Overview

This interactive full-day workshop is ideal for those considering a career in EA or anyone new to the profession. The course is also well suited to business change professionals who work with Architects and need to better understand the role and value of Architecture.

We’ll cover the basics of EA, providing foundational knowledge to take forward in your career. Delegates will explore the purpose of Architecture, the range of different Architecture roles, and the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and experience that are required to be get started in EA.

We will provide an overview of the important Architecture Frameworks, as well as looking at key stakeholders and the different ‘customers’ of Architecture.

Together we’ll explore EA models and views, providing a simple framework for understanding a range of Architecture models. We’ll take a detailed look at some ‘killer artefacts’ (such as Business Capability Models) that are valuable to both a technical and non-technical stakeholder community, and at how to create business-relevant EA outputs. In short, understanding architecture deliverables that will help you to communicate well and have productive working relationships with your stakeholders.

We will examine the qualities that make a ‘good’ Architect and the range of capabilities needed to make an Architecture team truly effective. The course will also look at the different mandates that can determine the scope of the Architecture practice in a business, as well as some of the typical pitfalls encountered.

Lastly, we will explore how to get started in establishing an EA practice that fits your organisation, as well as providing guidance for continuous improvement.

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

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course attendees will have the foundational knowledge and confidence they need to get started in enterprise architecture and to ensure their organisations get more value from architecture teams.

  • What you need to know… what is enterprise architecture?
  • Demystify Enterprise Architecture / what does an architect do?
  • Understand the drivers for EA / why does an organisation need Architecture?
  • Understand what makes an Architect successful
  • Understand the different types of EA role / what makes a good architect
  • Understand where EA adds value… and its true potential
  • Recognize the main EA Frameworks and their role in pragmatic organisations
  • Useful models, visualisations, and ‘killer artefacts’
  • Understand the different stakeholders and how EA can help to address business concerns
  • Provide advice and guidance on how best to introduce EA into an organization
  • Critical success factors for generating business value through architecture

Course Outline

The Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals course is structured around a framework that we have used to drive and guide adoption of architecture in medium and large organisations. Content is supported by exercises and discussions throughout the day, with additional material supplied for independent review and ongoing reference.

What is Enterprise Architecture

  • Where did it come from? How did we get here?
  • What’s a good metaphor for enterprise architecture?
  • Complexity and Drivers for EA / creating coherence
  • What’s the essence of EA?

Positioning Enterprise Architecture

  • What do you have to do to get started?
  • What is the primary purpose of EA?
  • What is EA’s strategic role?
  • What are the elements of a successful EA effort?
  • How does EA fit into our ‘business-IT’ landscape?
  • Creating tomorrow’s enterprise vs running today’s enterprise
  • Bridging the gap between strategy and execution
  • Where can an EA practice be most valuable?

Effects of Enterprise Architecture

  • What tangible effects do we expect EA to have?
  • How will we demonstrate and communicate achievement?
  • Ways of delivering EA Value
  • Indirect Business Value

People (part 1)

  • What architect roles are required? Types of architects
  • Who are the key stakeholders? Clients and consumers of architecture
  • Networks of architecture teams
  • The role of a Head of EA

Engagement

  • What activities must architects get involved in?
  • How do we contribute and how are activities initiated?
  • Which are the current issues and hotspots to address?
  • Developing your engagement model

Products

  • What kinds of output do we need to produce?
  • How will they be used? How to increase credibility?
  • EA Frameworks and types of architecture content
  • Models as a contextual lens; physical, logical, and conceptual models
  • The role of architecture tools

Practice

  • Choosing frameworks and methods
  • Who needs to contribute to architecture production and application?
  • How do we learn and improve?
  • Other relevant business practices
  • Factors affecting the success and failure of EA

Product – Examples

  • Killer Artefacts
  • Architecture Principles
  • Wardley Maps
  • Business Capability Models
  • Data, Applications and Technology Reference Models
  • Architecture Roadmaps
  • and many more!

People (part 2)

  • Where to find architects?
  • What knowledge, skills, behaviours, and experience are required?
  • Developing competence / architecture as a craft skill
  • How do we get people to work together effectively?

Plans

  • Where to start doing EA? (and where not to start)
  • What are the major steps and milestones?
  • Understanding your Architecture Mandate
  • Continual Improvement of your EA practice

Who It's For

This is a introductory course that assumes no prior knowledge of Enterprise Architecture. It is suitable for a wide audience, including newly-appointed EAs and other architects looking to understand EA, as well as for managers and change professionals looking to work effectively with architects.

Typical Delegates include:

  • Business Analysts or Technical Analysts looking to move into an Architecture role
  • Enterprise architects new to the profession or wanting to reconnect with the fundamentals
  • Solutions or Technical Architects looking to expand their mandate across the enterprise
  • Senior managers who are responsible for architecture or for bridging the strategy-to-execution gap
  • Strategy and business change professionals who work with architects or want to better incorporate architecture into their organisations

Speakers

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Philip Hellyer

Enterprise Business Architect

Hedwyn
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David O’Hara

Enterprise Business Architect

Hedwyn

Fees

  • 1 day
  • £695
  • LIVE STREAMING - £695 + VAT (£139) = £834
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. It may be necessary, for reasons beyond the control of IRM UK, to change the content, timings, speakers and date of the seminar.

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