WA1961
Architecture Foundation Workshop Training
This course provides a balanced experience, deftly blending academic content with practical hands-on lab exercises Attendees will begin the course with an informal collection of architecture concepts, strategies, and work products, and conclude the workshop with a comprehensive approach to organizing and practicing the discipline of architecture.
Course Details
Duration
3 days
Prerequisites
No formal requirements, although previous full life cycle project experience as an analyst, developer, project manager, or architect is preferable.
Target Audience
- Architects
- Team Leaders
- Managers of Architects
- Individuals training to become architects
Skills Gained
- How to think like an architect
- Explore the importance of realizing an architectural vision
- What skills, aptitudes, and capabilities are important for successful architects
- Understanding the importance of an architecture method
- Identify the use of tools and techniques to produce artifacts
- Identify the advantages of using reference models, patterns, and templates
- How to identify, organize, and utilize assets from popular architecture frameworks such as Zachman and TOGAF
- Understand the value and application of a maturity model for architecture
Course Outline
- The Role of the Architect
- The Architect Identity Crisis
- Exercise – “
- What's in a Name?”
- An Architect is NOT... 1/3
- An Architect is NOT... 2/3
- An Architect is NOT... 3/3
- What is the role of the architect?
- Traditional Architects
- The Para
- llel to IT Architecture
- The Softer Side of Architecture
- Architect as a Rosetta Stone
- The Process of Creating an Architecture
- A Day in the Life of an Architect
- Recommended Practices for Architects
- The Meta-Architecture Toolbox
- Exercise – “The Napkin Test”
- The Mind of an Architect
- The Napkin Test
- The Meta-Architecture Toolbox
- The Toolbox
- Toolbox FAQs – 1/2
- Toolbox FAQs – 2/2
- What an Architect Must HAVE
- What an Architect Must DO
- What an Architect May Use – 1/2
- What an Architect May Use – 2/2
- What Every Architect Must Have
- Toolbox Overview
- Essential Knowledge
- Business-focused Domain Knowledge
- Technology-focused Domain Knowledge
- Knowledge Rule of Thumb
- Been There, Done That
- The Importance of Experience
- Essential Experience
- Experience Rule of Thumb
- Exercise – “Knowledge and Skills Inventory”
- The Importance of Aptitudes
- Core Architecture Aptitudes
- Exercise – “Aptitudes Inventory and Survey”
- “Thinking Like an Architect” Survey
- Survey Results
- Adapting to Aptitude Gaps
- Exercise – “Setting Improvement Goals – Bottom Row”
- What Every Architect Must Do
- Toolbox Overview
- The Importance of an Architecture Method
- Popular Methods
- Comparing & Contrasting Methods / Processes
- Exercise – “Describe your Methodology”
- The Value of Structure
- Putting a Method into Action
- Method / Process Gotchas
- Method / Process Rules of Thumb
- Exercise – “Setting Improvement Goals – Middle Row”
- What Every Architect May Use
- Toolbox Overview
- The Purpose of Instruments
- Don't Blame the Instruments
- When Good Instruments Go Bad
- Instrument Rules of Thumb
- Defining Terms
- Using Techniques to Create Artifacts – 1/2
- Using Techniques to Create Artifacts – 2/2
- Sample Techniques and Artifacts
- Techniques and Artifacts Rules of Thumb
- The Purpose of Reference Models
- Popular Reference Models
- Reference Models Rules of Thumb
- Using Patterns and Templates
- Types of Patterns and Templates
- Patterns and Templates Rules of Thumb
- Exercise – “Setting Improvement Goals – Top Row”
- Connecting the Dots
- Toolbox Connections
- Exercise – “Architecture Tools Scattegories”
- Revisiting Some Definitions
- Connecting Techniques to Processes
- Using Instruments to Document the Architecture
- Generating Artifacts from Reference Models
- Incorporating Patterns and Templates into the Process
- Connecting the Dots
- Populating Your Toolbox
- Toolbox Recap
- Cannibalizing Frameworks and Methodologies
- Dissecting the Zachman Framework
- Populating the Toolbox with Zachman Assets
- Dissecting TOGAF
- Populating the Toolbox with TOGAF Assets
- Dissecting Six Sigma
- Populating the Toolbox with Six Sigma Assets
- Dissecting PMI
- Populating the Toolbox with PMI Assets
- Collecting Tools
- Putting it into Action
- Using the Toolbox on a Real Project
- Developing an Approach
- Selecting Assets from the Toolbox – 1/2
- Selecting Assets from the Toolbox – 2/2
- Project Scenario – Background
- Project Scenario – The Approach
- Project Scenario – Using the Assets
- Project Scenario – The Results
- Exercise – “Using the Toolbox”
- The Meta Architecture Maturity Model
- Architecture Risks
- Introducing the Meta Architecture Maturity Model
- Level 0 – Ad Hoc
- Level 1 – Initial
- Level 2 – Repeatable
- Level 3 – Defined
- Level 4 – Managed
- Level 5 – Optimizing
- Progressing in Maturity
- Why Architecture Matters
- Architects
- Architects and Architecture
- Group Discussion
- Enterprise Architecture Definitions (Wikipedia)
- More Enterprise Architecture Definitions
- A Rose By Any Other Name
- Enterprise, Solution, and Technical Architectures
- City Planners
- City Planning and EA
- Examples of Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Examples of Solution Architecture
- Solution Architecture Example: SOA for Insurance
- Technical Architecture
- Examples of Technical Architecture
- Technical Architecture Example
- Architecture Is Not Only Design
- Strategic Architecture
- Architecture Domains
- EA Domains
- Architectural Abstraction Levels
- Each Abstraction Level Has a Unique Goal
- Conceptual Architecture Answers the 'What'
- Conceptual Architecture Example
- Logical Architecture Answers the 'How'
- Logical Architecture Example
- Physical Architecture Answers the 'With What'
- Physical Architecture Examples
- Aligning the Enterprise
