Putting Enterprise Architecture in Practice Training Course

Designing your Enterprise Architecture in Practice (3 days for Certified Architects or people that are interested in putting EA in practice)

Objective : This course aims at helping attendees understand how to put TOGAF® 9.1 in practice using ArchiMate and UML to meet the enterprise business strategies.

Concepts and techniques explained during the course are progressively applied by the attendees using a case study and different exercises on it.

Detailed Description :

Essential concepts of TOGAF® (Reminder) and Introduction to ArchiMate 3.0

• Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
• The Architecture Development Method (ADM) of TOGAF® and its phases,
• The Architecture Repository and its evolution on the basis of the ADM phases,
• Drivers, Strategies, Capabilities, Principles and ViewPoints in TOGAF®,
• Enterprise Continuum to structure the repository and other tools of TOGAF®,
• Governance of the programs and projects : The Architecture Capability Framework,
• The Enterprise Architecture Governance and its role in the enterprise transformation,
• TOGAF® Corporate EA, IT, SOA and security governance,
• Architecture and enterprise strategy,
• Engagement and contracts of the architecture,
• Realizing Strategies on a Capability basis, Elements of the Architecture Content Framework,
• Introduction to the ArchiMate modeling language, its meta-models and viewpoints,

• Case Study: Presentation of the Case Study - an enterprise transformation issue (current state, target state). High-Level organization of the enterprise architecture,

Business Transformation : From Drivers, Goals and Objectives to the Architecture Vision

• Re-formulating the enterprise strategy and its activity domains,
• Assigning new responsibilities to existing capabilities,
• Horizontal and vertical impact analysis to ensure coherent deployment of the Target Architecture,
• Managing the performance level of target capabilities,
• A tentative impact analysis to elaborate target functions using UML,
• The business architecture with ArchiMate, its meta-model and motivation viewpoints,
• Determining business functions using ArchiMate Viewpoints,
• Risk factors and Mitigation Actions upon business functions,

• Exercise on the Case Study
  • On the basis of strategies and baseline capabilities, assign responsibilities to existing capability components, make the impact analysis to ensure a coherent future deployment of the target architecture,
  • Plan risk mitigation actions related to business functions.

Structuring Capabilities to mitigate risks and analyze Impacts throughout Architecture Layers

• The application & technology architecture of ArchiMate, their meta-model and viewpoints,
• Structure Capabilities to track risk mitigation by function, adapt them to changing goals,
• Align the SOA backbone of the Target Architecture with emerging business functions, underlying services and SLAs,
• Adapting related Business Process Models to strategic changes,
• Impact Analysis of changing capabilities until the technology layer,
• Exercise on the Case Study
  • Structure Capabilities to mitigate risks,
  • Elaborate SLAs for Services exposed by Business Functions,
  • Assess Impacts of changing capabilities from Business till the Technology layer.

Modeling the Roadmap, Transition Architectures to Coordinate Implementation Projects

• Identify components of the potential architecture roadmap :
  • gaps between initial and target technical architecture,
  • consolidated RoadMap to reach the Target Architecture,
• Transition Architectures and matrices for incremental architecture definitions,
• Capability Increments for Transition Architectures,
• Work packages by consolidating gaps, potential solutions and dependencies,
• Work Packages of Actions to implement capability increments,
• Management of projects portfolio for assessing business values of the projects on the basis of risks,
• ‘Coordinating’ Implementation Projects using RoadMap Modeling,

• Exercise on the Case Study :
  • On the basis of the enterprise target architectures previously elaborated, establish the consolidated gap & dependencies matrix and define the work packages,
  • Coordinate Implementation Projects on the basis of business values and appropriate transition architectures to meet constraints of the consolidated target architecture.

Plugging Solution Building Blocks into Capability Based SOA Backbone

• From the Functional Architecture to Service Oriented Architecture,
• Architecture and solution building blocks,
• Information flows between services,
• Constraints upon service components of the technical architecture,
• Determining expected behaviors from Solution Building Blocks,
• Plugging Solution Building Blocks into the Capability Based SOA Backbone,

• Exercise on the Case Study
  • Define the architecture backbone of the SOA building blocks on the basis of capabilities and services
  • Use them to prepare the « plug-in » of solution building blocks components

Conclusion

• Recap on the steps of the Architecture Development Process, a panorama
• Best Practices for efficient usage of ArchiMate and UML Diagrams throughout TOGAF® ADM

In case of "on-site" delivery of such a workshop session, we may also adapt its content and case studies to your needs and business case in order to provide you with a good starting point and roadmap. After this workshop, we can also accompany you through review sessions for validating your architecture solutions conformance to your business needs.

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