This four-day course brings to life the lead selling book on Business Architecture "Business Architecture: A Practical Guide" and the tools and techniques from the Open Group's TOGAF® framework in an informative, energetic and pragmatic way. Through the cumulative experience of our trainers and business colleagues we bring a fresh perspective to the ideas of architecture and specifically enterprise architecture. It doesn't try to reinvent the idea of business architecture or introduce new notations but instead it takes tried and tested methods, techniques, tools and the wealth of experience from practitioners from many fields and presents this myriad of information in an informative and practical way.
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Topics Covered
Today's Dynamics | Understand the macro issues driving the emergence of Enterprise Architecture |
Managing Complexity | Gain an understanding of the challenges of complexity besetting organizations, and introduce how Enterprise Architecture can help |
Architecture Stakeholders | To appreciate who enterprise architects should engage with to be effective |
An Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle | We compare enterprise architecture to city planning and demonstrate that architecture change management is an ongoing activity that needs to be incorporated into your organisations way of thinking. We demonstrate how to use simple tools such as PESTLE analysis to help develop your organisations architecture lifecycle |
Enterprise Architecture Development | Introduce core approaches to Enterprise Architecture Development. We look at why it's so difficult to establish an enterprise practice and how to establish one in a pragmatic manner |
Business Design Principles | To present and discuss the use of principles in the business and design and to provide examples to illustrate and discuss |
Business Environment | In this unit, we will study the various approaches to environmental analysis – an important input to the creation and continuous evolution of an organisation’s architecture |
Architecture Governance | Provide an overview and introduction to processes required to enable architecture governance, examples of governance frameworks, integrating your governance framework with business process models such as Prince and ITIL |
Architecture Levels | Introduce how the Enterprise Architecture is developed at different levels and the circumstances they are used |
Business Architecture Outputs | To provide examples and illustrations of the different language in the marketplace, the types of deliverables expected for use by architects (solution and technical) |
The Core Components of an Enterprise Architecture | We cover components such as a architecture lifecycle, risk and when is it being applied, deliverables, common language, building blocks, capabilities, and governance |
Views and Viewpoints | In this unit you will gain an understanding of the different ways in which to represent the domains of an architecture |
Architecture Capabilities | Understand the nature of business capabilities and equip you with the ability to model capabilities |
Operating Models | Walk through the contents and construction of a target operating model |
Business Process and Methods | To present when and how to approach business process modelling in the context of a Business Architecture and provide the means to establish a consistent business process modelling and documentation style |
Business Transformation and Readiness | Discuss the Canadian governments BTEP and how this can be used to identify risks early in the architecture lifecycle |
Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Planning | Early in the course we establish the difference between Architecture Building Blocks (ABB) and Solution Building Blocks (SBB), using this seperation we show how to represent your architecture logically, maintain that logical model for as long as you can and when all the facts are known assign SBBs to ABBs in accordance with your organisations planning methods |
Establishing a Enterpriase Architecture Practice | To outline the activities that are necessary to operate a sustainable architecture practice |
Architecture Frameworks | To ensure delegates understand what architecture frameworks are and how best to use them |
Reference Models | To ensure delegates understand what reference models are and how best to use them and to provide a list of leading reference models |
Architecture Tools, Meta-models and Standards | To provide a grounding in the issues surrounding tooling to support the core activities of a business architecture practice |