Course Outline
Agility for Business and IT Systems in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, creating and delivering digital value,
- Navigating digital business models within a competitive digital landscape,
- Establishing a data-ready digital enterprise,
- Leveraging the goal- and data-driven structures of 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 based on data,
- Refining the enterprise vision into specific business processes,
- Steps to align IT with the evolution of business needs.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems Using Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: applying goal- and data-driven structures from business to IT systems,
- Structuring the business architecture backbone around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Organising capability evolution based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Applying goal- and data-driven structures to the system backbone to support change,
- Identifying Services and underlying system functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided using the same case study).
Conclusion
- The efficient agile Business and System Architecture development methodology,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance in the face of change.
Note: The training and mentoring sessions above are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain high traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples. In the case of on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business case during the session.
Minor adjustments to content may be made depending on the evolution of these 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 Model Canvas and Value Model 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)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
