Applying Enterprise Business Architecture

Why should my company or those companies I support apply an enterprise business architecture?

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

How might this workshop help me if I don't have a company that is implementing an enterprise business architecture?

The business architecture has many components and artifacts. They might not all be applicable to every enterprise. The techniques and tools that you will apply in the workshop can be tailored to your specific company's environment. The key is to gain a "good enough" understanding so that you can communicate the benefits of relevant business architecture components and artifacts and know which will provide the biggest business value.

Many of these initiatives will take years to implement while changing the enterprise paradigm to effectively utilize the result. Managers tend to be assigned to these initiatives without the knowledge or skills to make them successful. Be ready for these enterprise initiatives! Assure business value when transitioning from strategy to tactical. Participants will learn to identify the best approach to use based on initiative characteristics and business strategies.

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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

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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

Business analyst
Business or functional managers
Product and process owners
Program managers or project managers
Solution architects
Technical architects (application, infrastructure, or information)

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Applying Enterprise Business Architecture

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