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Enterprise Architects (Part III)
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Enterprise Architects (Part III)

Enterprise Architects in Organizations
Last updated 5/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • The archetype of Enterprise Architects with their place, features and occupation
  • The archetype of Solution Architects with their place, features and occupation
  • Architecture positions in organizations and possible specializations of architects
  • Individual and organizational challenges faced by enterprise architects at work
  • Career paths, professional development and conundrums of enterprise architects

Course content

5 sections29 lectures7h 5m total length
  • Lecture 15.1: Enterprise Architects as an Archetype of Architects10:32
  • Lecture 15.2: Resources and Instruments of Enterprise Architects9:19
  • Lecture 15.3: Activities of Architects in the Organizational Context6:18

    Explore how enterprise architects analyze external and internal environments and provide official and unofficial advisory services to drive digital transformation through two-way matching between business needs and available technologies.

  • Lecture 15.4: Implementation of High-Level Transformation Initiatives11:03
  • Lecture 15.5: Activities of Architects in the Initiative Context16:15

    Enterprise architects guide high level transformation initiatives from conception through execution, balancing diverse driver interests, planning robust architectures, governing exceptions, and revising roadmaps with solution architects and governance committees.

  • Lecture 15.6: The Work of Enterprise Architects in Its Entirety5:24
  • Lecture 15.7: Organization-Centric Work of Enterprise Architects32:21
  • Lecture 15.8: Domain Specialization of Enterprise Architects17:33

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of both business and IT
  • Completion of Part II of this course (Enterprise Architects in Depth)

Description

Part III of the course Enterprise Architects covers various aspects of enterprise architects related to their work in organizations. This part discusses the specialization of enterprise architects in architecture functions in terms of their general archetypes and specific architecture positions, the challenges of their engagement with business leadership, their professional careers and many other questions of immediate relevance to their occupations.

Part III consists of five consecutive sections:

  • Section 15 (The Archetype of Enterprise Architects) describes Enterprise Architects as a major archetype of architects driving high-level digitalization efforts with the specifics of their resources, instruments, activities and work in different contexts

  • Section 16 (The Archetype of Solution Architects) describes Solution Architects as another major archetype of architects serving separate digitalization projects with the specifics of their resources, instruments, activities and work in different contexts

  • Section 17 (Architecture Positions in Organizations) discusses concrete positions in architecture functions through the lens of the archetypes of Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects with their dependence on the size and structure of organizations

  • Section 18 (Challenges of Enterprise Architects) analyzes the problem of achieving effective engagement between enterprise architects and business leaders with the ensuing individual and organizational challenges faced by architects

  • Section 19 (Other Aspects of Enterprise Architects) discusses the career paths of enterprise architects with the associated difficulties, the role of modeling languages, software tools, EA frameworks and professional certifications in their job, as well as the central conundrums of architects

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring solution and enterprise architects
  • Students of enterprise architecture
  • All other people interested in the occupation of enterprise architects