Enterprise Architecture Overview

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Enterprise Architecture Overview

author

Bernard Szlachta (bs@NobleProg.co.uk)

Course Description ⌘

• This course is for everyone involved in planning, analysing, implementing, executing, maintaining or improving Enterprise Architectures.
• It shows comprehensive perspective of tools used to describe and implement the EA.

Course Outline⌘

• Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Methods, Frameworks, Concepts and Paradigms
• Architecture Analysis
• Other

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture ⌘

• What is architecture
• Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• Why do we need EA
• IT Enterprise Architecture
• Business Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Description vs EA Implementation

Enterprise Architecture Methods, Frameworks, Concepts and Paradigms ⌘

EA, Governance and Strategic Planning

• Strategic Management, Strategic Planning
• OMG Business Motivation Model
• Strategy Execution (EFQM)
• Quality Management(Six Sigma, TQM, ISO 9001)
• IT Governance
• IT Service Delivery and Support (ITIL)
• IT Implementation (CMMI)
• Business Process Management (BPM)

Methods and Frameworks

• IEEE Standards
• Zachman Framework
• TOGAF
• MDA
• SOA
• Nato Architecture Framework, MoDAF, DoDAF, UPDM

Enterprise Architecture Methods, Frameworks, Concepts and Paradigms ⌘

Description Languages

• IDEF
• BPMN
• SoaML
• UML
• ArchiMate
• Architecture Description Languages
• Suitability for EA

Enterprise Architecture Modelling

• Modelling Process
• Readability and Usability of Models
• Viewpoints and Visualisation

Architecture Analysis ⌘

• Analysis Techniques
• Quantitative Analysis
• Functional Analysis

Other ⌘

• Architecture Alignment
• Tool Support