The Pen is Mightier

All models are wrong, some are useful  -George E.P. Box It's been a hot minute (ok, not really a minute, more like a long and agonizing 3 year Pandemic) since I offered an SCA Value Map.  I have a couple of updates coming in light of the most recent Board of Directors meeting (April 2023).  Additionally, I wish to support of Master Aeron Harper/ David Biggs' work on improper sanctions handed down by the Board:  A Tale of 6 Sanctions    And Mistress Iselda de Narbonne/ Alexandra Evans'  petition to the BoD to restructure the organization. First: Context for this article In September of 2020 I offered some professional insight on the value of a paid SCA membership during the time period when the SCA was struggling with not being able to attend events in person.  At the same time the Board of Directors asked it's participants to buy paid memberships.  I did an analysis of what the "Pre-pandemic" and "Current Pandemic" value of an SCA member...

If you are reading this, without reading Part 1: A Value Map for SCA Membership, I want you to stop, click on this link, and read Part1 .  Part 2 assumes you have watched and digested the first post.  If you have not done that, Part 2 will be more confusing than helpful. Assuming you have read Part 1, please read on. So now you are asking: Meggie? What does this all mean? What are the implications of what you wrote?  And what do we do about it? Ok, let’s pretend that we have 3 SCAdians. Svenna: A Heavy List/Chivalric Fighter intent on winning crown.  Svenna has two kids who sometimes go with her to events, but her wife does not play in the SCA. Svenna has a single membership. Fredrich: A Thrown Weapons Marshal, who is active in his local chapter.  Fredrich has a single membership. Alysone and Alphonse:   A Middle Eastern Dancer and their partner, a musician.  Neither of them are active in their local chapter. They have a family membership...

In my mundane life I am a member of the Business Architecture Guild, currently working for an IT Enterprise Architecture department, practicing Business Architecture, and studying for my Business Architecture certification exam.  Business Architecture is a discipline that allows the practitioners to abstract an enterprise, and the business ecosystem in which it operates, in order to allow the managers of the enterprise to think about business in a non operational/strategic way. It is a communication and analytical framework for translating strategy into actionable initiatives.  In my elevator speech to C-Suite folks I say that practicing BA is like developing the network diagram you see hanging on the wall in an IT Architecture Department, only it represents the business, not the technology. A completed business architecture are the blueprints of the business; a map of concepts, definitions and models that describe how an organization creates value for its stakeholders.  ...