STRATEGIC MODELLING FOR BUILDING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

3-Day Public or In-house Overview Course for Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture, in 3-month Increments

Presented by Clive Finkelstein

Contents

• Introduction

• Objectives

• Audience

• Course Outline

• Instructor

Introduction

Enterprise Architecture is essential to achieve business integration and technology integration in today's complex business environment. This is recognized by organizations and governments world-wide. Unfortunately most Enterprise Architecture projects to-date have been multi-year, high-cost projects before any value is delivered.

This 3-day course provides an overview of the methods and technologies that enable priority business activities and processes, as identified by management, to be delivered into production rapidly, in 3-month increments. These methods identify common shared data, enterprise-wide. They enable reusable business processes to be implemented once, yet shared throughout the enterprise. This saves not only on development time and cost, but also on day-to-day operational costs of the resulting shared, common processes.

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Objectives

• Gain an Appreciation why Rapid Delivery Methods are needed today for Success with Enterprise Architecture

• Gain an Overview of which Rapid-Delivery Enterprise Architecture Methods and Technologies have been used Successfully by Government and Corporate organizations

• Gain an Overview of how Common, Reusable Business Activities and Processes can be identified as Priorities for Early Delivery into Production

• Gain an Introduction to Methods used to Derive Project Plans from Integrated Data Models, to manage these Priority Activities and Processes through Rapid Development into Production

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Audience

CIO, CTO, Government Program Managers, Business Managers, Business Experts, IT Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Enterprise Architects.

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Course Outline

An Overview of the Strategic Modelling Methods that are used for Rapid Delivery of Enterprise Architecture

1. ESTABLISHING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE DIRECTIONS

• Strategic e-Government and e-Business directions from Day 1

• Management priorities, governance and security issues

• Zachman Framework concepts and rules

• Methodologies for EA Reference Models plus C4ISR and DoDAF for Defense

2. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE RAPID DELIVERY PROJECTS

• Real world examples of e-Government and e-Business projects for rapid delivery of priority Enterprise Architecture areas

• Criteria for Success, with potential failure issues to avoid

3. ASSURING INTEGRATION: BUSINESS DATA MAPPING FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

• Strategy-driven Data Modelling methods to transform business models into implementation

• Applying Enterprise Engineering disciplines and proven methodologies

• Resolution of semantic issues

4. FACILITATED STRATEGIC MODELING FOR e-GOVERNMENT AND e-BUSINESS

• In this facilitated session, team members learn how strategic modeling enables rapid delivery

• How to transform Business models to integrated databases and reusable processes

• Identifying priority activities for rapid delivery

5. BUSINESS NORMALIZATION TO IDENTIFY FUTURE e-GOVERNMENT  AND e-BUSINESS NEEDS

• Business Normalization methods applied by business experts and IT

• Methods and rules for business model to systems model transformations

• Identifying further business data needs and activities that indicate business opportunities

6. VALIDATING ALIGNMENT GOALS AND PLANS

• Through this Interactive Workshop, team members learn how to identify e-Government and e-Business integration opportunities that are achieved through Strategic Alignment

• Engaging Executive Management in Security and Governance Analysis Frameworks

• Aligning Models across rows and columns to realise business integration opportunities

7. DERIVING PROJECT PORTFOLIOS FOR RAPID DELIVERY OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

• In this Interactive Workshop, team members will learn important steps for deriving project plans and prioritizing implementation efforts based on data models, business plans and business rules.

• Refining project scope and deliverables for rapid sub-project deliveries in 3-month increments

• Balancing mandates, business plans and resource demands

• Demonstrating alignment and integration

8. DESIGN AND DELIVERY PERSPECTIVES

• Interactive Case Study session using learned methods to transform priority areas into Design and Delivery perspectives

9. OPPORTUNITY, ROI AND COST ANALYSIS METHODS FOR e-GOVERNMENT AND e-BUSINESS

• Costing methods to analyze e-Government and e-Business opportunities for efficiency, cost effectiveness and Return on Investment (ROI)

• Evaluating implementation alternatives

10. BRIDGING THE GAP: PORTFOLIO ALIGNMENT FOR e-GOVERNMENT AND e-BUSINESS

• Case Study session aligns transformed Business Models to Design Architecture across all columns of the Zachman Framework

11. VALIDATING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE ALIGNMENT AND DELIVERABLES

• Case Study session to test all e-Government and e-Business deliverables developed in earlier workshops for completeness

• Determining Enterprise Architecture deliverables for business priority alignment

• Documentation of Enterprise Architecture Plan (EAP) for rapid delivery of priority areas into production in 3-month increments for success of e-Government and e-Business strategies

12. e-GOVERNMENT AND e-BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION

• Policies, roles and responsibilities

• e-Government Program Office strategies

• Communications, Promotion and Architecture access

• Sustaining executive involvement through Governance Analysis Frameworks for Audit and Security Internal Control Reporting

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Instructor

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