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 the context of 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,
- Enhancing decision-making processes based on data insights,
- Refining from the Enterprise Vision down to specific Business Processes,
- Strategies to align IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change: applying Goal and Data Driven Structures from the business layer to IT systems,
- The core of Business Architecture, organized by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring evolutionary changes based on capabilities in response to shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case study examples).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects to maintain coherence with strategic shifts,
- 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 designed to support change,
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- The steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to facilitate better governance amidst change.
Note: The aforementioned training and 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 initially explained using case study examples; during on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions to your own business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments based on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are Architecture Frameworks belonging to the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
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.
