Enterprise Architecture Overview

This course is for everyone involved in planning, analysing, implementing, executing, maintaining or improving Enterprise Architectures. It shows comprehensive perspective of tools used to describe and implement the EA.

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture

• What is architecture
• Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• Why do we need EA
• IT Enterprise Architecture
• Business Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture Description vs EA Implementation

Enterprise Architecture Methods, Frameworks, Concepts and Paradigms

EA, Governance and Strategic Planning

• Strategic Management, Strategic Planning
• OMG Business Motivation Model
• Strategy Execution (EFQM)
• Quality Management(Six Sigma, TQM, ISO 9001)
• IT Governance
• IT Service Delivery and Support (ITIL)
• IT Implementation (CMM and CMMI)

Methods and Frameworks

• IEEE Standards
• Zachman Framework
• OMG UAF (Unifed Architecture Framework)
• MDA
• SOA
• Nato Architecture Framework, MoDAF, DoDAF, UPDM

Description Languages

• IDEF
• BPMN
• Testbed
• SoaML
• UML
• Architecture Description Languages
• Suitability for EA

Enterprise Architecture Modelling

• Modelling Process
• Readability and Usability of Models
• Viewpoints and Visualisation

Architecture Analysis

• Analysis Techniques
• Quantitative Analysis
• Functional Analysis

Other

• Architecture Alignment
• Tool Support