Overview

Please note this course was originally scheduled for March but it has now been rescheduled to June.

Is your organization planning to, or already underway with Agile development and / or DevOps? Does it seem like an excuse not to do architecture, analysis or design, because it shouldn’t be. At a project level, you’re building things faster, but at an enterprise level, you don’t know if you’re building the right things, or instead, just creating redundancy and inconsistency faster. While speed is important, it is the right things at the right speed — the “speed of business change” — that is critical to success in the new digital economy. And, while DevOps is a critical component of any business or digital transformation initiative it is not incompatible with, in fact it is better with, architecture and design. Moreover, the enterprise benefits don’t end there.

BizOps extends the continuous feedback, faster cycle time, and tighter integration atmosphere, mindset, and process of Lean, Agile, and DevOps, “development-to-operations” upstream to include “business-to-development-to-operations” creating alignment with strategy while ensuring flexibility and agility. This includes a business driven “intentional architecture” and common vision that enable innovation, rapid change and emergent business design.

This interactive seminar will mix presentations and simulation planning exercises to answer three key questions:

  1. How does BizOps improve delivery and speed of business change?
  2. How can you successfully integrate business and enterprise architecture into your DevOps and Agile environments?
  3. How do architecture, analysis, design, and development activities change to take advantage of the best of both worlds?

All public courses are available as in-house training. Contact us for more information.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will learn:

  • What is BizOps
  • How to scale DevOps
  • What are the core principles of Agile and Lean that must be scaled
  • How architecture and Agile practices complement each other
  • How to create an “intentional architecture” using DevOps
  • How to extend DevOps to BizOps using business architecture and analysis
  • How to fit architecture and analysis into a CD/CI and test-driven environment
  • The new role of architects and business analysts

Course Outline

What are BizOps and DevOps?

Agile and Lean Principles

  • Shorter cycles, continuous feedback, smaller batches, lower transaction cost, faster cycle time, test driven, tighter integration…

Scaled Agile Approaches

  • SAFe
  • Scaled Agile

Architecture, Analysis and Design in the world of DevOps

  • Opportunities
  • Benefits
  • Challenges

Fitting Architecture into Scrum

  • Creating ‘enabling’ stories
  • Managing the backlog
  • Defining ‘done’
  • Daily standup

Workshop Part I: Architecture and Analysis at the Team Level

Creating an ‘Intentional Architecture’

  • Architectural enablers
  • Shared vision
  • Individual responsibility
  • Clarity and competence

Workshop Part II: Architecture and Analysis at the Program Level

Business Architect and Analysis helps Agile Scale

  • Extending SAFe roles
  • Defining Release Trains
  • Business Capabilities influence Features
  • Value Streams influence backlogs and priorities
  • Portfolio concerns

Workshop Part III: Architecture and Analysis at the Portfolio Level

Architecture and Testing

  • Test-driven development
  • Automated testing
  • Continuous Integration

Getting Architects and Analysts to “Think Agile”

New Roles and Responsibilities

  • Architects
  • Analysts
  • Agile / DevOps leaders
  • Developers

Conclusion

Who It's For

Target Audience:

  • Enterprise Architects
  • Business Architects
  • IT Architects
  • Application Architects
  • IT managers
  • Agile leaders and developers
  • Business Analysts
  • participants in DevOps

Audience Skill Addressed:  All levels. Attendees will gain an understanding of how all the different techniques fit together. Attendees with exposure to Agile and DevOps will be able to quickly apply the learnings to their organizations.

Speaker

Michael Rosen

Chief Scientist

Wilton Consulting Group

Mike Rosen is Chief Scientist at Wilton Consulting Group, providing advice to IT and business leader and architects on using architecture for digital transformation and improved decision making. He is also a Founding Member and VP of the Business Architecture Guild. Mr. Rosen has helped dozens of enterprises create transformation strategies, implement enterprise solutions and create or improve their architecture programs. He has 40 years of technical leadership experience architecting, designing, and developing software applications and products, including roles as CTO, chief architect, product architect, technical leader, and developer for commercial middleware products from IONA, BEA and Digital. Mr. Rosen is a well-known international speaker and author of 3 books and hundreds of articles.

Fees

  • 2 days
  • £1,295
  • £1,295 + VAT (£259) = £1,554
Group Booking Discounts
Delegates
2-3 10% discount
4-5 20% discount
6+ 25% discount

Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations must be received in writing at least two weeks before the commencement of the seminar and will be subject to a 10% administration fee. It is regretted that cancellations received within two weeks of the seminar date will be liable for the full seminar fee. Substitutions can be made at any time.

Cancellation Liability:
In the unlikely event of cancellation of the seminar for any reason, IRM UK’s liability is limited to the return of the registration fee only. IRM UK will not reimburse delegates for any travel or hotel cancellation fees or penalties. It may be necessary, for reasons beyond the control of IRM UK, to change the content, timings, speakers, date and venue of the seminar.

Venue

  • etc.venues Marble Arch Garfield House 86 Edgware Rd London W2 2EA

Accommodation

London Accommodation: IRM UK in association with JP Events Ltd has arranged special discounted rates at all venues and at other hotels nearby the venue. Please visit the JP Events website for further information.

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