Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, and the creation and delivery of digital value,
- Digital Business Models navigating a competitive digital landscape,
- Transforming into a Data-Ready 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,
- Strengthening decision-making processes based on data,
- Refining the Enterprise Vision into concrete Business Processes,
- Steps for aligning IT with evolving business requirements.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures from the Business to IT Systems,
- The core of Business Architecture, structured around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via a presentation case study).
The 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
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support changes,
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions that need modification,
- 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,
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance during change.
Note: The aforementioned training-mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are introduced through case study examples; in on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments 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).
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