RAPID DELIVERY WORKSHOP FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

5-Day Public or In-house Workshop with Interactive Team Sessions to Fast Track your Enterprise Architecture Implementation, for Rapid Delivery in 3-month Increments

Presented by Clive Finkelstein

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Contents

• Introduction

• Objectives

• Audience

• Day 1 Outline

• Days 2-3 Outline

• Days 4-5 Outline

• Instructor

Introduction

An effective Enterprise Architecture is essential to achieve business integration and technology integration in today's complex business environment. This is recognized by organizations and governments world-wide. For example, the development of an Enterprise Architecture is mandated for USA Federal Government and Defense Departments today, through the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. This is reflected in the US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) and similar DoD Architecture Frameworks, such the earlier C4ISR and the current DoDAF.

Unfortunately most Enterprise Architecture projects to-date have been multi-year, high-cost projects before any value is delivered. This 5-day course addresses that problem with rapid-delivery methods and technologies that enable priority business activities and processes, identified by management, to be delivered into production in 3-month increments. These methods identify common shared data, enterprise-wide. They identify reusable business processes that can be implemented once, yet shared throughout the enterprise. This saves not only on development time and cost, but also on day-to-day operational costs of resulting shared, common processes.  These methods can be used in your existing Enterprise Architecture projects, whether based on FEAF, C4ISR or DoDAF, or other approaches.

With the rapid pace of change today, the need for transformation through Enterprise Architecture to an agile enterprise that can change direction rapidly has never been greater. Yet the structures, processes and systems that we have today are inflexible: they are incapable of rapid change. This is both a business problem and a computer problem. It needs strategic direction from senior management and strategic planners, using management methods covered in Day 1 - Enterprise Architecture for Managers. These management directions are translated in Days 2 - 5 into rapid action by your business experts working with your IT experts.

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Day One

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGERS

Essential for Executives, Business Managers, Program Office Managers and IT involved in Planning and Implementing Enterprise Architecture

Days Two and Three

RAPID DELIVERY PORTFOLIO METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Business and IT Methods for Transforming the Planning Deliverables from Day One, for Rapid Delivery of Priority Areas in 3-month Increments

1. ESTABLISHING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE DIRECTIONS - CASE STUDY

• Strategic business transformation directions

• Management priorities, Balanced Scorecard, Governance and Security issues

• Zachman Framework concepts and rules

• Methodologies for FEAF Reference Models (plus C4ISR and DoDAF, if required)

2. ASSURING INTEGRATION: BUSINESS-DRIVEN DATA MODELING

• Strategy-driven methods to transform business models into implementation

• Applying Enterprise Engineering disciplines and proven methodologies

• Resolution of semantic issues

3. STRATEGIC MODELING - CASE STUDY

• In this facilitated strategic modeling session, team members will learn how to transform business plans and Balanced Scorecard measures to integrated databases and reusable processes for rapid delivery

• Identifying priority activities for rapid delivery

4. VALIDATING ALIGNMENT GOALS AND PLANS - CASE STUDY

• Through an Interactive Workshop, team members will learn how to identify business transformation opportunities and Governance Analysis through Strategic Alignment

• Engaging Executive Management

• Aligning Models across rows and columns

5. BUSINESS NORMALIZATION TO IDENTIFY FUTURE BUSINESS NEEDS

• Business Normalization methods applied by business experts and IT

• Methods and rules for business to systems model transformations

• Identifying further business data needs and activities that also indicate governance or business transformation opportunities

6. DERIVING PORTFOLIO PLANS FOR RAPID EA DELIVERY - CASE STUDY

• In this Interactive Workshop, team members will learn important steps for deriving project plans and prioritizing implementation efforts based on data models, business plans and business rules

• Refining project scope and deliverables for rapid sub-project deliveries in 3-month increments

• Balancing mandates, business plans and resource demands

• Demonstrating alignment and integration for rapid Balanced Scorecard and Governance Analysis implementation

7. REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE OF STRATEGIC MODEL ANALYSIS - CASE STUDY

• Derivation of Project Plans from real-life Corporate Data Model for large organization

• Methods used, Lessons learned and potential Failure Traps to avoid

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Days Four and Five

RAPID DELIVERY DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Methods and Technologies for Rapid Design and Delivery of Priority Systems, with Integrated Enterprise Architecture Implementation

1. ACTIVITY MODELING FOR COST, OPPORTUNITY AND ROI ANALYSIS

• Activity Based Modeling and Costing methods to analyze Business Transformation opportunities for cost effectiveness

• Evaluating implementation alternatives

2. DEVELOPING PROCESSES, WORKFLOWS AND INTERFACE DESIGN

• Methods to implement reusable activities as reusable business processes

• Deriving Workflow Models for rapid delivery using latest technologies

• Use of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPM) for Business Process Diagrams (BPDs)

•  Methods for Menu and Screen Design and Transaction performance optimization

3. TRANSFORMATION TO DESIGN PERSPECTIVE - CASE STUDY

• Interactive Case Study session using learned methods to transform priority areas into Design and Delivery perspectives

4. BRIDGING GAP: PORTFOLIO ALIGNMENT - CASE STUDY

• Case Study session refines strategic alignment for Governance Analysis

• Session further aligns transformed Business Models to Design Architecture across all columns of the Zachman Framework

5. VALIDATING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE DELIVERABLES - CASE STUDY

• Case Study session to test all business transformation deliverables developed in earlier workshops for completeness

• Determining Enterprise Architecture deliverables for governance alignment with business priorities

6. ENTERPRISE METADATA AND THE ROLE OF MODELING TOOLS

• Review of Modeling Tools for Enterprise Architecture

• Code Generation concepts used by Modeling Tools

• Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for Process Modeling

• Support by Modeling Tools for Code Generation and BPMN

7. TOOLS AND e-TECHNOLOGIES FOR RAPID IMPLEMENTATION

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) concepts

• Enterprise and e-Government Portal concepts

• Web Services concepts

8. WEB SERVICE PRODUCT STRATEGIES AND EVOLUTION

• Web Services Evolution and Directions

• Web Services  Products and Vendor Strategies

9. SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE FOR WEB SERVICES

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts

• Business Process Management (BPM) XML-based directly-executable languages: BPEL; WSCI, BPML, BPSS

• Products and Vendor Strategies  for generation of BPM executable code

• The Role of BPMN and Directions for the Future

10. SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

• Need for both Rapid Delivery Methods and also Rapid Delivery Technologies

• Sustaining executive involvement in Enterprise Architecture for Balanced Scorecard, Governance Analysis and Business Transformation opportunities