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Introduction

  • Defining an Agile Enterprise and its Enterprise Architecture
  • Comparing the purposes of Zachman’s Enterprise Architecture with US FEAF / CISR

Key Components of Business Architecture for an Agile Enterprise

  • Business Architecture: The critical link between business strategy and enterprise architecture
  • The interconnections between Business Architecture, BPM, and SOA
  • Business Motivation Model (BMM) versus Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) and other business models
  • Core structures and relationships in the Business Motivation Model (including SWOT analysis, business vision, goals, objectives, missions, strategies, and tactics) leading to business processes
  • Guiding the Operating Enterprise through Balanced Score Cards
  • The OMG’s Business Architecture Views: Tracing from Strategy to Organizational views via Business Capabilities and Processes
  • Process Modeling: Essential elements and best practices
  • Process Modeling using BPMN tailored to the language of business owners and analysts: Fundamentals, processes, sub-processes, activities, tasks, pools, lanes, event typologies, gateways, synchronization, connectors, message flows, compensations, and best practices
  • Overview of tools for process modeling, execution, and monitoring
  • Utilizing BPMN and UML to model Business Processes and Business Objects (Resources)
  • Case Study: Refining goals from the business vision down to business processes and resources

Achieving Agility in Business Processes with BPMN and UML 2

  • Strategies for modeling business processes to make underlying IT systems more responsive to change
  • Using BPMN, UML, and SoaML to support modifications in business process and object models
  • Updating target architecture business models by adjusting strategies and leveraging Business Capabilities
  • Case Study: Developing an agile process and resource model that is easy to maintain amidst changes

Adapting "Business Models" to Changes in Business Requirements

  • Modeling changes in goals, strategies, tactics, and business rules
  • Methods for adapting processes and resources in alignment with these evolutions
  • Case Study: Modifying business processes and resources to meet changing business requirements and rules

Conclusion

  • Steps toward efficient Agile Process and Resource Modeling
  • Frameworks for tracing business requirements from Business Motivation Model elements to IT structures to improve governance in the face of change

Note: For on-site workshop delivery, we can customize the content and case studies to suit your specific needs and business context, providing a solid starting point and roadmap. Additionally, we can offer follow-up review sessions to validate that your architecture solutions align with your business needs.

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