Course Outline
Agile Business and IT Systems in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, including value creation and delivery mechanisms,
- Digital business models navigating a competitive digital landscape,
- Transitioning into 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 processes through a data-centric approach,
- Refining the enterprise vision to define business processes,
- Aligning IT with the evolving demands of the business.
Building Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Connect Business and IT Systems
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to accommodate change: applying goal- and data-driven structures from the business side to IT systems,
- Establishing a business architecture backbone organized around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions based on shifting strategic priorities,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through presentation case studies).
The 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
- Utilizing goal- and data-driven structures within the system backbone to support change,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided via the same case study).
Conclusion
- Key steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Maintaining traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance during times of change.
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to establish strong traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained through case study examples; for on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case during the sessions.
Content may undergo minor adjustments based on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
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 Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML, as 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.
