Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Modern Digital Landscape (One-Day Course)
Foundations and Context
- Understanding digital disruption, as well as strategies for digital value creation and delivery
- Navigating digital business models within a highly competitive digital market
- Transforming into a data-ready enterprise
- Examining the goal-oriented and data-driven structures within the Business Motivation Model
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Introduction to IT Reference Architectures
- Ensuring convergence and alignment across various frameworks and architectures
- Enhancing decision-making processes through data-driven approaches
- Transitioning from enterprise vision to defined business processes
- Establishing steps to align IT systems with evolving business requirements
Building Agility: Linking Business to IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to accommodate change using goal and data-driven structures from business to IT
- Defining the core of Business Architecture through capabilities and value delivery functions
- Structuring capability evolutions in response to strategic shifts
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies)
Impact on Business Objects and Assets
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects to reflect strategic changes
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components
Impact on IT System Components
- Utilizing goal and data-driven structures of the system backbone to support adaptability
- Identifying Services and underlying system functions affected by changes
- Incorporating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples from the same case study will be provided)
Conclusion
- Outlining the methodology for efficient agile business and system architecture development
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance during periods of change
Note: These interactive training and mentoring sessions utilize a central case study to demonstrate how to maintain strong traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first introduced through case study examples. For on-site sessions, participants may proceed to draft solutions for their own business contexts during the workshop.
Content may undergo minor adjustments to reflect updates in industry standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are respective trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.
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 held by the Open Group.
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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.
