Audience
Executives, senior management, line of business managers.
Prerequisites
None
Duration
1 Day
Outline for EA Getting Started Training
Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Introductions
- Course Outline
- Handouts & Appendices
- Practical Application: Building Skills
- Practical Application: Filling Your Toolbox
- Course Evaluation & Questions
- Course Delivery Overview
Chapter 2 - Enterprise Architecture (EA) Primer
- Architecture
- Architects
- Enterprise Architecture Definitions
- IEEE, TOGAF, & MIT Perspectives
- Group Discussion: Expectations of EA
- Enterprise Architecture Defined
- Architecture Framework: Foundation for a Common Vocabulary
- Industry EA Frameworks
- Dimensions of Architecture Scope
- Group Discussion: EA Partitioning
- Architecture Domains
- Depth: Strategic, Segment, and Capability Architectures
- Example: DOE Segment Identification
- Example: Segment Architecture
- Time: Baseline, Target, and Transition Architectures
- Various Solution Architecture Definitions
- Group Discussion: Solution Architecture
- Characteristics of a Solution Architecture
- Example Solution Architecture: SOA for Insurance
- Example Solution Architecture: Customer Contact Center
- Glossary
- Summary
Chapter 3 - EA Framework
- The Importance of a Framework for EA
- TOGAF
- TOGAF Components
- Architecture Development Method (ADM)
- Architecture Content Framework
- Views & Viewpoints
- TOGAF Viewpoints
- Catalogs, Matrices, Diagrams & Viewpoints
- Architecture Deliverables
- ADM Techniques
- ADM Guidelines
- Enterprise to Solution Architecture
- Example: Architecture Roadmap
- Summary
Chapter 4 - EA Value Proposition
- Without Architecture You Can't
- Factors Driving EA Adoption
- Accelerated Rate of Change
- EA Facilitates Change Across Units
- Greater Information Density
- Customers Expect Personalized Goods
- Traditional Industry Barriers are Disintegrating
- Impact of Diversification & Acquisitions
- Shared Resources Across Business Units
- Business Demand for Technology Continues to Grow
- Tight IT Budgets Will Persist
- Primary Drivers for EA Programs
- Summary of EA Benefits
- Digitized Platform: The Key to Agility
- Group Discussion: Benefits
- Value of EA Activities: Baseline Architecture
- Value of EA Activities: Target Architecture
- Value of EA Activities: Architecture Review
- Value of EA Activities: Governance
- Group Discussion: Obstacles
- Summary
Chapter 5 - Reference Architecture
- Reference Architecture
- Reference Architecture Components
- Reference Architecture Summarized
- Reference Architecture Context
- Architecture Principles
- Components of Principles
- Qualities of a Good Set of Principles
- EA Principles: Creation Process
- Templates: Principle & Principle Catalog
- Example: Architecture Principles
- Group Discussion: Principles
- Applying Architecture Principles
- Policies
- Template: Policy
- Example: Governance Policies
- Example: SOA Policy
- Example: Policies
- Reference Models
- Example: IBM Business Analytics & Optimization Reference Architecture
- Example: IBM Insurance Application Architecture
- Example: SOA Reference Architecture
- Example:Customer Experience Reference Architecture
- Business Scenarios
- Business Scenario Summary
- Business Scenario Outline
- Template & Example: Business Scenario
- Practices: Standards & Guidelines
- Example: Interoperability Standards
- Example: Insurance Reporting Reference Architecture
- Example: Electronic Product Code™ (EPC) Standards
- Example: Health Care Reference Architecture
- Resource: Financial Industry Organizations
- Resource: Health Industry Organizations
- Resource: Retail Industry Organizations
- Resource: Technical Organizations
- Industry Organizations
- Insurance Industry Standards ROI
- Requirements
- Example: Mobile Security Reference Architecture
- Example: MSRA Requirements
- Architecture Building Blocks: Reusable Requirement Sets
- Resource: NIST Security Requirements
- Example: COTS Standard Requirements Set
- Summary
Chapter 6 - Enterprise Architecture Baseline
- Importance of an Architecture Baseline
- Architecture Baseline Process Overview
- What are Your EA Baseline Objectives?
- Group Discussion: EA Baseline Goals & Objectives
- A Typical Place to Start
- Core Catalogs
- Core Matrices
- Templates: Baseline Collection Templates
- Creating Building Blocks from a Baseline
- What Can You Learn From Your Baseline
- Customized Taxonomy
- Baseline More Than Software
- Baseline Classified by Lifecycle
- Baseline Relationships
- Relationship Types
- Baseline Reporting
- EA Baseline Best Practices
- Summary
Chapter 7 - The EA Toolbox
- The Architecture Toolbox
- The EA Toolbox
- TOGAF Toolbox Items
- Supplementing TOGAF Toolbox Items
- Practitioner Toolbox Items
- Summary
Chapter 8 - Enterprise Architecture (EA) Program
- Enterprise Architecture Scope of Work
- EA as an Enterprise Asset
- Assess Maturity
- Working with Maturity Models
- Tool: EA Maturity Assessment
- EA Transformation Process
- Establish Organizational Model
- Skills Framework
- Roles
- EA Skills
- Depth of Knowledge
- Generic Skills Matrix
- Business Skills Matrix
- EA Skills Matrix
- Program/Project Skills Matrix
- Apply Project Management Best Practices
- Communications is Very Important!
- Communications Vehicles
- EA Implementation
- EA Maintenance
- EA Action Items to Achieve Your Goals
- Top 10 Leadership Principles of EA
- Summary
Chapter 9 - EA Governance
- What is Governance?
- IT Governance Methodologies
- Characteristics of Governance
- Measures to Govern Enterprise Architecture
- Reference: Weill & Ross Framework
- IT Decision Domains
- Group Discussion
- IT Governance Archetypes
- Template: Decision Domains & Governance Archetypes Matrix
- Implementation Mechanisms
- Example: IT Governance at UPS
- Example: IT Governance at Dupont
- Most Common Governance Patterns
- Top 3 Performing Patterns
- Process: Creating an Effective IT Governance
- COBIT
- Example: Governance Structure
- Example: Governance Process Flow
- Example: Integrating Governance into the Organization
- Governance Best Practices
- Governance With Little Standards or Target
- More Governance Lessons Learned
- Summary
Chapter 10 - Recommendations
- Start with the Basics
- Build Your Toolbox
- Governance with Little Standards or Target
- Governance Lessons Learned
Handout 1 - Sample Principles
- Business Principles
- Data Principles
- Application Principles
- Technology Principles
- Governance Principles
- SOA Governance Principles
Handout 2 - Enterprise Architecture Maturity Scorecard
Appendix A - Reference Library
- Overview
- Industry Organizations
- References & Further Reading
Appendix B - Architecture Glossary
- ABC
- DEF
- GHI
- MNO
- PQR
- STU
- VWXYZ
Appendix C - EA Catalogs, Matrices, & Diagrams
- Catalogs
- Matrices
- Diagrams