How to Engage Us
Engaging Enterprise Architecture early helps you make better decisions, reduce delivery risk, and ensure your solution aligns with the University’s strategy, security requirements, and existing technology landscape.
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Ways to Engage
- Ideas Forum: Share early concepts or problems seeking a technology solution. We help assess feasibility and define the right next steps. Visit the Ideas Forum web page to initiate contact.
- Early Engagement Consultation: Discuss options, risks and alignment before committing to a solution or business case.
- Business Gates: Engage us during capital project approvals to ensure robust design, cost justification and strategic alignment.
- Procurement Support: We provide technical assurance for vendor selection, requirements definition and solution evaluation.
- Technology Improvements: Engage us when upgrading, replacing or re-architecting existing platforms and services.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with us on roadmaps, long-term planning and technology strategy development.
When to engage us
You should engage Enterprise Architecture:
- At the idea or concept stage, before selecting a solution
- When evaluating new technology or suppliers
- For projects requiring investment or governance approval
- When making changes to existing systems or services
- Early engagement allows us to identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities before they become costly or difficult to address.