APPLYING ENTERPRISE BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE

This workshop offers topics related to enterprise-wide analysis while drilling down into the business architecture. There are many key benefits for focusing on the business architecture, including that it:

• Decreases costs of business analysis activities for projects
• Decreases scope gaps and portfolio management conflicts
• Improves business decision making and the visibility of business process opportunities
• Assures alignment of technology to business valued processes
• Improves communications
• Shortens time for business transformations
• Reduces technology investment risks
• Assists in requirements tracking
• Increases reusability of assets

What You’ll Learn

• Strategically advise both business and technology organizations
• Leverage architectural models to bridge business units and technology organizations
• Work with product owners to identify gaps between business capabilities and product roadmaps
• Build a business architecture that meets the needs of your enterprise
• Use techniques and tools to build business architecture components and artifacts
• Define scope of initiatives through the reuse of architectural components
• Identify problems and opportunities using the business architecture
• Justify opportunities and assess feasibility of proposed solutions
• Apply architectural principles to business opportunities
• Capture stakeholder views and business requirements
• Assess solution alternatives
• Assess and present alternative solutions for decision making, buy-in, and approval
• Assist in portfolio management prioritization
• Assure alignment by tracking the opportunity’s business value and vision from strategy to implementation
• Communicate the business architecture and present solutions to management