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3 reasons to join the new architecture community of practice
3 reasons to join the new architecture
community of practice
Michelle Graham – 15 September 2020
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With a focus on user experience, now more than ever, we want to encourage collaboration and
sharing between business and enterprise architects and other government specialists.
Caption: Community of Practice members will benefit from a shared understanding of
government capabilities.
The pain points
Business and enterprise architects often work in isolation from their peers in other agencies.
Skills and techniques are learned the hard way, opportunities are few, and it can be difficult to
get comprehensive information about government platforms and services.
Steps toward a solution
Through building a new government architecture community of practice, we believe everyone
will benefit from a shared understanding of government capabilities. Members will be able to
influence the government architecture ecosystem and contribute to the design of better
government services.
Benefits include:
shared expertise and information
advice from peers
development and review government architecture products
opportunities to help government deliver simple, clear, and fast public services
Shared expertise
There is no doubt that other agencies have faced similar challenges, solved similar problems,
or developed better techniques. It’s time to share what we know. The community is a place
where you can ask questions, discuss challenges, and learn from others.
Lively discussions will lift the quality of architectural practice across government and help us
collectively develop an architecture that delivers value.
Explore new opportunities
Government agencies can be siloed, which can be frustrating for users of government services.
A user-focused perspective and a broader, ecosystem-based approach to architecture will
remove barriers between agencies and deliver a better experience for users.
This is an opportunity to design new ways of using what government already knows. We will
explore ways to streamline the user experience by ‘joining up’ services that flow across agency
boundaries.
We will also make information about government platforms more widely available. Members
will have opportunities to contribute their ideas about how government capability can be
improved for everyone.
Help to develop architecture products
Community members can contribute to the whole-of-government architecture products
currently being developed. This includes:
reference models that define standard terms and frameworks
a catalogue of government platforms and services to improve visibility and reuse
views of government services that show how many different elements work together to
deliver value
methods to assess the alignment of a proposed investments with the future-state
government architecture
Community members will be invited to help test our hypotheses and comment on products as
they are developed and released.
Join the community
In addition to the
online community of practice (/help-and-advice/communities-
practice#government-architecture-community), members will be able to contribute to
products and influence the design of government capabilities and services by participating in
virtual showcase events.
Anyone with a gov.au email address and an interest in government architecture, service design
or strategic investment can join the new community. Become a member by contacting
xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx (mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx).
Michelle is Head, Strategy and Architecture at DTA.
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