ACAITA Partnership Recommendation

There are a number of groups, professional associations, organizations involved with developing and forwarding the practice of IT architecture. The ones I see relevant to developing an IT Architecture association are as follows;

1. IASA - An association for all IT Architects
2. OpenGroup - Vendor neutral IT standards and certifications
3. AEA - Association of Enterprise Architects
4. EACOE - Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence
5. FEAC - Training and Certification Institution for Enterprise Architects
6. ISC - Vendor-neutral education products, career services, and Gold Standard credentials to professionals.
7. CIPS - Canada's association of Information Technology (IT) professionals
8. BAG - Business Architecture Guild 

I believe any of these have valuable resources that could support, and be useful to, the ACAITA membership. I believe the IASA provides the broadest view into architecture, where the other organizations are more focused on an area of architecture, such as; security, business, the enterprise, or IT in general.

I recommend the ACAITA aligns itself with two or three of these groups / associations as determined by the resources they can make available toward growing the architectural capabilities of Atlantic Canadians. To start, I believe a few of us should consider becoming full members of the IASA Canada chapter with the intention to form the Atlantic Canada chapter. I also recommend we align ourselves with one or two of the training and certification groups... I believe this can wait until we have our association alignment.