Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Understanding digital disruption, along with the creation and delivery of digital value
- Navigating digital business models within a competitive digital environment
- Establishing a Digital Data-Ready Enterprise
- Implementing the "Goal and Data Driven" structures found in the Business Motivation Model
- Overview of System Engineering and Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Exploration of IT Reference Architectures
- Ensuring Convergence and Alignment among these Frameworks and Architectures
- Enhancing decision-making processes by relying on a "Data" foundation
- Transitioning from Enterprise Vision to detailed Business Processes
- Defining the steps to align IT with evolving business needs
Building Agility: From Business to IT Systems through Capabilities
- Preparing Enterprise and IT System Architectures to accommodate change: Applying Goal and Data-Driven Structures from Business to IT
- The core of Business Architecture, organized around capabilities and value delivery functions
- Structuring capability evolution based on shifting strategic priorities
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (illustrated through a presentation case study)
Impact 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
Effects on IT System Components
- The Goal and Data-Driven Structures of the System backbone designed to support change
- Identifying Services and underlying System functions affected by changes
- Integrating evolutions into the Service backbone (examples drawn from the same case study)
Conclusion
- Outlining the steps of the Efficient Agile Business and System Architecture Development Methodology
- Establishing traceability from business strategies to IT System structures to improve governance amid change
Note: The training and mentoring sessions described above are conducted interactively using a case study to demonstrate how to maintain a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Key concepts are first explained through case study examples. In the case of on-site sessions, these may be followed by drafting solutions for your specific business context during the session.
Minor content adjustments may occur to reflect updates to 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.
