Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day workshop)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, the creation and delivery of digital value,
- Digital business models navigating a competitive digital landscape,
- Establishing 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 among these frameworks and architectures,
- Enhancing data-based decision-making processes,
- Refining the enterprise vision into specific business processes,
- Steps to align IT systems with the evolution of business needs.
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems by Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures from the business side to IT systems,
- Structuring the core of Business Architecture around capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies).
Effects of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic shifts,
- Integrating these modifications into business process mapping components.
Implications for IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven structures of the System backbone to facilitate change,
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions that require adaptation to changes,
- Integrating these evolutions into the Service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- The methodology for efficient agile development of Business and System Architecture,
- Ensuring traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to improve governance during periods of change.
Note: These interactive training and mentoring sessions utilize a case study to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first introduced through case study examples; in on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments to reflect updates to standards and commercial strategies.
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DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
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Testimonials (1)
Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.
