Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital Business Models within a competitive digital landscape,
- Establishing a Data-Ready Enterprise,
- The 'Goal and Data Driven' structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring Convergence and Alignment among these Frameworks and Architectures,
- Strengthening Decision-Making processes based on data,
- Refining the Enterprise Vision down to Business Processes,
- Steps to align IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Gaining Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Implementing Goal and Data-Driven Structures from the Business layer to IT Systems,
- The backbone of Business Architecture, structured around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring evolution based on capabilities driven by changing strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (with examples provided in the case study presentation).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into the business process map components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support changes,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions that need to be impacted by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (with 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 to better govern them amid change.
Notice: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively through a case study to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples. In the case of on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business cases during the session.
Minor changes may be made to the content depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks respectively of the Open Group and Zachman International.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks respectively of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures from the Open Group.
The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
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