Course Outline
Achieving Business and IT Agility in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery.
- Navigating digital business models within a competitive digital landscape.
- Strategies for becoming a Data-Ready Enterprise.
- Exploring the "Goal and Data-Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model.
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
- Introduction to IT Reference Architectures.
- Methods for ensuring convergence and alignment among these frameworks and architectures.
- Strengthening decision-making processes through data-driven insights.
- Refining the transition from Enterprise Vision to Business Processes.
- Key steps to align IT systems with evolving business needs.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven Structures across business and IT.
- Structuring the Business Architecture backbone through capabilities and value delivery functions.
- Strategies for structuring evolution based on capabilities in response to changing business strategies.
- Techniques for 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 changes.
- Integrating these modifications into the components of the business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support change.
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that require modification due to change.
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided via the same case study).
Conclusion
- Key steps of an effective Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology.
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to enhance governance in the face of change.
Please note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained using case study examples. For on-site sessions, this may be followed by the development of solution drafts tailored to your specific business cases during the sessions.
Minor adjustments to the content may occur depending on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks developed by the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures held by the Open Group.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
Testimonials (2)
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Agile Business Analysis
comparing theory to practical life