Enterprise Architecture

At the end of the course, you will earn a Certificate of Completion from Spirit in Projects.

Do you have a comprehensive view of the entire organization, a passion for strategies and do you enjoy deriving technical solutions from business requirements? Would you like to confidently present and implement your vision for the company’s IT landscape while aligning all your stakeholders? If you’re eager to learn the fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture and explore methods like TOGAF and the Zachman Framework, this training is perfect for you. Together, we’ll explore the foundation for successful enterprise architecture while keeping strategic business goals in mind.

Objectives

  • Develop a solid understanding of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
  • Explore various approaches to IT EAM
  • Discover how IT architecture integrates with business processes
  • Apply key standards such as TOGAF and the Zachman Framework
  • Explore best practices

Target groups:

Enterprise Architect, System Architect, Software Architect, Demand Manager and for all who are ready to explore the possibilities.

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Syllabus

1. Key concepts

  • Goals, tasks and benefits of enterprise architecture management (EAM)
  • Distinction between EAM und IT EAM
  • IT strategy and its alignment with EAM
  • Application portfolio management
  • As-Is, objective-oriented and to-be IT enterprise architecture
  • Function and delineation of business, application, data and technology architectures
  • Relationship between change management and EAM
  • Process maps in EAM

2. Approaches in IT EAM

  • Architecture vision and planning
  • Analysis of as-is architectures
  • Development of objective-oriented architectures
  • Enterprise architecture and ist alignment with business strategies and principles
  • Governance and evaluation of implementation projects
  • Architectural principles and the TOGAF methodology

3. Repositories and metamodels

  • Types of information in an EAM repository
  • Technical implementation of an EAM repository
  • Function and advantages of metamodels

4. Governance und change management

  • Roles and organizational models of IT governance
  • Function, responsibilities and composition of architecture and governance boards
  • Best Practices, architectural guidelines and principles for architecture evaluation
  • Governance review tasks based on COBIT
  • Models for IT compliance monitoring and assessment using TOGAF
  • Interaction between change management and IT governance
  • The importance of IT governance in risk management

5. Introducing EAM

  • EAM implementation concepts
  • Organizing and optimizing EAM
  • Stakeholder analysis for EAM implementation
  • Migration paths
  • Phases of EAM implementation and iterative approaches

6. Frameworks

  • Types of architecture frameworks
  • TOGAF as an operational framework
  • Zachmann as a conceptual framework
  • Industry-specific frameworks
  • Selection and tailoring of an EAM framework

7. Case studies in EAM

  • Best Practices
  • Differences between different industries
  • Essential commonalities
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