The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, is a proven, sustainable Enterprise Architecture framework that facilitates the delivery of effective business innovation. The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition defines a modular framework ideally suited to the support of strategic planning of an organizations’ assets and other key elements that are essential to enterprise architecture vendors and their tools.
For businesses, the TOGAF® Standard,10th Edition empowers your organization with an adaptable framework that delivers practical, flexible and trusted governance.
For Enterprise Architects, the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition provides an integrated, holistic view of an organizational landscape which enables strategic decision making by providing best practices for new business and technology trend adoption.
For consultants, the TOGAF® Standard,10th Edition provides a modular, scalable framework that enables organizational transformation for different use cases and architecture styles.
This intensive course covers the entire syllabus for TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Foundation and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, thereby preparing candidates for the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Part 1 and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Part 2 examinations. This course will provide students with the knowledge and a basic understanding of Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® approach. This course will also provide students with validation of the knowledge and comprehension, including the ability to analyze and apply the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition to developing, sustaining, and using an Enterprise Architecture. Students will obtain the ability to use, practice, and apply the TOGAF® approach generically.
Course Outline
Introduction and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Learning Path
Module 1: Introduction and Concepts
- Enterprise
- The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- The Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture
- A Framework for Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture Domains
- Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
- The Enterprise Continuum
- The Architecture Repository
- The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
- Architecture Capability
- Risk Management
- Gap Analysis
Module 2: Definitions
TOGAF® Definitions that are examinable are covered throughout the course as part of other modules.
Module 3: Introduction to the ADM Phases
- The TOGAF® ADM and its Phases
- “Draft” and “Approved” Deliverables
- Iteration and the ADM
- Governing the Creation, Development, and Maintenance of Enterprise Architecture
- How to Scope an Architecture
- Architecture Alternatives, Concerns, and Trade-Off
- Purpose: Preliminary Phase
- Objectives: Preliminary Phase
- Purpose: Phase A
- Objectives: Phase A
- Purpose: Phases B, C, and D
- Objectives: Phase B
- Objectives: Phase C: Data Architecture and Application Architecture
- Objectives: Phase D
- Purpose: Phase E
- Objectives: Phase E
- Purpose: Phase F
- Objectives: Phase F
- Purpose: Phase G
- Objectives: Phase G
- Purpose: Phase H
- Objectives: Phase H
- Objectives: Requirements Management
- Purpose: Requirements Management
- Information Flow Between ADM Phases
- How Developing Architecture can be Applied to Support Agile Software Development
Module 4: Introduction to ADM Techniques
- How the ADM and Supporting Guidelines and Techniques Relate to Each Other
- Purpose: Architecture Principles
- Template for Architecture Principles
- What Makes a Good Architecture Principle
- Business Scenarios
- The Purpose of Gap Analysis
- Interoperability
- Business Transformation Readiness Assessment
- Risk Management and the TOGAF® ADM
Module 5: Introduction to Applying the ADM
- How to Apply the TOGAF® Standard
- Iteration and the ADM
- The Three Levels of the Architecture Landscape
- Partitioning to Simplify the Development of an Enterprise Architecture
- Purpose-Based Architecture Projects
- Applying the TOGAF® Standard to Support the Digital Enterprise
Module 6: Introduction to Architecture Governance
- Architecture Governance
- Why Architecture Governance is Beneficial
- The Role of an Architecture Board and its Responsibilities
- Architecture Contracts
- Architecture Compliance
Module 7: Architecture Content
- Key Concepts: Stakeholders, Concerns, Architecture Views, Architecture Viewpoints, and their Relationships
- Building Blocks and the ADM
- The TOGAF® Standard Deliverables Created and Consumed in the TOGAF® ADM Phases
Module 8: The Context for Enterprise Architecture
- Guiding Effective Change: The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- What does an Enterprise Architecture look like?
- Architecture Capability
- Architecture Governance and the role of an Enterprise Architect
- Architecture Compliance, Levels of Conformance, Reviews, and the Role of the Architect
- How an Architecture enables alignment to Organizational Objectives using Agile development as an example
- The need to Manage Multiple Architecture States
- Enterprise Security Architecture
- Security, a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Managing Uncertainty in order to optimize Maximum Business Benefit and Minimum Business Loss
- The Enterprise Architect and Enterprise Architecture in a Digital Enterprise
Module 9: Stakeholder Management
- How to identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication involved
- The use of Architecture Views
- Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management
- Using Trade-off to Support Architecture development
Module 10: Phase A, the Starting Point
- Information necessary to execute the Architecture Vision phase
- How to apply Phase A and how it contributes to Architecture Development Work
- Security-specific Architecture Design that is sufficient — Phase A
- Outputs necessary to proceed with the Architecture Development
Module 11: Architecture Development
- Steps applicable to all ADM Phases
- Risk and Security considerations during the Architecture Development (ADM Phases B to D)
- Relevant Information to produce outputs valuable to the Architecture Development
- How to apply Phases B, C, and D, and how they contribute to the Architecture Development work
- Information relevant to Phase C (Data and Applications) to produce outputs for the Architecture
- Development
- Information needed in Phase D to produce outputs relevant to the architecture development
- Outputs of Phases B, C, and D necessary to proceed with the Architecture Development work
Module 12: Implementing the Architecture
- Risk and Security considerations for Phases E, F, and G
- Steps (Phase E) to create the Implementation and Migration Strategy
- Basic Approaches to Implementation
- Identifying and Grouping Work Packages
- Creating and Documenting Transition Architectures
- The Impact of Migration Projects on the Organization and the Coordination Required
- Why and how Business Value is assigned to each Work Package
- How to Prioritize the Migration Projects (Phase F)
- Confirm the Architecture Roadmap (Phase F)
- The outputs of Phase F necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Implementation
- Inputs to Phase G Implementation Governance
- How Implementation Governance is executed (Phase G)
- Outputs to support Architecture Governance
- How Architecture Contracts are used to communicate with Implementers
Module 13: Architecture Change Management
- Inputs triggering Change Management — Change Requests
- Activities necessary for effective Change Management (Stakeholder Management)
- Outputs relevant to proceed with a Change
Module 14: Requirements Management
- The inputs that feed the Requirements Management Phase
- How the Requirements Management steps correspond to ADM Phase Steps
- The Purpose of the outputs of Requirements Management
Module 15: Supporting the ADM Work
- How The Open Group TOGAF® Library can be used to support the Practitioner’s Work
- Business Scenarios
- The purpose of Compliance Assessments
- How Migration Planning techniques are used to review and consolidate the Gap Analysis results from earlier Phases
- How a Repository can be structured using the TOGAF® Architecture Repository as an example
- What to expect in a well-run Architecture Repository
- How the concepts of Architecture Levels are used to organize the Architecture Landscape
- Different Levels of Architecture that exist in an organization
- Determining the Level that an Architecture is being Developed at
- The Role of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
- Guidelines and Techniques for Business Architecture
- Applying Gap Analysis
- How Iteration can be used in Architecture Practices
- How the Implementation Factor Catalog can be used
- The Content Framework and the Enterprise Metamodel
- When the Architecture Content Framework (ACF) needs to be filled throughout the ADM Cycles
- Using an Enterprise Metamodel
- Using a Taxonomy
- How Risk Assessment can be used
Intended Audience:
- Application Architects
- Application Portfolio Managers
- Business Analysts
- Business Architects
- CIOs and CTOs
- Data Architects
- Enterprise Architects
- I.T. strategists, senior business analysts
- Information Architects
- Infrastructure Architects
- IT Architects
- Others responsible for change programs
- Program Managers
- Project Managers
- Security Architects and Technology Vendors
- Solution Architects
- System Integrators
- Technology Architects
