Overview
Videos of Webcast Courses
The following video course segments are presented via online
webcast courses throughout the world. They are based on live
inhouse seminars or skills-transfer workshops that use
real-life case study problems. Click on the links below to
view a free, overview video of these webcast courses. Review
each Section table further below to see the course segments
for each section topic.
Overview
Videos
Course
Handouts
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Each online
course includes all handouts (two visuals per page) of
the visuals that are presented in the relevant course.
Each section of the course includes free White Papers
that can be downloaded for later reference.
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Download the
handouts and print them for reference and to take notes
while doing the relevant online course. Download the
White Papers as well and print them for later reference
after doing the relevant course segments in each
section.
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VIEW BRIEF OVERVIEW OF
WEBCAST COURSES
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RAPID DELIVERY OF
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
Section 1: Introductory Online Video Subscription
Course on "Enterprise Architecture for Managers and IT"
This section covers
what is commonly referred to as Business Architecture.
The segments in this section are introductory videos for
Managers and IT staff on the principles of Enterprise
Architecture.
One of the biggest
problems in achieving success in Enterprise Architecture
is in getting active participation from business
managers and business experts. The segments in
this section show how business knowledge is vital for
success with EA. This knowledge is not an IT
responsibility, but is the responsibility of business
managers and their expert staff. IT staff also need to
take a different approach in systems development, to
build support systems that can be easily changed to
support rapid business change.
This course section
shows how business managers and their staff become
actively involved, to drive the EA activity to success.
Two White Papers can be
downloaded for detailed reference after viewing the
course segments in this section. The video segments in
this Section 1 are described as follows:
Section 1 Video Segments Overview
Segment 1-01
establishes - for business managers and IT staff - the
need for rapid business transformation by enterprises so
they can survive in the rapid change environment of
today, with even greater change coming tomorrow.
Segment 1-02 shows
IT staff why system should be built to respond to
business changes in the future: but not from existing
business processes as have traditionally been used.
These processes typically define the needs of the past.
Instead, Strategic Business Plans determine the
business needs for the future. These should be used as a
catalyst for systems development instead of the
traditional systems development approach of using
business processes.
Segment 1-03
introduces the concepts of Balanced Scorecards and
Strategy Maps as used by senior business managers today,
so IT staff can understand the needs of senior managers.
Segment 1-04
introduces business managers, business staff and IT
staff to the concepts of Enterprise Architecture and to
Version 1 of the Zachman Framework graphic. EA is used
by many organizations today to build data bases and
systems that can be delivered rapidly into production in
3-month increments, yet can easily be changed rapidly in
weeks or days to accommodate business changes, rather
than the months or years traditionally needed for system
maintenance.
Segment 1-05 shows
how EA can be used to develop a Governance Analysis
Framework for Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance, for
delivery typically in 25 days.
Segment 1-06 shows
how the Zachman Framework graphic has changed from
Version 1, as introduced in Segment 1-04, now to Version
2 - which is more business-terminology-consistent.
All segments above are of interest
to both business managers, business staff and IT staff.
The Video column in the following
table provides the duration of each video segment, with
the total duration of all segments for this section also
listed. The PDF column refers to the Handouts (as Two
per Page visuals in PDF) that can be downloaded to refer
to, while you are doing each video segment.
|
Seg |
Segment Title |
Video |
PDF |
|
1-01 |
The Need for Business Transformation |
22min
|
156K
|
|
1-02 |
Systems Support for Rapid Business Change |
10min
|
59K
|
|
1-03 |
Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Maps |
24min
|
67K
|
|
1-04 |
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture |
30min
|
310K
|
|
1-05 |
Governance
Analysis using
Enterprise Architecture |
12min
|
277K
|
|
1-06 |
Zachman
Framework 2.0 and Enterprise
Architecture Maturity |
12min |
320K |
| |
Total
Duration of above Segments in Section 1 |
1h 50m |
-- |
|
Papers |
White
Papers on "Enterprise
Architecture for Managers and IT" and on
"Governance
Analysis using
Enterprise
Architecture" |
-- |
990K |
The white papers provided
above for download with this course have been
extracted (in PDF) from the Preface, Chapter 1 and
Chapter 4 of the book: "Enterprise Architecture for
Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and
Technologies" by Clive Finkelstein, Artech House,
Norwood, MA (March 2006).
Registration for Section 1
The following link will take
you to our Online Store, in the Category "Online
Courses" with this Section 1 course displayed as a
product item. Select the Subscription Option (3
months, 6 months or 12 months) that you want. This
will enable many people in your organization to view
the videos.
You can pay by credit card as
detailed on the Home page of the Store. Provide your
email address with your payment and you will then
receive an email 1- 2 days later with the details of
the link for downloading the Section 1 courses.
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Section 2:
Strategic Planning
Online Video Subscription Course on "Using
Strategy Analysis to Define Business Plans"
We discussed in
Section 1 above that a key
requirement for success with Business Architecture
is a focus on the future based on Strategic Business
Plans. Strategy Analysis is a rapid delivery method
for Strategic Business Planning.
The course
segments in this section show how to use Strategy
Analysis to develop business plans from scratch if
they do not yet exist, or how to refine existing
business plans. Strategy Analysis can also be used
by IT staff to gain a detailed understanding of the
future business needs for inclusion in Project
Requirements Specifications. A Business Planning
Questionnaire is provided as a catalyst to develop
new Business Plans from scratch or to refine
existing plans.
This course section shows how
business managers and their staff can become
actively involved in identifying future business
needs, to drive Enterprise Architecture to success.
A White Paper and a Business Planning Questionnaire
can be downloaded for detailed reference after
viewing the course segments in this section. The
video segments in this Section 2 are described as
follows:
Section 2 Video Segments Overview
Segment 2-01
discusses the structure and purpose of the Mission
statement of the enterprise to set the direction for
the future.
Segment 2-02
shows how Policy statements, Goals, Objectives, Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Strategies and
Tactics are all defined.
Segment 2-03
shows how the Business Plan is further defined and
implemented using Personal scorecards.
Segment 2-04
describes the structure of the Business Planning
Questionnaire. It shows how the Business Planning
Questionnaire Template is used to gather input from
business managers and their staff to be used as a
catalyst for an inhouse Business Planning Workshop.
In this workshop, new Strategic Business Plans can
be developed from scratch, or existing
.Strategic Business Plans can be refined.
Finally, Segment 2-05
describes how the Strategy Analysis method (covered
in Segments 2-01 to 2-04 above) is used by IT staff
to gather Project Requirements Specifications based
on the defined Strategic Business Plans.
All segments above are of
interest to both business managers and IT staff.
The Video column in the
following table provides the duration of each video
segment, with the total duration of all segments for
this section also listed. The PDF column refers to
the Handouts (as Two per Page visuals in PDF) that
can be downloaded to refer to, while you are doing
each video segment.
|
Seg |
Segment Title |
Video |
PDF |
|
2-01 |
Analyzing the Mission Statement |
24min
|
78K |
|
2-02 |
Defining Planning Statements: Policies;
Goals, Objectives and KPIs;
Strategies and Tactics
|
34min
|
83K |
|
2-03 |
Implementing the Business Plan through
Personal Scorecards
|
14min
|
65K |
|
2-04 |
Business Planning Questionnaire |
16min
|
50K |
|
2-05 |
Using Strategy Analysis for IT Project
Requirements Specifications
|
11min
|
40K |
| |
Total
Duration of above Segments in Section 2 |
1h 39m |
-- |
|
Papers |
White
Paper on "Chapter
3: Using Strategy Analysis to Define the
Future" and
"Business Planning Questionnaire" |
-- |
570K
|
The white papers provided
above for download with this course are Chapter
3, extracted (in PDF) from the book:
"Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid
Delivery Methods and Technologies" by Clive
Finkelstein, Artech House, Norwood, MA (March
2006) and the "Business Planning Questionnaire
Template" (in Word) from the CD that is supplied
with the book.
Registration for Section 2
The following link will
take you to our Online Store, in the Category
"Online Courses" with this Section 2 course
displayed as a product item. Select the
Subscription Option (3 months, 6 months or 12
months) that you want. This will enable many
people in your organization to view the videos.
You can pay by credit card
as detailed on the Home page of the Store.
Provide your email address with your payment and
you will then receive an email 1- 2 days later
with the details of the link for downloading the
Section 2 courses.
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Free Online Video
Courses on 'Deriving Project Plans from Data
Models"
Section 3: Strategic Modelling for Rapid
Delivery of EA
One of the biggest
problems in implementing Enterprise Architecture
projects is the amount of detail that is
defined. The course segment videos in this
section are FREE and show how to develop a
high-level Strategic Model - as a conceptual
Enterprise Model - from Business Plans that
focus on the future.
Section 3 then shows how
to identify business activities and business
processes from the data model and how to derive
project plans from the strategic data model for
rapid delivery of priority processes in 3-month
increments. The video segments in this Section 3
are described as follows:
Section 3 FREE Video Segments Overview
Segment 3-01
describes how a Strategic Modeling Questionnaire
Template is first used to gather business plans
as input from business managers and business
experts, if a Business Planning Questionnaire
and inhouse Business Planning Workshop are not
used as described in
Section 2 above. .
Their responses to the
questionnaire are used as catalysts in
Segment 3-02 in a Strategic
Modeling Facilitated session attended by
business managers and business experts who have
NO knowledge of data modeling. With guidance
from the facilitator, this segment shows how
they can develop the Strategic Model of their
enterprise as a business picture, based on the
business plans and their business knowledge. .
Once the Strategic Model
has been developed from Business Plans in
Segment 3-02, Segment 3-03 shows
how business activities and business processes
can be easily identified from data models so
managers can determine the delivery priorities
of data bases and systems for the business.
This approach is not widely appreciated even by
experienced data modeling practitioners.
Following this,
Segment 3-04 next show how to
analyze the Strategic Model, both manually and
also automatically, to derive project
plans from the data model.
This extends the discipline of data modeling
with new methods that have not generally been
seen or understood even by experienced data
modeling practitioners.
These new methods enable
priority business processes to be identified and
extracted from complex data models - along with
the data that they need - as subprojects for
rapid delivery as systems into production in
3-month increments.
The Video column in the following
table provides the duration of each video segment, with
the total duration of all segments for this section also
listed. The PDF column refers to the Handouts (as Two
per Page visuals in PDF) that can be downloaded to refer
to, while you are doing each video segment.
|
Seg |
Segment Title |
Video |
PDF |
|
3-01 |
Strategic Modelling Questionnaire |
18min
|
51K |
|
3-02 |
Developing the Strategic Model - Basic
Concepts |
25min
|
231K |
|
3-03 |
Identifying Business Activities and
Processes from the Strategic
Model |
15min
|
129K |
|
3-04 |
Deriving Project Plans from the Strategic
Model: for rapid delivery of
shared databases and
reusable systems
|
35min
|
204K |
| |
Total
Duration of above Segments in Section 3 |
1h 33m |
-- |
|
Papers |
White Paper
on "Chapter
7: Strategic Modeling for Rapid
Delivery of Enterprise
Architecture" and
"Strategic Modelling
Questionnaire Template" in
Microsoft Word and PDF |
|
|
The white papers provided
above for download with this course are
Chapter 7, extracted (in PDF) from the
book: "Enterprise Architecture for
Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and
Technologies" by Clive Finkelstein, Artech
House, Norwood, MA (March 2006) and the "Strategic
Modelling
Questionnaire Template" (in Word and
PDF) from the
CD that is supplied with the book.
View
Section 3 Videos FREE
NOTE:
Section 3 will be available following your
registration, at no charge. The response to your
registration is the above table with links
activated so you can download the videos and
handouts for FREE as follows:
- First, download Chapter 7 (in
PDF) and the
Strategic Modelling Questionnaire
Template (in Microsoft Word and PDF) can
be downloaded for detailed
reference while viewing Segment 3-01 and
Section 3. After registration, click on
the activated link in the
Strategic Modelling Questionnaire
title for
Word, or click on the links in the PDF
column for PDF.
- Second, the course
handouts (in PDF, printed as two visuals
per page) can next be downloaded after
registration by clicking on the link for
each segment in the PDF column. Print
each PDF file to refer to these handouts
while you view the relevant video for
each segment.
- Third, the videos (as .wmv
files) can then be downloaded and viewed
immediately (using Windows Media Viewer)
after registration - by clicking on the
link showing the duration of each
segment in the video column .
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Section 4:
Real-World Enterprise Architecture Projects
This section describes
two real-world projects that applied the
methods covered in the previous sections of
this webcast course to develop and analyze a
Strategic Model
for a Regional
Bank and also for a Government Agency. These
projects documented this analysis in an
Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Plan
(EAPP) Report for each organization, for
rapid delivery of priority processes into
production as systems in 3-month increments.
A White Paper on each
project can be downloaded for detailed
reference after viewing the course segments
in this section.
NOTE: Section 4 videos will be made
available for download after their
publication to the Online Store by end 2009.
|
Seg |
Segment Title |
Mgt |
IT |
|
4-01 |
Enterprise Architecture in
Banking |
4
|
4
|
|
4-02 |
Enterprise Architecture in Government |
4
|
4
|
|
Papers |
White
Papers on "Enterprise
Architecture in Banking" and on
"Enterprise Architecture in Government" |
4
|
4
|