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 within a competitive digital landscape,
- Evolving into 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,
- Strengthening decision-making processes through a data-driven foundation,
- Refining the Enterprise Vision to define specific Business Processes,
- Taking steps to align IT systems with evolving business needs.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change, utilizing Goal and Data-Driven Structures from Business to IT Systems,
- Establishing the core of Business Architecture organized around 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 to remain coherent with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into the components of the business process cartography.
Impacts on IT System Components
- Utilizing the Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone to support changes,
- Identifying the Services and underlying System functions affected by changes,
- Integrating these evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided via the same case study).
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance in the face of change.
Note: The training-mentoring sessions above are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain a high level 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 solution drafts tailored to your specific business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments depending 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, the 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.
