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Introduction

  • Definition of an Agile Enterprise and its Enterprise Architecture
  • Comparison of the enterprise architecture’s purposes across Zachman, US FEAF, and CISR

Elements of the Business Architecture for an Agile Enterprise

  • Business Architecture: the crucial link between business strategy and enterprise architecture
  • Interconnections between Business Architecture, BPM, and SOA
  • Business Motivation Model (BMM) versus Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) and other business models
  • Core structures and relationships within the Business Motivation Model (including SWOT analysis, business vision, goals, objectives, missions, strategies, and tactics) in relation to business processes
  • Guiding the operating enterprise using Balanced Scorecards
  • The OMG’s Business Architecture Views: From the Strategy View to the Organizational View through Business Capabilities and Processes
  • Process Modeling: Essential elements and best practices
  • Process Modeling with BPMN, adapted to the language of business owners and analysts: Basics, Processes, Sub-processes, Activities, Tasks, Pools, Lanes, Detailed Events, Gateway typology, Synchronization, Connectors, Message Flows, Compensations, and Good Practices
  • Overview of Process Modeling, Execution, and Monitoring tools
  • Using BPMN and UML to model Business Processes and Business Objects (Resources)
  • Case Study: Refining Goals from Business Vision to Business Processes and Resources

Gaining Agility with Business Processes using BPMN and UML 2

  • Methods for modeling business processes to make underlying IT systems more responsive to change
  • Using BPMN, UML, and SoaML to support modifications in business process and business object models
  • Updating Target Architecture business models by altering strategies and leveraging Business Capabilities
  • Case Study: Developing an agile process and resource model that is easy to maintain amid changes

Adapting "business models" to changes in business requirements

  • Modeling changes in goals, strategies, tactics, and business rules
  • Approaches to adapt processes and resources in coherence with such evolutions
  • Case Study: Adapting business processes and resources to shifting business requirements and rules

Conclusion

  • Steps for efficient Agile Process and Resource Modeling
  • Frameworks for tracing business requirements from Business Motivation Model elements to IT structures to better govern them amidst change

Note: For "on-site" delivery of this workshop, we can also tailor its content and case studies to your specific needs and business context to provide a strong starting point and roadmap. Following the workshop, we can further support you through review sessions to validate your architecture solutions for alignment with your business needs.

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