A Virtual Free IT Architect Regional Conference:
March 20th - 9am PST

To Register: http://iasa.brighttalk.com/

Illities and Illiancies: Quality Attributes from
Security to Resiliency

Quality attributes or cross-cutting technical concerns
represent a key area for architectural focus and
constraints. From security which is a massively
important enterprise issue to resiliency and
flexibility, IT architects are faced with quality
attribute trade offs on a daily basis. For example,
optimizing an application or set of applications for
performance will often result in detrimental effects
on flexibility. These tradeoffs are an important part
of the architects job and if overlooked can cause
tremendous downstream impacts to the value IT can
generate.

In this virtual conference you will hear
thought-leaders, such as Scott Ambler and Angela
Yochem, discuss quality attribute issues based real
world ramifications. Take a look at the agenda and
register here today! As we said attendance is virtual
(from your home or office) and free! So don’t miss
this excellent education opportunity.

We would also like to thank our sponsor, Computer
Associates for helping us to provide this program to
you at no cost.

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Programme:

9:00am PST
Open by Moderator: Jeffrey Ritter

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9:05am PST
Scott Ambler
Practice Leader Agile Development
IBM Rational (Canada)

Topic:
Agile Approaches to Addressing Quality of Service
(QoS) Issues
Architecture is an important activity on any software
development project and with IT departments in
general. Yet many architecture efforts go astray
because the architectural approach doesn't reflect the
culture of the team which it is trying to support.
This presentation overviews agile strategies for both
application and enterprise architectural endeavors and
overviews the issues which you potentially need to
address when doing so.

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9:50am PST

Nestor Morejon, ISSA Charter Member, IBM MVS
Internals, CNE
Vice President, Principal Architect
Global Security Practice, CA Technology Services

Topic:
Interdependencies of Identity Access Management
How Identity and Access Management technology secures
applications, employees and information. Security used
to be added to IT systems as an afterthought – but no
longer. Increasingly, security is architected into the
DNA of modern IT sytstems. This presentation will
discuss how Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps
align IT architecture to business goals, ensures
regulatory compliance while also speeding IT
development. It will discuss IAM architecture to
secure SOA, websites/portals, host systems access,
staff and customer identities.

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10:35am PST

Mike Rosen
Chief Scientist
Wilton Consulting Group

Topic:
How to Create Flexible Architectures One of the
important architectural qualities is Flexibility. But
what does that mean? There are many aspects to
flexibility such as planning for the future,
supporting multiple devices or channels, being
extensible. And, in today's SOA environment,
flexibility is even more important in creating
services that can be used in a variety of scenarios.
This presentation will discuss the quality of
flexibility and the principles of how to achieve it.
Examples of flexible architectures and flexible
service design will be used to illustrate these
principles.

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11:20am PST

Angela Yochem
SVP, Strategic Architecture Management Executive,
Consumer and Corporate Staff
Technology
Bank of America and IASA Fellow

Topic:
Managing, Selecting and Supporting Quality Attributes
in the Real World Enterprise Architecture Environment
Quality Attributes are the foundational "ilities" we
build into every technology solution. Making the
appropriate optimization decision for one quality
attribute over another is a particularly esoteric
aspect of architecture engagement. In this
presentation, we'll provide guidelines for determining
which attributes should be encouraged and tracked -
and when - in your enterprise.

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12:05pm PST - Closing

Jeffrey Ritter
Founder, CEO
Waters Edge Consulting

To Register: http://iasa.brighttalk.com/







Scott W. Ambler
Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Methods Group
http://www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html
Agile at Scale: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler


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