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.
The course doesn't sell itself as perfection, very little things are. It attempts to show how business can be woven into the very fabric of an organisation and that it should be discipline executed in isolation of other parts of the organisation.
At the end of this course you should be able to
- define what is business architecture
- identify the relationship between business architecture and its stakeholders and the disciplines related to it
- identify the levels within the organisation at which business architecture can be applied and the types or deliverables at those levels
- specify the core components (building blocks) of business architecture
- highlight the practical aspects of establishing a credible business architecture practice, including the critical success factors and the competencies required of a business architect
- identify the resources (materials tools and methods) that exist to, inform, enrich and enable the business architecture capability.
Details
| Course code: | BUSARCH-04 |
| Duration: | 4 days |
| List Price: | £2250 |
| Pre-requisites: | This course is open to a wide community of IT specialist including Business analysts, Designers, Architects, Project managers, System integrators, Business analysts, Program and project managers, and other business and technical specialists engaged in the development of enterprise architectures. |
| Who should attend | This course is open to anyone, but it welcomes those particularly involved in investment and change within their organisation, those who recognise that there is a link between investment decisions and business architecture, those involved in the innovation of new products, services or business propositions, if you need a greater appreciation of business architecture, practising architects and you want to evolve your own architecture and practices, is part of architecture practice that is struggling to gain traction and/or is looking to gain improvements, or is curious about business and you would like to embark on a career in business architecture. |
| Delegates will learn: | The rationale for business architecture, integrating business architecture into your organisation, the process of business architecture, describing business architecture, architecture building blocks, practising business architecture and, architecture resources. |
| Customization: | This course is suitable for customization. |
| Case Study: | This course is supplemented with a case study. |
Topics Covered
| Today's Dynamics | From small businesses to large enterprises there are some common technological patterns that can be observed. We open the course by introducing the world of the enterprise, the past and current attempts that have been made to integrate the many disparate systems within these enterprises. |
| Managing Complexity | What is a distributed system, what function does it serve, and what are the core distributed system principles. How to think and design distributed systems, thinking logically and physically. Client/Server and Peer/Peer architectures. |
| Architecture Stakeholders | The complexities of connecting distributed systems, RPC basics, middleware defined, TCP, UDP and IP, Sockets, Multi-processing vs. Multi-threading, Communication modes and styles, middleware technologies - CORBA, Java RMI, .Net Remoting, MS WCF, SOAP, Web Services, MOMs and DDS. |
| Architecture Life Cycles | Justify the need for an architecture, what is its function, what concerns does it address and how do those concerns get addressed. |
| Business Architecture Development | |
| Business Design Principles | |
| Business Environment | |
| Architecture Governance | |
| Architecture Levels | |
| Business Architecture Outputs | |
| The Elements of Business Architecture | |
| Business Views of the Organisation | |
| Business Capabilities | |
| Operating Models | |
| Business Process and Methods | |
| Overcoming the Barriers to Business Architecture | |
| The Business Architect | |
| Establishing a Business Architecture Practice | |
| Architecture Frameworks | |
| Reference Models | |
| Architecture Tools, Meta-models and Standards |