Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Era (1-day Course)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, creating and delivering digital value,
- Digital business models in a competitive digital environment,
- Establishing a data-ready digital enterprise,
- Utilizing the goal and data-driven structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Strategies to ensure convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing decision-making through data-driven insights,
- Refining the enterprise vision down to business processes,
- Steps for aligning IT with evolving business needs.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: goal and data-driven structures from business to IT,
- The backbone of business architecture, structured around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolution based on changing strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The goal and data-driven structures of the system backbone to facilitate change,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Key steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT system structures for better governance in the face of change.
Note: These interactive training and mentoring sessions utilize a case study to demonstrate how to maintain high-level traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first introduced through case study examples. In on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business context.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments based on updates to 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, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
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).
Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
