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Sunday, 05 February 2012
Z102 MasterClass: Implementation Strategy Examples

 

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY EXAMPLES

A Two-Day Course
by
Stan Locke

 

Purpose

  • To enable the participant to use The Zachman Framework™ as a tool for thinking about business and technology.
  • To consider framework implications for integration when making enterprise design decisions.
  • To understand the underlying framework constructs of fractals and other frameworks.
  • To be able to select appropriate implementation strategies for the delegate’s organization and explain the rationale for them.
  • To understand how implementation composites can be assembled from primitive cell elements.
  • To review framework implementations in business, not for profit and government situations.

Course Objectives

This course explores how to strategically implement Enterprise Architecture. It will look at how to bring together two apparently opposing conditions – the short term need to deliver a solution on time and within budget, and the long term adaptability requirements of the enterprise. The course examines the underlying constructs of The Zachman Framework™ and the implications of "Thinking Zachman™" to give a more balanced view of the entire enterprise.

Given that architecting an Enterprise is fundamental to the ongoing success of an organization, this course has attempted to bring real world examples of what to do and not to do. The blending of consulting situations with the theory of the Zachman™ approach yields a most interesting set of practical guideposts to those working on engineering the enterprise.

 

Course Contents

ZACHMAN™ – Fundamentally Business

  • How the approach is Business Quadrant driven
  • The essential minimal Enterprise Perspectives
  • The fundamental Communication Interrogatives
  • Business Classification and Implementation

BUSINESS – Driving Quality

  • Using the framework for enterprise quality assurance
  • Ensuring business alignment quality
  • The framework set for developing business blueprints

MITIGATION of Business Change

  • Team case studies review how the framework is a tool for strategic analysis
  • Synthesizing the business into high-level abstractions
  • Assembling the components into Integrated Business Change Initiatives
  • Creating Presentation Composites for executive leaders

ENGAGING Executive Management

  • Eliciting Strategic Priorities
  • Creating Business Models
  • Determining the right players
  • Optimizing Enterprise Architecture initiatives for strategic alignment

BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE APPROACHES

  • Determining the Enterprise Architecture maturity level
  • The "shortcut" to effective Enterprise Architecture delivery
  • Top down, Middle In, Bottom Up
  • Project Implications for Enterprise Architecture Delivery

ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE MODELS

  • Business Controlled Domains
  • Systems and Technology Domains
  • Creating Business Governance

BEYOND "SILVER BULLETS" TO BUSINESS IMPERATIVES

  • From Business Architecture to Strategy Formulation
  • From Information Architecture to Enterprise Asset Reuse
  • From Application Architecture to Design Components
  • From Technology Architecture to Integrated Infrastructures
  • From Data Warehousing to Information Assembly
  • From Information Engineering to Enterprise Engineering

DERIVING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES

  • How Business and Governments differ
  • The role of Services, Programs, Enforcements, Advocates and Referrals
  • Peer Model consolidation
  • Role of Architecture Standards

PRAGMATIC ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

  • Business Focussed Initiatives
  • Sliver Implementation Strategy
  • Project Architectures
  • Planning Control via High Level models
  • Integrating the Perspectives
  • Making the Best Practices explicit

 

Intended Audience

This course is directed at those in the management group who need to have a good understanding of The Zachman Framework™ in order to direct an implementation of enterprise architecture. Those with an information resource management and data administration background will find this course essential to fitting their skills into the enterprise jigsaw puzzle. Object-oriented people will find the modeling construct changes refreshing while at the same time be challenged by the binding issues. Project managers on the other hand will find the some unique ideas of architecture and delivery. Business managers will find their role as fundamental to the architecture process. All in all we have attempted to meet the management needs of those serious about the Zachman™ architecture.

Typical delegates include:

  • Chief Information Officers
  • Information Systems Management
  • Data, Applications, Technology Management
  • Enterprise Architects
  • Data, Applications, Technology Architects
  • Business Architects
  • Business, Systems Analysts
  • Consultants
  • Strategic Planners

Delegates should have some knowledge of Enterprise Architecture. For those who do not, attendance of the two day course, Z101 MasterClass: Enterprise Architecture - A Revolution in Concepts, presented by John Zachman, is highly recommended.

 

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