Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Navigating digital disruption, creating digital value, and managing value delivery,
- Adapting digital business models to thrive in a competitive digital environment,
- Building a digital-data-ready enterprise,
- Leveraging the "Goal and Data Driven" structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
- IT Reference Architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between various frameworks and architectures,
- Strengthening decision-making processes on a data-centric basis,
- Refining the Enterprise Vision into actionable Business Processes,
- Aligning IT infrastructure with the evolving needs of the business.
Achieving Agility: Bridging Business and IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change using Goal and Data-Driven structures from business to IT,
- Establishing the backbone of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolutions 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 with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven structures of the System backbone to support changes,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (supported by examples from the same case study).
Conclusion
- Implementing the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance during change.
Note: The training and mentoring sessions 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 proceed to drafting solutions for their own business cases during these sessions.
Content may undergo minor adjustments 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 architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT Reference Architectures owned by 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).
Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
