6. About Me
Practitioner
Actively engaged with customers
Strategic engagements
Involved
Architecture community
Standards
Certified
Open CA Distinguished Chief Architect
10. What does the Industry Say?
* http://www.linkedin.com/groups/What-is-best-EA-method-36781.S.96493286
** http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contract.aspx?page=1&sortby=0&orderby=0&q=togaf&id=0&lid=2618
*** The Open Group
**** Gartner 2012
16. Architecture Certification Landscape
These certifications are Driven from a Provides the essential Specialized based on a
focused on validating predetermined set of supporting skills for set of drivers from the
your experience. industry or business EAs to be successful. Academic or Vendor
concerns (ex. federal community.
government)
17. Enterprise Architect Certification Reference Guide
Competency Based Certifications Supporting
Open CA Academic Institutions
Penn State
Industry / Specialized Certifications
RMIT
FEAF DODAF
Kent State
TEAF MODAF
Applied & Tailored
Foundational Certifications Accenture
Zachman TOGAF IBM
SEI Architecture & Trade Off Analysis ArchiMate Oracle
IASA Foundation CITS CISCO
Related Leanings
MBA Risk Management ITIL
Solution Architecture PMO Agile / SDLC
18. Outcomes drive each path
Outcome Outcome Outcome Outcome
Validate your Learn & be credible in Tune your architecture Providing generalize or
architecture skills an industry skills supplemental learning
through academia or
vendors
19. Competency Based Certifications
Overview
The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program is an
independent global certification program for qualifying the skills,
knowledge and experience of IT, Business and Enterprise Architects.
Accepted and applicable worldwide, Open CA boasts more than 3,300
certified professionals from 160 companies in more than 60 countries
worldwide.
The program requires applicants to demonstrate skills and experience
against a set of conformance requirements through written applications
and peer interviews. There are no training courses to attend, and no
written exams to complete.
• Open CA Site
• The Open Group Certified Architect
Program Distilled
• Experiences taking the Open CA
Level 3
certification
• Conformance Requirements (Multi-
Level)
• Sample Certification Packages
• Sample Certification Agreement
Level 2
• How you can become Open CA
certified and how your organization
Level 1 can become Open CA accredited
22. Open CA Open CA CITS TOGAF ArchiMate
Three Levels
Certified, Master & Distinguished
Level 3
Evaluated
by your industry peers
Rigorous Level 2
& fair process Level 1
More information: http://www.mikethearchitect.com/2011/08/the-open-group-certified-architect-open-ca-program-
distilled.html
25. Call to Action
Ask & Learn
about certifications
Mentor
and be a mentor
Certify
yourself on the best path for you
26. Resources
Open Group certification site:
http://www3.opengroup.org/certifications
Open CA certification site:
http://www.opengroup.org/openca/cert/
TOGAF certification site: http://www.opengroup.org/togaf9/cert/
General Certification analysis, review and news:
http://www.mikethearchitect.com/certification/
Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled:
http://bit.ly/tmSVdF
Open CA Program Distilled: http://bit.ly/nrKlp8
ProblemsGenerally speaking the industry is confused what certification are out there and what they are forToo many options and are overwhelmedAngry that the certification didn’t meet the expectationResolutionHave a different mental frame on how to think about certifications
Competency Based Certifications – These certifications are focused at evaluating your experience to validate that you are indeed an architect. Much like many other certifications in the industry (e.g., PMP). These are much different to others that determine what you know instead of how you applied the knowledge.Industry / Specialized Certifications – Driven from a predetermined set of concerns such as the federal government or a specific industry is where these derive from. While these certifications are critical in that vertical, often times they do not transfer well across verticals given the difference in drivers and motivations of these very specific bodies of knowledge.Foundational Certifications – Provides the essential skills for EA’s. These certifications are different from the other two in the respect that they validate that you’re an architect while foundational certifications validate that you know a specific methods, models and/or tools. These certifications are essential to EA’s as they populate the EA’s toolbox. For example, without an overall enterprise architecture framework how would we be truly effective as EA’s?Applied – Divided into two primary areas, Academic and Vendor Tailored they either support a certification or provide a certification highly tailored. These are in a supporting function to Competency Based Certifications.Supporting Certifications and Learning's – These certifications make a well rounded enterprise architect. These are often referred to or leveraged in the day in the life of an EA.