Led by John Zachman and Stan Locke. Qualifies for Enterprise Architecture Zachman Certification.

Day 1 & 2 | Day 3 & 4 | Course Fees |


Days 1 & 2 - Understanding Enterprise Architecture
Framework Fundamentals

1. The innovation imperative.
    Business drivers for Enterprise Architecture.

• The waves of change
• The revolution in concepts

2. From the source.
    The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture.

• Enterprise knowledge artifacts:
  - From data, function and networks
  - From scope to enterprise, systems and technology models
• The extended framework:
  - From people, time and motivation
  - From workflow, process and business rule models
• Rules of the Framework

3. Addressing the paradoxical challenge.
     Rapid delivery & enterprise infrastructure.

• The "model" vs the "results" view of the world
• Process concepts
• What about objects?
• Paradigms for managing change: architecture and assemble-to-order to manage
  rapid delivery

4. Behind the scenes.
    EA implementation essentials.

• Model selection
• Skills, approaches and tools
• Short term demand strategies
• Managing federated architectures

5. For good measure.
    The role of EA standards in successful implementation.

• Framework standards
• Adapting the standards to your organization
• Elaborating the models to your business

6. Planning the work.
    Enterprise Architecture methodologies.

• Classification vs methodologies
• Methodology standards
• Methodology vendors
• Framework implementers
  - Methodologies overview

7. Working the plan.
    Enterprise Architecture practicalities.

• Funding and cost justification
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Repositories and model management
• Organization & culture change
• Towards the new business imperative: Build, Store, Manage and Change the Models

Days 3 & 4 –Real World EA Implementation - Global Practices for Success

1. What Columbus knew.
    Understanding the dimensions of the framework.
     In this interactive workshop, team members will learn how
     abstractions from the Zachman Framework will provide
     participants with key concepts for understanding EA
     implementation.

2. Get down to business.
    Framework thinking for the enterprise.

• How much of the enterprise, how deep
• Integrating the different business viewpoints
• Using the interrogatives to analyze the business
• Relating the questions to the viewpoints

• How architecture ensures better alignment
• Understanding The Zachman Framework set to support consistency
• Using the framework for quality assurance in the enterprise

• Global trends in EA
  
• Evolving implementation from infrastructure to business
  
• EA standards to make it work
• Process maturity
• Growing the knowledge base
  

5. The planner's view.
    Ensuring business integration.

• Reviewing the required business artifacts
• Ensuring scope integration
• Reviewing the transformations to ensure strategic alignment
• Completing the scope gaps
  

6. Making EA a reality.
    Program architecture and service models.

• Peer and reference models
• An example review and approval process
• The role of services, programs, enforcements, advocates and referrals

7. The name of the game.
    Designing for business change.
     Real world case studies allow executives and their team
     members to review how the framework is a tool
     for strategic analysis.

• Analyzing the business model into high-level components
• Reassembling into integrated business change initiatives
• Creating composites for executive management

8. The trade-offs.
    Business implications of EA approaches.

• Determining the EA maturity level
• The 'shortcut' to effective EA delivery
  
• What is the right implementation sequence for your organization?
• Project implications for EA delivery
  

9. The EA process.
    Beyond current methodologies to business imperatives.

• Business strategy alignment
• Enterprise asset reuse
• Design components
• Exploiting the data warehouse
• Optimizing infrastructures

10. In the hot seat.
      Strategic Enterprise Architecture.

• Engaging executive management
• Sliver implementation strategy
• EA project and portfolio architectures
• Making the best practices explicit

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Toronto, ON - August 16-19, 2010

To bring this course to your organization call Intervista at 1-800-397-9744.
For outside North America, call
(514)937-7130.

Day 1 & 2
1. Business drivers for EA
2. Zachman Framework for EA
3. Rapid delivery & enterprise infrastructure
4. EA implementation essentials
5. The role of EA standards
6. Enterprise Architecture methodologies
7. Enterprise Architecture practicalities

Day 3 & 4
1. The dimensions of the framework
2. Framework thinking for the enterprise
3. Business alignment
4. The EA profession framework
5. Ensuring business integration
6. Architecture and service models
7. Designing for business change
8. Business implications of EA approaches
9. Beyond current methodologies
10. Strategic Enterprise Architecture



John Zachman is a recognized thought leader in Enterprise Architecture strategies for managing change.
Learn more about our faculty.

Stan Locke is research and development lead for the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Learn more about our faculty.



"Hour-for-hour, this is the best seminar I have attended. The instructors thoroughly covered concepts, demonstrated their application effectively and convincingly explained the consequences of poor architectural practice."
Daniel A. Joseph, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, MIS
Rochester Institute of Technology

" I feel energized and much better equipped to think things through and start engineering the enterprise. Thanks!"
Kelvin White
Corporate Technical Architect
Talisman Energy

"… Stan is definitely one of the best teachers I have ever encountered: articulate, entertaining, engaging, considerate and knowledgeable."
Alice Sturgeon
Senior Director
Treasury Board Secretariat, CIO Branch

"This has been an eye opening experience. Receiving this training from the masters will most certainly keep measurable benefits going forward. Stan provided additional concepts and practices around implementation strategies, a critical next step in exploiting the framework ontology – this was great!!! ."
Dennis Johnson
System Architect
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield