Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, along with digital value creation and delivery
- Navigating Digital Business Models in a competitive digital environment
- Transitioning into a Data-Ready Digital Enterprise
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Review of IT Reference Architectures
- Strategies to ensure convergence and alignment between various frameworks and architectures
- Enhancing decision-making processes through a data-centric approach
- Refining the Enterprise Vision into specific Business Processes
- Steps to align IT systems with evolving business requirements
Achieving Agility: From Business to IT Systems via Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures from Business to IT
- Building a Business Architecture backbone structured around capabilities and value delivery functions
- Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategic priorities
- 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 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 adaptability
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes
- Integrating these evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study)
Conclusion
- Key steps in an Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance during periods of change
Note: The training and mentoring sessions outlined above are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain high levels of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained using case study examples. In on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions applied to your own business case.
Minor content adjustments may occur based on the evolution of relevant 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 the 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 and Value Model Canvases 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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