Course Outline
Business and IT System Agility in the Digital Age (1-day course)
Introduction
- Digital disruption, digital value creation, and value delivery,
- Digital business models within a competitive digital landscape,
- Transforming into a digital data-ready enterprise,
- The 'Goal and Data Driven' structures of the Business Motivation Model,
- System engineering and enterprise architecture frameworks,
- IT reference architectures,
- Ensuring convergence and alignment between these frameworks and architectures,
- Strengthening decision-making processes based on 'Data',
- Refining the path from enterprise vision to business processes,
- Steps to align IT with the evolving needs of the business.
Gaining Agility: From Business to IT System, Leveraging Capabilities
- Preparing enterprise and IT system architectures to support change: the goal and data-driven structures from business to IT systems,
- The backbone of business architecture structured by capabilities and value delivery functions,
- Structuring evolutions of capabilities based on shifting strategies,
- Propagating changes from business requirements to IT components (examples provided in the presentation case study).
Impact of Changes on Business Objects (Assets)
- Aligning business processes, participant responsibilities, and business objects with strategic changes,
- Integrating these modifications into components of the business process map.
Impacts on IT System Components
- The goal and data-driven structures of the system backbone to support changes,
- Identifying services and underlying system functions that require adaptation due to changes,
- Integrating evolutions into the service backbone (examples provided in the same case study).
Conclusion
- Steps of the effective agile business and system architecture development methodology,
- Traceability from business strategies to IT system structures to better govern them amidst change.
Note: The above training and mentoring sessions are conducted interactively using a case study to illustrate how to ensure a high level of traceability between business and IT system architectures.
Concepts are first explained using case study examples, and in the case of on-site sessions, may be followed by solution drafts for your own business case during these sessions.
Minor changes may be made to the content depending on the evolution of these standards and commercial strategies.
The Open Business Architecture, TOGAF, and Zachman are respectively trademarks of the Open Group and Zachman International.
DODAF, MODAF, and NAF are respectively architecture frameworks of the US Department of Defense, UK Ministry of Defence, and NATO.
IT4IT is a trademark for IT reference architectures from the Open Group.
The Business and Value Model Canvases are trademarks by Osterwalder and Pigneur.
BMM, BPMN, UML, SysML referenced on this website are trademarks of the Object Management Group (OMG).
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Agnieszka Dubanska - Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia
Course - Modelowanie procesów biznesowych z wykorzystaniem UML i BPMN
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