Enhancing IT architect capabilities: Experiences within a university subject

ACIS 2006 Proceedings - 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Frampton, Keith ^a   Thom, James A ^a   Carroll, Jennie ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capabilities; IT architect; Problem solving; Software engineering education

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CAPABILITIES; CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS; IT ARCHITECT; SHORT TERM; SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84869121828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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