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.

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

Expert Insights Webinar

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A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management

This is Part One of a Three Part Series:

The Modern Business Architect: Lessons from the Field

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

Learn more about how product managers can use business architecture in their roles.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

WATCH PART TWO:

Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture

WATCH PART 3:

 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.

Expert Insights Webinar

This video focuses on how a playbook works in conjunction with maturity assessments. Learn the process the State of Minnesota used to have Executive Branch Agencies self-rank their maturity using the playbook and how those rankings were used to identify gaps and ultimately create maturity roadmaps for improvement planning.  Find ideas for standardizing your organization’s maturity mapping.

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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.

Here Are the Other Two Webinars In This Special Series.

Session One – The Marvel of the Playbook

Session Three – People and the Playbook

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.

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.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

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