Course Outline

Unit 1 – Concepts

• Enterprise
• Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
• Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture
• Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Domains
• Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Continuum
• Architecture Repository
• The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
• Architecture Capability for Enterprise Architecture
• Risk Management
• Gap Analysis

Unit 2 – Stakeholder Management

• How to Identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication Involved?
• Use of Architecture Views
• Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management
• Using Trade-offs to Support Architecture Development

Unit 3 – Phase A, the Starting Point

• Information Necessary to Execute the Architecture Vision Phase
• How to Apply Phase A and how it Contributes to Architecture Development Work?
• Security-Specific Architecture Design that is Sufficient — Phase A
• Outputs Necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Development

Unit 4 – Architecture Development

• Steps Applicable to all ADM Phases
• Risk and Security Considerations During the Architecture Development (ADM Phases B to D)
• Relevant Information to Produce Outputs Valuable to the Architecture Development
• How to Apply Phases B, C, and D, and How they Contribute to the Architecture Development Work
• Information Relevant to Phase C (Data and Applications) to Produce Outputs for the Architecture Development
• Information Needed in Phase D to Produce Outputs Relevant to the Architecture Development
• Outputs of Phases B, C, and D Necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Development Work

Unit 5 – Implementing the Architecture

• Risk and Security Considerations for Phases E, F, and G
• Steps (Phase E) to Create the Implementation and Migration Strategy
• Basic Approaches to Implementation
• Identifying and Grouping Work Packages
• Creating and Documenting Transition Architectures
• Impact of Migration Projects on the Organisation and the Coordination Required
• Why and How Business Value is Assigned to each Work Package?
• How to Prioritise the Migration Projects (Phase F)
• Confirm the Architecture Roadmap (Phase F)
• Outputs of Phase F necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Implementation
• Inputs to Phase G Implementation Governance
• How Implementation Governance is Executed (Phase G)?
• Outputs to Support Architecture Governance
• How Architecture Contracts are Used to Communicate with Implementers?

Unit 6 – Architecture Change Management

• Inputs Triggering Change Management — Change Requests
• Activities Necessary for Effective Change Management (Stakeholder Management)
• Outputs Relevant to Proceed with a Change

Unit 7 – Requirements Management

• Inputs that Feed the Requirements Management Phase
• How do the Requirements Management Steps Correspond to ADM Phase Steps?
• Purpose of the Outputs of Requirements Management

Unit 8 – Supporting the ADM Work

• How the Open Group TOGAF® Library can be Used to Support the Practitioner’s Work?
• Business Scenarios
• Purpose of Compliance Assessments
• How Migration Planning Techniques are used to Review and Consolidate the Gap Analysis Results from Earlier Phases?
• How a Repository can be Structured Using the TOGAF® Architecture Repository as an Example?
• What to Expect in a well-run Architecture Repository?
• How the Concepts of Architecture Levels are used to Organise the Architecture Landscape?
• Different Levels of Architecture that Exist in an Organisation
• Determining the Level that an Architecture is Being Developed
• Role of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
• Guidelines and Techniques for Business Architecture
• Applying Gap Analysis
• How Iteration can be used in Architecture Practices?
• How the Implementation Factor Catalogue can be Used?
• Content Framework and the Enterprise Metamodel
• When the Architecture Content Framework (ACF) needs to be Filled throughout the ADM Cycles
• Using an Enterprise Metamodel
• Using a Taxonomy
• How Risk Assessment can be Used?