COURSE OUTLINE:

Unit 1: Introduction and 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

·      TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel

·      Architecture Capability for Enterprise Architecture

·      Risk Management

·      Gap Analysis

Unit 2: Definitions

·      Various Definition

·      Understand Relevant Terminology

Unit 3: Introduction to the ADM Phases

·      TOGAF® ADM and its Phases

·      “Draft” and “Approved” Deliverables

·      Iteration and the ADM

·      Governing the Creation, Development, and Maintenance of Enterprise Architecture

·      How to Scope an Architecture?

·      Architecture Alternatives, Concerns, and Trade-Off

·      Purposes

·      Objectives

·      Information Flow Between ADM Phases

·      How Developing Architecture can be Applied to Support Agile Software Development

Unit 4: Introduction to ADM Techniques

·      How the ADM and Supporting Guidelines and Techniques Relate to Each Other?

·      Purpose: Architecture Principles

·      Template for Architecture Principles

·      What Makes a Good Architecture Principle?

·      Business Scenarios

·      The Purpose of Gap Analysis

·      Interoperability

·      Business Transformation Readiness Assessment

·      Risk Management and the TOGAF® ADM

Unit 5: Introduction to Applying the ADM

·      How to Apply the TOGAF® Standard?

·      Iteration and the ADM

·      The Three Levels of the Architecture Landscape

·      Partitioning to Simplify the Development of an Enterprise Architecture

·      Purpose-Based Architecture Projects

·      Applying the TOGAF® Standard to Support the Digital Enterprise

Unit 6: Introduction to Architecture Governance

·      Architecture Governance

·      Why Architecture Governance is Beneficial?

·      Role of an Architecture Board and its Responsibilities

·      Architecture Contracts

·      Architecture Compliance

Unit 7: Architecture Content

·      Key Concepts: Stakeholders, Concerns, Architecture Views, Architecture Viewpoints, and their Relationships

·      Building Blocks and the ADM

·      The TOGAF® Standard Deliverables Created and Consumed in the TOGAF ADM Phases

Unit 8 – Concepts

·      Enterprise

·      The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture

·      The Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture

·      A Framework for Enterprise Architecture

·      Architecture Domains

·      Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture

·      The Enterprise Continuum

·      The Architecture Repository

·      The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel

·      An Architecture Capability for Enterprise Architecture

·      Risk Management

·      Gap Analysis

Unit 9 – Stakeholder Management

·      How to Identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication involved?

·      The Use of Architecture Views

·      Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management

·      Using Trade-off to Support Architecture Development

Unit 10 – 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 11 – 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 12 – 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

·      The 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)

·      The 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 13 – 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 14 – Requirements Management

·      Inputs that Feed the Requirements Management Phase

·      How the Requirements Management steps correspond to ADM Phase Steps?

·      Purpose of the Outputs of Requirements Management