Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1 day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, the creation of digital value, and mechanisms for value delivery
- Digital Business Models navigating a competitive digital landscape
- Transitioning into a Digital Data Ready Enterprise
- The "Goal and Data Driven" structures within the Business Motivation Model
- System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- IT Reference Architectures
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures
- Enhancing decision-making processes on a "Data" basis
- Refining the Enterprise Vision toward specific Business Processes
- Steps to align IT with the evolution of business needs
Gaining Agility: From Business to IT System by capitalizing on Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to support change: Implementing Goal and Data Driven Structures from Business to IT Systems
- Establishing the Business Architecture backbone, structured by capabilities and value delivery functions
- Structuring evolutions on capabilities based on changing strategies
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated via presentation case studies)
Impact of Changes upon Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects coherently with strategic changes
- Integrating these modifications into business process cartography components
Impacts on IT System Components
- Utilizing Goal and Data-Driven Structures in the System backbone to support change
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions that must be impacted by changes
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (demonstrated through the same case study)
Conclusion
- Steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology
- Achieving traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to better govern them amidst change
Note: The training-mentoring sessions outlined above are conducted interactively using case studies to illustrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained through case study examples; in on-site sessions, this may be followed by drafting solutions for your own business case during these workshops.
Minor content adjustments may be made depending on the evolution of relevant standards and commercial strategies.
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Testimonials (2)
the practical part
Daniela Mirevska
Course - Business Process Modelling in BPMN 2.0
The trainer shared his knowledge and led great atmosphere.
