Course Outline
Agility in Business and IT Systems in the Digital Era (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, along with the creation and delivery of digital value
- Digital business models navigating a competitive digital environment
- Establishing a data-ready digital enterprise
- The goal-and-data-driven structures within the Business Motivation Model
- Frameworks for System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture
- IT Reference Architectures
- Ensuring convergence and alignment among these frameworks and architectures
- Enhancing data-driven decision-making processes
- Refining the enterprise vision into detailed business processes
- Steps for aligning IT with the evolving needs of the business
Achieving Agility: Bridging Business and IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to accommodate change, utilizing goal and data-driven structures from the business layer to IT systems
- The core of Business Architecture, organized by 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 cartography components
Implications for IT System Components
- The goal- and data-driven system backbone structures that support change
- Identifying services and underlying system functions affected by changes
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (demonstrated through the same case study)
Conclusion
- Steps in the efficient methodology for developing agile business and system architecture
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT system structures for better governance during changes
Note: The aforementioned training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to ensure a strong level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are initially explained through case study examples; during on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business case.
Content may undergo minor adjustments based on the evolution of standards and commercial strategies.
Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International, respectively.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defense, and NATO, respectively.
IT4IT is a trademark of the Open Group for IT Reference Architectures.
The Business Model Canvas and Value Model Canvas are trademarks of Osterwalder and Pigneur.
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.
