This workshop offers topics related to enterprise-wide analysis while drilling down into the business architecture. There are many key benefits for focusing on the business architecture, including that it:
- Decreases costs of business analysis activities for projects
- Decreases scope gaps and portfolio management conflicts
- Improves business decision making and the visibility of business process opportunities
- Assures alignment of technology to business valued processes
- Improves communications
- Shortens time for business transformations
- Reduces technology investment risks
- Assists in requirements tracking
- Increases reusability of assets
What You'll Learn
- Strategically advise both business and technology organizations
- Leverage architectural models to bridge business units and technology organizations
- Work with product owners to identify gaps between business capabilities and product roadmaps
- Build a business architecture that meets the needs of your enterprise
- Use techniques and tools to build business architecture components and artifacts
- Define scope of initiatives through the reuse of architectural components
- Identify problems and opportunities using the business architecture
- Justify opportunities and assess feasibility of proposed solutions
- Apply architectural principles to business opportunities
- Capture stakeholder views and business requirements
- Assess solution alternatives
- Assess and present alternative solutions for decision making, buy-in, and approval
- Assist in portfolio management prioritization
- Assure alignment by tracking the opportunity's business value and vision from strategy to implementation
- Communicate the business architecture and present solutions to management
Who Needs to Attend
- Business analyst
- Business or functional managers
- Product and process owners
- Program managers or project managers
- Solution architects
- Technical architects (application, infrastructure, or information)
Course Outline
1. Architecture Key Concepts
- Workshop Glossary
- Why Business Architecture
- Value of Key Components
- Business Need for Subsets and Stakeholder Views
- Business Architecture in Context with other Enterprise Architectures
- Industry Best Practice Frameworks and Methodologies
- Reusing Organizational Assets
2. Prepare to Build a Business Architecture
- Business Architecture Maturity Model and Governance Processes
- Needed Individual and Organizational Competencies
- Review or Assist in Creation of Inputs
- Business and Operating Models, Balanced Score Card, and Strategies
- Identify Artifacts (Static or Dynamic and Granularity Level)
- Identify Applicable Techniques, Tools, and Notations
- Architecture Development and Transition Roadmap (High-Level Plan with Iterations to Future State)
3. Build a Business Architecture-Models and Maps
- Capability and Services Map
- Business Process Models
- Organizational Model
- Value Streams
- Alignment Maps (i.e., alignment to information or technology architectural components)
- Ownership Matrices
4. Build a Business Architecture-Techniques, Tools, and Methods
- Document Analysis
- Benchmarks and Surveys
- SWOT Analysis and Other Business Decision Making Tools
- Business Event Analysis
- Business Policy Identification
- Measures and Metrics
- Review and Obtain Approvals
5. Analyze at the Enterprise Level
- Applying Root Cause Analysis and Questioning Techniques
- Identify Problems and Clarify Vision Statements
- Uncover Business Requirements
- Defining Scope and Applying Stakeholder Views for Analysis
- Generate and Assess Solution Alternatives
- Estimate and Document Assumptions (Delphi Technique)
6. Justify and Communicate
- Moving from Strategy to Tactical
- Creating a Business Case and Feasibility Study
- Tracking Business Value
- Assisting in Prioritization Efforts
- Hints and Tips for Presenting Solutions to Management Teams
- Keeping the Business Architecture Dynamic
- Other Industry "Hot Topics" and Their Influence on the Business Architecture
Hands-On Exercises:
- Present a solution to an executive committee
- Identify impacts to the business architecture based on a scenario
- Optional depending on available time: Identify any technique or tool for more practice
- Terminology and asset gap assessment
- Which components would you use and why
- Which framework would you use and why
- Current state competency assessment
- Facilitate creation of a business model based on scenario
- Build a current state model
- Build a business capability map
- Identify the domain under discussion
- Build a future state model
- Create a problem or vision statement
- Identify the domain under discussion and generate solution ideas
- Estimate and document assumptions for a solution alternative
