Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, along with the creation and delivery of digital value,
- Navigating digital business models in a competitive digital landscape,
- Transitioning toward a Data-Ready Digital Enterprise,
- The 'Goal and Data-Driven' structures within the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making based on data,
- Refining the enterprise vision into specific business processes,
- Steps for aligning IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Achieving Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change through Goal and Data-Driven Structures from business to IT,
- The core of Business Architecture organized by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into the business process cartography components.
Implications for IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone designed to support change,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures for better governance amidst change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples; for on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business case.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments depending on the evolution of standards and commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.
The Business Model and Value Model Canvases are trademarks held by Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
