My organization of work is never the same. Every semester is different, and we are always making changes throughout the semester. For instance, our Free or Reduced lunch program was recently audited, and our attendance records did not match the associated lunch records. As a result, we had to evaluate our current architecture and agree upon a future architecture. As a result we decided that teachers would report to work at 7:30 a.m. to take attendance, and would take attendance again at 4:00 p.m..
My organization is a nonprofit that offers job training to youth while attending high school. Some individuals refer to it as a “second chance school” for students to get their diploma. This results in a “school side” and a “job training” side. On the job training side, we have what we call “crews”. Each crew has a supervisor, and the supervisor is a nonstudent. Supervisors, in turn, report to a manager. One manager oversees various supervisors. In the past, we had supervisors take attendance at 7:30 a.m. We refer to this time as PT (Physical Training). There were a lot of individuals involved in reporting attendance.
Since the attendance and lunch program reports did not correlate, five teachers now report to work at 7:30 a.m. to take attendance. Each teacher has between 40 to 50 students who they track on a daily basis. If a student is absent, we call him/her, and we find out where he/she is. For instance, this week there were two students who did not report to work or school; they were absent from PT. I then emailed everyone asking if they knew why these students were absent, and I did not get a response from anyone. Assuming this meant no one knew, I called each student and found that one student was sick and the other student had overslept.
In sum, we continuously meet to implement new ideas and to remove those that are not working. The above summary is a small example of enterprise architecture change, which plays into the larger yearly change for our organization.
My organization is a nonprofit that offers job training to youth while attending high school. Some individuals refer to it as a “second chance school” for students to get their diploma. This results in a “school side” and a “job training” side. On the job training side, we have what we call “crews”. Each crew has a supervisor, and the supervisor is a nonstudent. Supervisors, in turn, report to a manager. One manager oversees various supervisors. In the past, we had supervisors take attendance at 7:30 a.m. We refer to this time as PT (Physical Training). There were a lot of individuals involved in reporting attendance.
Since the attendance and lunch program reports did not correlate, five teachers now report to work at 7:30 a.m. to take attendance. Each teacher has between 40 to 50 students who they track on a daily basis. If a student is absent, we call him/her, and we find out where he/she is. For instance, this week there were two students who did not report to work or school; they were absent from PT. I then emailed everyone asking if they knew why these students were absent, and I did not get a response from anyone. Assuming this meant no one knew, I called each student and found that one student was sick and the other student had overslept.
In sum, we continuously meet to implement new ideas and to remove those that are not working. The above summary is a small example of enterprise architecture change, which plays into the larger yearly change for our organization.