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Gartner Summit 2006 AtE Prize Draw

Architecting the Enterprise were sponsors of the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Conference held in October this year.  Garry Doherty, The Open Group TOGAF Product Manager, drew out the names of the five attendees who have won a free place on a London TOGAF 8 course (worth over GBP1500)

 

We are pleased to announce that the winners are:

 

Les Young - MBNA

Nick Cutting - DWP

Zee Gwebu - OLD MUTUAL

Bruno Misseeuw - Coca-Cola Enterprises

Tomas Engaras - IKEA

 

Congratulations to the winners.

 

Roger Cutts becomes Architecting the Enterprise's latest Associate

Judith Jones, Principal of Architecting-the-Enterprise, and Simon Dalziel, Senior Architecting the Enterprise Consultant, are pictured here presenting Roger Cutts with his TOGAF Certificate.

Roger has over 30 years experience in the IT and Telecoms industries and spent several years as Global IT Architect for a world leading Telecommunications Service Provider. You'll find a lengthier biography here.

Simon worked briefly with Roger some 19 years ago and this picture was taken when they met for the first time since then!

Roger joins Architecting the Enterprise as our latest associate. We wish him great success as he helps build the TOGAF Architect community.

Architecting the Enterprise certifies its 1000th Architect

We are delighted to announce that we have now trained and TOGAF certified over 1000 architects - in just three short years! These students come from a wide variety of industries and many countries of the world. Thanks to them, our excellent and hard working consultants and our support staff who beaver away in the background the global Enterprise Architecture community is all the richer.

UK's National Computing Centre (NCC) feature TOGAF

The NCC's in-house magazine "ITadviser" recently focused on Enterprise Architecture. It has an influential readership of around 11,000 senior IT managers and IT directors in medium to large UK organisations in both the public and private sectors. Recognising TOGAF's significance the NCC invited Architecting the Enterprise's principal, Judith Jones, to provide a broad overview of TOGAF for their readership. You can read Judith's article on the NCC website.

May's training update

Once again Architecting the Enterprise instructors travelled the globe in response to the growing demand for TOGAF certification training. This month included a trip to Mumbai as the monsoon rains closed in ten days earlier than expected. Note the clouds in the picture showing instructor Mike Lambert (back row) supported by Dave Livingstone (front row) amongst the 20 attendees from Tata Consultancy Services.

Other clients certifying people in TOGAF during May include Accenture, Armstrong Process Group, Caterpillar, Hennepin County, Oxford University Press, Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), GIST, SAP, Serco Consulting, SITA, Standard Life, Telindus and University of St. Thomas.

Dave Harrison becomes Chair of System Architect User Group

The System Architect User Group (SAUG) is dedicated to sharing ideas and information about Telelogic's System Architect modelling tool. Architecting the Enterprise Instructor, Dave Harrison recently became Chair of the user group describing it as an independent, non-profit making, unbiased forum for discussion.

The group's membership represents both large and small organisations and spans many industry sectors. The common thread is of course their use of Systems Architect for everything from Enterprise Architecture to Data or Process Modelling or Application Portfolio Management.

The group holds two conferences a year and publish a regular newsletter. You can find out more here.

April 2006

This month public courses continued around the globe, with London, Warsaw and San Francisco, whilst several clients ran private courses, including Detecon International, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom in Bonn, Germany - pictured below:

March 2006

In addition to our now usual monthly trip to London, this month we ran public courses in Bangalore and Sydney. Companies represented include Infosys, Ravana Technologies, Telelogic, Telstra and Sytec Resources Limited.

	Bangalore Class - Instructor Mike Lambert is fourth from the left.
	Sydney Class - Instructor Simon Dalziel is on the far right.

Sydney's lucky attendees had an interesting venue - the AMP Tower. The view from the 34th floor looks stunning!

 

February 2006

In the first two months of 2006 we've trained and certified over 50 people. Their names will shortly appear on the Open Group's TOGAF Certification Register. This is evidence enough of the growing use of TOGAF in the market place, but perhaps it's even more significant when these people come from such household names as  AXA, BAA, DHL, Ford, Orange, Ordnance Survey and The Environment Agency.

The Santa Monica course on Feb 6th was a good example with seven delegates from KPMG, Walt Disney, Banco Popular, Keane and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Instructor Bill Estrem is third from the left.

January 2006

After a successful year we are delighted to announce the new TOGAF Training schedule for 2006. We plan to visit every continent during the year and at least one public event every month in each of Europe and North America. From March we will be running events in the Rest of the World too.

In addition Architecting the Enterprise has become a Gold Member of The Open Group and will also be a sponsor of the Architecture Practitioner Conference at Barcelona from January 23-25th.

Thomas Obitz of Infosys and Judith Jones of Architecting the Enterprise have been elected as the Customer Council representatives of The Open Group Architecture Forum.

December 2005

We are delighted to announce that Architecting the Enterprise trained a further  59 people to become TOGAF Certified Practitioners this month and have now trained over 550 people worldwide. Clients include PITO UK , Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BEA, HP, Norwich Unioin, DHL , UK Government, Network Rail, Steria, Shell, Infosys and many more. During 2005 we completed 40 courses worldwide with the eLearning program continuing to develop webinar events. Next year we plan to grow our public program and also promote the exam training services too so that there will be several ways for our clients to achieve certification to suit their business requirements.

We are introducing intensive one day events on specific subjects based on TOGAF developing best practices commencing in February 2006. The first event will be held on February 20th, 2006 in London the subject will be Enterprise Architecture Best Practice Governance with guest presenters Chris Blake and Dave Gilmour. Chris and Dave are intimately involved with TOGAF Governance best practice developments and regular presenters at conferences. Places will be limited and reservations are being taken from January 3rd. A special introductory 20% discount for TOGAF Certified Practitioners and consortia members will be available.

In addition we are extending our normal formal 10% discount for Open Group Members to the Integration Consortium membership commencing January 3rd, 2006.

Our global reach for TOGAF 8 training will be extended further and the guys are already packing their bags .....  The 2006 Public events schedule looks very exciting and will be published on January 6th, 2006.  We will also be launching a new website during January 2006 - so watch this space.

November 2005

On November 8th Judith Jones presented to the UK itSMF conference on TOGAF and ITIL providing new opportunities for seamlessly integrating Enterprise Architecture with Service Management. On November 14th Judith Jones will present TOGAF directions to the recently formed UK Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) at Microsoft's HQ in London in conjunction with Paul Homan of the UK   Post Office who will speak on his experiences of using TOGAF. 

Dave Harrison kicks off this month with the first of a regular Monday slot providing a  four hour webinar series for our eLearning candidates and also people looking for training to support their studies for the new TOGAF exam.

The highlight of the month has to be the news that Infosys Technologies will be the first company to achieve their target of 100 TOGAF certified people worldwide putting them at the forefront of Enterprise Architecture development. Brilliant news and well done everyone. Thanks to our experienced trainers Mike Lambert, Bill Estrem and Simon Dalziel ably assisted by our new guys on the block Dave Hornford from Canada and Matt Thorpe who helped to make this happen. Also lets not forget our back room girl Kate who puts all the materials together and gets them to their destination on time. Thanks to a great team for making this achievement happen.

After 43 people were trained by Architecting-the-Enterprise in the last year the Japanese market has fully embraced TOGAF and we are delighted to announce that Reg-is Japan will be running a Japanese language version of our TOGAF training in Japan this month. 

October 2005

Las Vegas was the venue of the DCi Enterprise Architecture Conference where Judith Jones, Principal of Architecting the Enterprise spoke on Open Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF. This was a busy month with the Open Group conference on SOA in Houston running in parallel with a five day TOGAF T9 workshop in Houston, Texas.

The highlight of the month is our first Chinese student in Beiijing, Jian Jun Yin, who achieved TOGAF Certification through eLearning. Architecting-the-Enterprise celebrated another 110 TOGAF certified people.

Architecting the Enterprise opens new HQ office in Loudwater, High Wycombe , UK cementing our worldwide venue partnership with Regus. The new number to call is +44 (0) 2081 229 150.

September 2005

Poland started the beginning of a busy month with a team from the Ministry of Finance trained by Mike Lambert and Simon Dalziel in Warsaw when Rafal.Jablonka became the first Polish person to achieve TOGAF certification.

Dave Livingstone joins Architecting the Enterprise as the Business Development Director responsible for global marketing and client contracts. Dave has had an illustrious career in marketing with sales training organisations including Marketing Director with Siebel and brings his wealth of value knowledge to the Enterprise Architecture world. 

August 2005

The highlight of the month was the announcement by The Open Group of over 100 people  who achieved TOGAF certification in June and July through training by Architecting the Enterprise . These included eLearning candidates Poolsingh Bhookya, Stephen Bradshaw, Alan Dodd, Bill Mansfield and the first teams from Bangalore , India where 28 people from Infosys were trained by Mike Lambert and Bill Estrem. 

Matt Thorpe joins the Architecting the Enterprise team as business manager responsible for Business Operations. We welcome Matt who has significant management experience in the Retail industry and this month achieved a First Class Honours degree from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College in Business Management and HR. Well done Matt.

July 2005

The Open Group Architecture Practitioner's Forum was a major success in New York with 300 people attending the event. The TOGAF T9 project team meeting ran parallel to the event bringing all the work streams together to form the foundations for the T9 Alpha release. The first person from the Emirates  to achieve TOGAF certification happened in the New York class where the course dinner was replaced with a trip to see the Yankees play and beat the Minnesota Twins where Class Leader Bill Estrem assured us that his home team would win tomorrow!

Reading University announced the first 19 academic TOGAF certifications trained by Mike Lambert and supported by Architecting-the-Enterprise.

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