Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, along with digital value creation and delivery mechanisms.
- Navigating Digital Business Models within a competitive digital landscape.
- Building a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise.
- Leveraging the "Goal and Data Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model.
- Exploring System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
- Reviewing IT Reference Architectures.
- Ensuring Convergence and Alignment between these Frameworks and Architectures.
- Enhancing decision-making processes through a "Data"-centric approach.
- Refining the Enterprise Vision down to specific Business Processes.
- Implementing steps to align IT with the evolution of business needs.
Building Agility: Leveraging Capabilities to Bridge Business and IT Systems
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change, utilizing Goal and Data Driven Structures from business to IT.
- Establishing the backbone of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions.
- Structuring evolutions on capabilities based on shifting strategies.
- 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 to remain consistent with strategic shifts.
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Implications for IT System Components
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support change.
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions that must adapt to changes.
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (demonstrated through the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology.
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance amidst change.
Note: The training and mentoring sessions described above are conducted interactively using case studies to demonstrate how to maintain high levels of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained through case study examples; in on-site sessions, participants may follow up by drafting solutions for their own business cases during these interactions.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments depending on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are respectively trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are respectively Architecture Frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures held by the Open Group.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, and SysML, as 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.
