This four-day course brings to life the lead selling books on Business Architecture "Business Architecture: A Practical Guide" in an informative, energetic and pragmatic way. 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 Business Architecture |
| Managing Complexity | Gain an understanding of the challenges of complexity besetting organizations, and introduce how Business Architecture can help |
| Architecture Stakeholders | To appreciate who business architects should engage with to be effective |
| Architecture Life Cycles | To understand the different ways to engage with the business. This includes both the places in which business architects should engage, and timing of engagement. |
| Business Architecture Development | Introduce core approaches to Business Architecture Development |
| Business Design Principles | To present and discuss the use of principles in business architecture 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 |
| Architecture Levels | Introduce how Business 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 Elements of Business Architecture | To present the different kinds of foundational element that may be used to describe a Business Architecture and to gain appreciation of why we model and document |
| Business Views of the Organisation | In this unit you will gain an understanding of the different ways in which to represent business architecture |
| Business 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 |
| Overcoming the Barriers to Business Architecture | Walk through the DOs and DONTs of architecture practice and to ensure that as architecture practitioners, a focussed is maintained on the needs of the customer and the delivery of value |
| The Business Architect | What sort of person becomes or is a Business Architect? In this unit we walkthrough different aspects of the business architect role |
| Establishing a Business 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 |