TOGAF Certification - TOGAF Training

Overview

The module will give you the business and architectural skills to take you from initial engagement through Business, Application and Technology architectures and on to benefits delivery.

The aim of the module is:

• To provide you with Enterprise Architecture awareness and skills and to encourage a thoroughly professional approach to the architectural process.

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for:

• Anyone wishing to learn Enterprise Architecture through practical work on a realistic case study.

Suggested Prior Knowledge

It is recommended that individuals have the relevant knowledge/experience, prior to attending this course:

• Some understanding of business and architecture
• Either Archimate 2.0 part 1 or TOGAF Part 1

Follow-on Courses

• Archimate 2.0
• TOGAF Part 1 and 2

Course Outline

1. Architectural Approaches

• Archimate, TOGAF
• Architectural Domains
• Goals of Business Architecture
• Role of the Business Architect
• Architecture Layers and Aspects
• Work Products: Deliverables, Building Blocks and Artefacts
• Enterprise Architecture Metamodel
• Architectural Land Scape

2. Setting up the Engagement and Understanding the Motivation

• Views, Viewpoints and Stakeholders
• Repository Set up
• Request for Architecture work
• Stakeholders Management
• Drivers, Goals, Objectives and Strategy Maps
• Strategic Questioning, CXO Interviews
• Business Scenarios
• Vision & Scope Document
• Porters Value chain

3. Architecting the Current Business

• Articulating current Business Services and Interfaces
• Modelling the current process with the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
• Mapping the current process to the Business Functions
• Extending the business scenarios to encompass the current process problems

4. Architecting the Target Business

• Analyse the current problems and identify the root cause(s) / identify opportunities
• Target process generation and evaluation
• Modelling the target process
• Mapping Business Scenarios to the Target process
• Gap Analysis of current and target business services and processes
• Aligning target architecture to motivation architecture

5. Architecting the Applications and Data

• Relationship between application data, behaviour and constraints
• Articulating current business services and interfaces
• Identifying the application services to support the target business process
• Designing the Conceptual Data Diagram and an Application Use case diagram to support the services
• Gap analysis of current and target application and data services
• Aligning application architecture to business architecture

6. Architecting the Technology

• Archimate: Structural, Behavioural, Informational Concepts
• Gap analysis of current and target technology
• Aligning technology to application architecture

7. Delivering the Benefits

• Assess organisational readiness: Business Transformation Readiness Assessment
• Implementation factors
• Transition Architectures
• Capability increments
• Developing the transition architecture roadmap
• Implementation Governance
• Managing Architecture Change