Course Code: uafnafv4
Duration: 21 hours
Course Outline:

Background / PCQ

Model Based System Engineering Initiatives and Panoplies

UAF and NAF goals

Framework Documentation Structure

What is inside the UAF and NAF?

How UAF and NAF work?

What is an Enterprise Architecture?

How to Describe the Architecture?

Why Architecture Matters?

How Enterprise Architectures enable the Decision Making?

UAF and NAF Architecture Views

  • The UAF Strategic View and the NAF Concepts View
  • The UAF Operational View and the NAF Logical Specification View
  • The UAF Services View and the NAF Service-Specification View
  • The UAF Personnel, Resources and Security View and the NAF Physical Resource Specification View
  • The UAF Meta-Data View and the NAF Meta-Data View
  • Other UAF views : Projects, Standards, Actual Resources, Dictionary, Requirements, Summary and Overview, Information and Parameters
  • Correspondences between NAF viewpoints and the ArchiMate metamodel layers / elements
  • How the UAF / NAF fit with the System and Software Engineering Life Cycle?
  • Foundation for Architecting : Architecting Principles (Foundation for Best Practices)
  • Main Architecture Processes, Architecture Governance and Styles
  • Architecture Enablers and Architecture Life Cycle
  • UAF Domain Meta-Models (DMM) : Needs for a Methodology to describe and develop them
  • How does the NAF Methodology help to describe UAF Domains and Model Kinds (Subjects of Concern and Aspects of Concerns in NATO NAF v4 Grid)?
  • Managing the Architecture Motivation Data and Architecture Policy
  • Architecting Stages, Architecting dynamics, Multi-tier architecting 
  • UAF v1.1 and future development plans for the standard

METHODOLOGY for using Architecture Views of UAF in the Context of NAF

  • Overview of the Enterprise Architecting Activities, Domain Meta-Model (DMM), Stakeholder Concerns and Viewpoints
  • How to ensure traceability links between domains (subjects) and model kinds (aspects)?
  • Meta-Data Viewpoints: How to correctly initiate description of the system of interest? Where do we need to define the Enterprise Vision and Operational Missions?
  • UAF Strategic Viewpoints / NAF Concepts Viewpoints : Alternatives to develop different aspects of concern
  • How to ensure traceability between the Strategic Concepts and the UAF / NAF Service-Specification Views?
  • Description of UAF Operational / NAF Logical Specification Views and Traceability from Service Views using NAF v4 Perspective
  • Traceability between UAF Operational and NAF Physical Resources
  • The above aspects of the framework will be presented step by step first based on their Objectives then through their supporting Meta-Models and finally by focusing on their implementations.

Note: In the case of this 3 days training, the presentation of the above views will also be supported using Cameo based screenshots (but without an online practice of the tool).