IT Skills Development Work Group

Meeting Minutes

Attendees
Donna Canestraro - CTG
James Nicol - CAI
Adam Gigandet - NYS DMV
Deb Langeuin - NYS DMV
Douglas Lapham - Line of Sight

Agenda for the meeting:

  • Welcome
  • Update on the Dec 15th meeting event - last minute details, review of final agenda, roles and responsibilities.
  • Update and review of our mission, work group status, and plans for the remainder of the 2010 calendar year.
  • Use of social networking - discussion of issues and concerns and determination of what is best for our community.
  • Initial discussion and planning of the Spring 2010 event

Meeting Notes

  • Donna opened the meeting with an update on the Dec 15th meeting event by reviewing the detailed agenda and notes from the coordination call that occurred last week.

    We reviewed Rebecca's communication regarding a sign up sheet for those interested in possibly creating a community of practice for BA's. Rebecca advised in email that Mike will create a list of those registered for the event along with two check boxes - one for those interested in receiving information regarding business analyst type topics and another check box for those who are interested in receiving information concerning IIBA. As a forum work group we need to be sensitive to the fact that we will not share contact information with anyone. If a member of the Forum wishes to share their email address with either entity they must indicate so by checking a box. Then the Forum will create a list with their name, title, agency and email.
  • Program planning for 2010 and beyond - Donna proposed a format for planning where we use our Spring event to help generate ideas and create a prioritized list for Fall events. As an example - the Spring 2010 event could be a round table discussion centered on 6 topics such as Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), Quality Assurance, Service Center, Storage and Virtualization, Data base Administration, and soft-skills development. When someone would register for the event they would also register for a specific table discussion. Each table would then be tasked to create a list of topics they would like to see an event planned around, similar to how the BA event was planned this quarter. At the end of the Spring 2010 event each table would have a prioritized list along with potential volunteers who would be interested in helping plan such an event with our team.

    The remainder of the spring into early fall would be the planning of one or multiple events to meet the communities outlined needs. We would also explore if there were opportunities to co-sponsor an event with other Forum work groups, similar to how we co-sponsored the BA event with the PM work group.

    Deb and Adam will work with their internal teams to draft a brief description of each of these 6 areas to be used in a one-pager that can be incorporated into the Dec 15th event. We will ask attendees, as a straw-vote, if they would be interested in attending a round table discussion regarding these topics to gauge interest. We will also include a blank area so attendees can add other topic areas that they are interested in. We will use this data to help us craft our internal planning document and hopefully a Spring 2010 event.
  • Social Networking tools - the group discussed the recent threaded discussion concerning the use of social networking tools to help support work groups activities. It was agreed to that for the time being this work group will continue to listen to the discussion but rely on email, listserv and face to face meetings to help coordinate our work.
  • Doug suggested that we consider the creation of a starter kit for COPs - a kind of how to foster a community of practice checklist that could be used by any group wishing to sustain a group once an initial interest has been sparked. Such is the case with BA's - At our next meeting we will brainstorm what this starter kit would look like with the goal of creating a one page proposal to the Forum Exec. Board at the February meeting for consideration.
  • Our next meeting is scheduled for January 4th and the agenda will be:
    • Planning for 2010 Spring Event
    • Discussion concerning the COP Starter Kit.

Action Items

  • Donna will type and disseminate the notes for the group to approve
  • Donna will work with James and Aniko concerning the Dec 15 event final tasks.
  • Adam and Deb will work with their DMV team to draft up 2-3 sentence descriptions of the 6 potential categories for the round table discussions.
  • All will start to consider items they would like to see in a starter kit.
  • All will try to attend the Dec 15th event to assist where needed.

Next Meeting: January 4, 2010 - 10:30 am, NYS Forum Offices