At the Coal-Face - Solution Architecture in the Public Sector
I'll be speaking at the next WSAF meeting, my topic being what I do every day.
When: Thursday 8th July 2010, Networking from 12:00 noon, Formal session from 12:30 - 1:30pm
Where: Equinox (level 5, Equinox House), 111 The Terrace, Wellington
RSVP to me via email or LinkedIn: http://events.linkedin.com/Coal-Face-Solution-Architecture-Public/pub/354587
What (I think) I'll be talking about - I can't promise to cover it all, but these are the lines I'm thinking along:
The Merger: NZTA = Transit NZ (Java, Novell) + LTNZ (.Net, Microsoft and Mainframes), different cultures, 2-into-1, and so on.
- Setting the scene: size and physical dispersion of the agency, different core business of ex-Transit / ex-LTNZ, high level technology being used.
- Technical diversity - high level overview.
- Absence of in-house development capability - which gives us greater latitude as we don't have to maintain development teams that cover two major back-end platforms.
- The influences of technology on development / project approaches (iterative / waterfall).
What I do, what others think I do and what actually happens.
- What I do: technical assistance (in the absence of developers), conceptual kite flying, helping research and making decisions.
- "Selling" architecture. Walking the balance of the Enterprise view and the Project view.
- How there's not so much actual technical design work as I thought there would be - more of a consultative role supporting others, providing support through discussions.
- Non-functional Requirements: comment on how I support the BA's; how we cross-pollinate with other govt agencies.
- Use of Sparx EA for modelling.
Differences between working in the public and private sectors.
- Working with legislative drivers (why we can't be late)
- Trust: public information - how we work with public information / provide public services - the fact that everyone takes this responsibility very seriously.
- Government shared services: leveraging these.
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