EA Getting Started

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