successful transformation of business processes and IT portfolio and application management to support modernization efforts.

This 3-part Series will showcase the Playbook and its purpose, how it was used to rank state agency maturity, and how it is used to chart transformation and focus agencies into the future.

While the state of Minnesota developed the Playbook to address IT modernization projects, the Playbook concept can be applied to a full spectrum of projects and portfolio management*.

*Where you see the words state agency, think Business Unit or Product Line.  Where systems or infrastructure appear, think new products, The Great Resignation, pandemic shifts, or any one of the number of forces that require transformation in your organization.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Stacey Walker is the Transformation Program Manager in the State of Minnesota’s Office of Transformation and Strategy Delivery, a newly formed enterprise services department that serves all 22 executive branch state agencies. Stacey has been in her role since April 2021 having transitioned from the healthcare sector where she has worked for 25 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Nursing and a Master of Science degree in Nursing/Healthcare Leadership. In the early 2000’s with the digital transformation to electronic medical records, Stacey moved into a clinical informatics role and progressed from there into project and program leadership where she has gained 12 years of experience.  Stacy earned her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2015 and recently became certified in organizational change management. She is known as a creative leader with high energy and is honored to be able to serve her fellow Minnesotans in her new role helping to modernize Minnesota’s state government.

Here Are the Other Two Webinars In This Special Series.

Session Two – Modernization, Maturity, and the Playbook

Session 3 – People and the Playbook