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Workshop: Enterprise Architecture introduction
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Here is an outline of the enterprise architecture introduction workshop. Day one provides background information about architectures, while day two provides practical techniques for implementation.

Day one includes: general background, history, architecture principles, architecture factors, the 8 factors, information modelling, knowledge management and the learning organisation, applying the 8 factors.

Day two includes: problems and issues, defining an enterprise architecture framework, establishing ownership, selecting suitable projects, applying the key measurements, developing an action plan, monitoring and measuring progress, the future - summary and anticipations.

Pre-requisites

A basic understanding of information and enterprise management principles.

Day One: Enterprise Architecture

Day one of this workshop provides a background and history of the subject, followed by a detailed discussion of the principles and experience that have emerged from two generations of implementing architectures.

General background

• What do we mean by enterprise architecture?
• What are the benefits and advantages of enterprise architecture?
• What factors are driving the need for enterprise architecture?
• What factors are limiting the effective application of enterprise architecture?
• Analogies and metaphors for enterprise architecture (building architecture, etc.)

History

• Westpac Banking Corporation’s CS90 project
• John Zachman – Information Systems Architecture (also known as the Zachman framework and the Framework for Enterprise Architecture)
• IBM’s Information FrameWork (IFW)
• Learn how leading edge organisations have implemented architecture
• How inadequate architecture can cause business failure
• Current trends

Architecture principles

• Information first, technology second
• Inclusive of precise, attributive data and less precise, fuzzy knowledge/ideas
• Need for a comprehensive, integrated, holistic framework
• Accountability, ownership and stewardship
• Multiple dimensions or factors

Architecture factors

• The limitations of two-dimensional representations
• Multiple frameworks
• A multi-dimensional approach
• Examples of using the 8 factors

The 8 factors

• Categories
• Understanding
• Presentation
• Evolution
• Knowledge
• Responsibility
• Process
• Meta Levels

Information modelling

• Information Engineering
• Object Oriented approaches
• Other influences
• Meta models
• Managing information models

Knowledge management and the learning organisation

• The learning organisation and enterprise architecture
• The KnowledgeScape model
• Activity cycles
• Required business roles in the information-age organisation

Applying the 8 factors

• The Zachman framework
• Information FrameWork
• Other examples

Day Two: Practical Techniques for Implementation

Day two describes best practice from the third generation of enterprise architectures. The focus is on practical guidelines, tips and techniques that can be applied straightaway in your organisation.

Problems and Issues

• How to adapt the 8 factors to suit your specific needs
• Training and skills
• Support tools and resources
• Information sensitivity / security / access
• Quality assurance
• Information retention / archive guidelines

Defining an enterprise architecture framework

• Customising the 8 factors
• Identifying the required tools

Establishing ownership

• Stewardship versus ownership
• Information resource management and the learning organisation
• Benefits of ownership
• Key roles
• Information life cycles and value chains
• Multiple jurisdictions
• The relationship of ownership to information modelling and information systems
• Information ownership and legacy systems / data warehouse systems
• Information policy and information politics

Selecting suitable projects

• Application development and data warehousing
• Business process management
• Corporate information and knowledge management
• Further examples

Applying the key measurements

• Information complexity index
• Corporate IQ
• Return from information (RFI)

Developing an action plan

• How to plan incremental evolution
• How to provide cost and value justification
• Selling the concept internally
• Organisational change and development

Monitoring and measuring progress

• Using a framework for managing change
• Using metrics and measurements
• Feedback and learning

The future – summary and anticipations

• Anticipated developments
• Key points

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