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Day 1 – Strategy, Innovation and Business Architecture

1. The innovation imperative.
Challenges of business agility.

Agility and innovation – what do they really mean?
- Client and citizen-centric pressures
- Regulatory and compliance requirements
- What is your innovation culture?
- Opportunities for new business models
The role of strategy for Business Architecture (BA)
Enabling services, products and program innovation with BA
BA as catalyst for change: Trailing strategy, values & technology trends
The constraints to agility - Managing accidental and essential complexity

2. The Business Architecture manifesto.
Aligning strategy, design and projects.

Defining Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Business Architecture mission, deliverables, and target groups
The Business Architecture ecosphere:
- Enterprise, information, cloud services, technology, security and policy architectures
BA’s critical contributions to EA
EA and BA: Closing the strategy, design & implementation divide

3. Fundamentals of enterprise models.
Managing change.

Bridging the fuzzy front-end
How architectures, frameworks and models tame complexity
Mapping the future:
- As-is vs. To-be Business Architectures
Overview of BA approaches
The Business Architect as chameleon:
- Representing strategic, organizational and IT perspectives

4. From strategy to Business Architecture.
    Bridging the gap.
    In this interactive workshop, team members use a real world case study to understand the strategy of
    introducing a direct self-service channel.

Understanding strategic direction and stakeholder needs
Value chain and line-of-business analysis
Ensuring executive buy-in and participation
Impact of strategic changes on people, process and technology

5. Managing the transformation portfolio.
The reality of priorities.

Roadmap to BA deliverables
Coverage and granularity factors:
- Business analysis, project and portfolio management
Building the right skill set: From BA to IT to change management
The build-out: From projects to strategic portfolio management

Days 2 & 3 Implementing Business Architecture for the Client-Centric Enterprise

1. Patterns in the business environment.
The power of reference models.

The role of reference models
From abstraction to generalization
Government reference models
Industry sector reference models

2. Identifying strategic drivers.
Analysis of business goals.

Needs, goals, outcomes, outputs, and values
Enterprise-level business architecture analysis: Identifying strategic drivers
Value proposition and value chain analysis
Logic models and strategy maps
Validating business goals

3. Business services design.
Modeling for a client-centric world.

Alignment of strategy and outcomes
Meeting market or constituency needs
Co-designing with clients – why does Microsoft hire anthropologists?
Using product and service patterns
Modeling valued outputs of the enterprise
Aligning the outputs with intended outcomes

4. Understanding the value chain.
Designing target operating models.

The extended enterprise
Modeling value chains and core processes
Assessing & modeling the impact of strategy on the current value chain
Abstracting common/shared services from the current operating models
Organizational implications for realizing target operating models:
- Designing vertical and horizontal accountabilities
- Managing outsourcing
- Building in trust: Security and privacy

5. Getting the semantics right.
Creating a shared understanding.

The conceptual business model and its role
Modeling for the bilingual Business Architect
- Business and technical language competencies
Understanding the structural view
Business components and their relationships
Input to the enterprise information model

6. Lifecycle analysis.
The times they are a changing.

Understanding the behavioral view
The state transition model:
- Modeling behavior over time
Combining semantic and state transition models

7. Modeling business processes.
Living in a world of distributed and virtual services.

The critical role of Business Architecture in distributed services
Understanding the functional view
Businessand distributed use cases
Implications for cloud applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Process and integration standards

8. Capturing policy and business rules.
Gaining enterprise agility.

Environmental implications on strategy
Impact of strategy changes on business & policy
Externalizing policies and business rules
Transparency of business processes
Modeling business rules
Business scenarios

9. From over-the-counter to 24/7.
A world of disintermediation.

The challenge of conducting business anytime, anywhere with anyone
Business network model:
- Implications for the technology architecture
Workflow architecture
- Design/simulation of enterprise-wide workflows and business processes

10. Building the business blueprint.
Achieving the adaptive enterprise.

Business modeling tools: Managing business design knowledge
The reality of strategy dynamics:
- Ongoing adaptation in a client-centric world
- Sensitivity of Business Architecture artifacts and models to change
The portfolio of business and IT investments
Business Architecture governance

“I congratulate you on the high caliber of your speakers — they bring a wealth of knowledge to supplement the course material.”
Carol Lachapelle
Director, Information Management
NB Department of Transportation

“Absolutely excellent, current and immediately applicable.”
James Meck
Chief Architect
BAE Systems

“The pragmatic approach is helpful and appreciated.”
Carol Bingaman
Program Manager
Commonwealth of Pensylvania

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Business architecture & modeling bibliography

Architecture and project management
Brooks, Frederick P., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20^th Anniversary Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Chapter 16, No Silver Bullet, Essence and Accident, discusses essential and accidental complexity.

Business objects
Penker & Erikson, Business Modeling with UML: Business Patterns at Work, Penker and Erikson propose a number of UML extensions to support modeling of business processes in UML. They also provide a number of business modeling patterns based on a case study.

Taylor, David, Object Technology: A Managers Guide, 2^nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1997. The 2^nd edition of David's classic introduction to object technology. In addition to discussing key concepts like objects, classes, and messaging, it covers more recent concepts such as interfaces, components and the applicability of object technology to modeling enterprises as complex adaptive systems.

Taylor, David, Business Engineering with Object Technology, Addison-Wesley, 1995. This book introduces the fundamental concepts of convergent engineering including using objects to model businesses, a business object semantics and responsibility-driven business design.

Fowler, Martin, Analysis Patterns, Reusable Object Models, Addison-Wesley,1997. Fowler extends the pattern approach to the field of business modeling. He has a number of common patterns to model common business problems like representing the structure of a business enterprise, measuring business performance, modeling business agreements, etc. I found it quite helpful when designing the performance and operations management system in its discussion of measurement patterns including unit of measure conversion patterns. He also has an excellent section on architectural layers for multi-tier architectures.

Gale/Eldred, Getting Results with the Object-Oriented Enterprise Model, SIGS Books, 1996. This book relates enterprise modeling to fundamental thinking in general systems theory and current management models like Porter's value chain. It is a pretty thick and earnest book, but I found some quite useful thinking throughout.

Model driven architecture
Frankel, David S, Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to enterprise computing, Wiley, 2003 This book looks at modeling languages as programming languages (rather than simply design tools). It looks pragmatically at what can be accomplished with MDA today towards the promise of generating executable code from platform independent business models.

Hubert, Richard, Convergent Architecture: building model-driven J2EE systems with UML, Wiley, 2001. This book relates business architecture and design to systems architecture and design using the concept of “convergent” business components. This is the first practical how-to-guide to applying the concept of model-driven architecture from OMG, an international standards-setting group that established UML as a modeling standard.

Object methodology & technology
Gamma et al, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison Wesley, 1995. This seminal book in the "pattern language of programming" field is indispensable for designers of object based systems who have to work with object developers in producing executable code. It presents a set of generalized patterns to solve and implement common design problems (eg, how to implement fractal objects using the "Composite" pattern or state dependent behavior, using the "State" pattern. It is pretty technical and has sample code fragments in Smalltalk and C++.

Wirfs-Brock, Rebecca, et al, Designing Object-0riented Software, Prentice Hall PTR, 1990. Wirfs-Brock and her associates introduced the responsibility driven design method in this book which applies the technique to the development of a variety of software systems. This book provided much of the inspiration behind the design methodology used in convergent engineering, a precursor to business architecture.

Jacobsen, Ivar, The Object Advantage, Business Process Reengineering with Object Technology, Addison-Wesley, 1995. Jacobsen is a real pioneer in the application of object technology to the development of business systems. His use case methodology and Objectory process are at the heart of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Rational Unified Process (RUP). I find the "uses" and "extends" relationships between use cases to be an excellent way to decompose business requirements. I also use some of his use case scripting techniques as a way to write scenarios.

Schlaer/Mellor, Object Life Cycles, Modeling the World in States, PTR Prentice Hall, 1992. A follow on book to Modeling the World in Data (which proposed a data driven approach to designing objects). The states book provides a very accessible discussion of modeling object life cycles, including events, state transitions and state dependent behaviour. The Schlaer/Mellor methodology has received greatest acceptance in the design and development of real time systems.

Firesmith/Eykholt, Dictionary of Object Technology, The Definitive Desk Reference [DOT], SIGS Books, 1995. This is an indispensable reference book for anyone involved in trying to understand the many, often conflicting uses of terms in object technology by different methodologists.

Complex adaptive systems
Holland, John H., How Adaptation Builds Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1995. The first two chapters of this book provide an excellent overview of the fundamental elements of complex adaptive systems and the adaptive behaviour of agents. The balance of the book describes attempts to develop computer simulations and a theory of complex adaptive systems.

Enterprise architecture links: links to a wide range of EA websites can be found at http://www.ewita.com/links/links.htm

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Day 1
1. The innovation imperative
2. The Business Architecture manifesto
3. Fundamentals of enterprise models
4. From strategy to Business Architecture
5. Managing the transformation portfolio

Day 2 & 3
1. Patterns in the business environment
2. Analysis of business goals
3. Business services design
4. Understanding the value chain
5. Getting the semantics right
6. Lifecycle analysis
7. Modeling business processes
8. Gaining enterprise agility
9. From over-the-counter to 24/7
10. Building the business blueprint

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BAE Systems

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Sodexo

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NB Department of Transportation

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