Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, along with the creation and delivery of digital value
- Digital Business Models in response to a competitive digital landscape
- Transitioning into a Digital 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 specific Business Processes
- Steps to align IT with the evolution of business needs
Achieving Agility: From Business to IT System by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: The Goal and Data-Driven Structures from 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 through presentation case studies)
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes to ensure coherence
- Integrating these modifications into the components of business process cartography
Impacts on IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support change
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study)
Conclusion
- Steps in the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology
- Traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance in the face of change
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using case studies to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples; during on-site sessions, these may be followed by solution drafts tailored to your own business case.
Content may be subject to minor adjustments depending on the evolution of 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, the UK Ministry of Defence, 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, 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.
