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Introduction

  • Defining the Agile Enterprise and its Enterprise Architecture
  • Comparing enterprise architecture purposes across Zachman, US FEAF, and CISR frameworks

Elements of the Business Architecture for an Agile Enterprise

  • Business Architecture: The critical link between business strategy and enterprise architecture
  • Interconnections between Business Architecture, BPM, and SOA
  • Comparing the Business Motivation Model (BMM) with Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) and other business models
  • Core structures and relationships in the Business Motivation Model (including SWOT analysis, business vision, goals, objectives, missions, strategies, and tactics) and their impact on business processes
  • Guiding the operating enterprise using Balanced Score Cards
  • OMG Business Architecture Views: Progressing from Strategy View to Organizational View via Business Capabilities and Processes
  • Process Modeling: Essential elements and best practices
  • Process Modeling with BPMN adapted for business owners and analysts: Basics, processes, sub-processes, activities, tasks, pools, lanes, detailed events, gateway typology, synchronization, connectors, message flows, compensations, and best practices
  • Overview of tools for process modeling, execution, and monitoring
  • Utilizing BPMN and UML to model Business Processes and Business Objects (Resources)
  • Case Study: Refining goals from Business Vision down to Business Processes and Resources

Gaining Agility with Business Processes using BPMN and UML 2

  • Strategies for modeling business processes to make underlying IT systems more responsive to change
  • Using BPMN, UML, and SoaML to support modifications in business process and business object models
  • Updating target architecture business models by adjusting strategies through Business Capabilities
  • Case Study: Developing an agile process and resource model that is easy to maintain amidst changes

Adapting "Business Models" to Changes in Business Requirements

  • Modeling changes in goals, strategies, tactics, and business rules
  • Methods for adapting processes and resources coherently with these evolutions
  • Case Study: Adapting business processes and resources to shifting business requirements and rules

Conclusion

  • Key steps for efficient Agile Process and Resource Modeling
  • Frameworks for tracing business requirements from Business Motivation Model elements to IT structures to improve governance amidst change

Note: For on-site delivery of this workshop, we can tailor the content and case studies to your specific business needs to provide a strong starting point and roadmap. Following the workshop, we can also support you through review sessions to validate your architecture solutions against your business requirements.

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