
A reminder that the presentation for this course can be downloaded from this lecture.
Define a two-to-five year business strategy view that guides the CEO and board with resources, it needs, customers, and competitive positioning through external and internal assessments and a transformation roadmap.
Discover how to build a business locations catalog in Excel or as a map to track offices and stores across geographies, allocate IT services, and evaluate performance.
Explore how a functional decomposition diagram serves as a core enterprise architecture artifact, connecting the business service view and the process catalog, following the recommended spreadsheet-driven approach with subtasks.
Explore data architecture as the framework for organizing an organization's logical and physical data assets. Learn how data lifecycle concepts, security, and classification align data with business needs and strategy.
Leverage the data governance framework to define an enterprise-wide data management approach via nine components, guiding policies, artifacts, and roles from data stewards to CIO.
Explore the information hierarchy view, ranking policy documents and data by importance, criticality, and lifecycle to guide data architects and leaders.
Explore infrastructure architecture, its tools and templates, and how hardware, software, networks, and communications support the deployment of business data and application services.
Analyze how business units require IT infrastructure to deliver goods and services. Map these needs to the infrastructure requirements view, aligning to cloud, service catalog, and standardized components.
Map IT infrastructure to core business services to build a resource needs model that lists people, vendors, costs, and maintenance, visualized with logos for executive clarity.
Explore the system to application cross reference, an enterprise architecture artifact linking infrastructure to SaaS apps, highlighting data flows, service catalog, security gaps, and patch management to optimize IT spend.
Map business units to it infrastructure with a system to cross reference in Excel. Track usage across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and IBM servers to cut waste and costs.
Explore the application architecture framework, or the H model, to categorize organizational apps into logical groups and map them to the service catalog, data, and security.
Use the application to data cross-reference to reveal each application's purpose and the data it holds, guiding cost, utilization, and integration decisions.
A reminder that you can use the downloadable file attached to this lecture as a reference.
Configure Microsoft Visio for enterprise architecture diagrams by setting landscape orientation and an A3 canvas. Enable grid for alignment and use black and white themes to simplify printing.
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My name is Theodore Panagacos and I am a full-time management consultant and Chief Architect practitioner.
If you're like myself and have worked as an Enterprise Architect you'll realize how hard it can be to develop artefacts that are both meaningful and valuable for your organization.
There are heaps of courses out there which help you become and Enterprise Architect but not many will show you exactly what you need to be doing once you start working as one!
Are you an Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst or Consultant who has been struggling with designing architecture models and diagrams and quickly want to take your skills to the next level?
In this course I show you exactly how to develop Enterprise Architecture models and diagrams that are used by the world’s most successful organizations.
As a career Management Consultant in the Enterprise Architecture industry, I’ve been fortunate to work alongside some of the world’s top performing organizations. By working with these companies, not only did I learn first-hand how to design and model architecture diagrams during my own work, but I quickly found I started to teach others about the topic too. This course is the direct result of many years of experience in Enterprise Architecture. Not only is this course realistic and practical, but it will give you the exact details needed to improve your knowledge and understanding of this specialist topic.
Developing architecture artefacts can be a difficult topic to learn but in this course I'm going to guide you through an entire suite of examples so that you will finish as a better architect.
This course will also provide you with practical architecture skills which includes;
Understand the differences between various architecture artefacts and how they're used to make a difference within organizations.
Show you exact real-life examples needed to create Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture and Application Architecture diagrams.
Learn the best-practice methods for setting up Microsoft Visio Professional.
Learn how to model in Visio the same way the architecture professionals do.
And we're going to learn this together, step-by-step.
While this course will teach you the essentials of developing models and diagrams, it has also been designed to make you a more effective Enterprise Architect practitioner. This course covers critical skills that will help you add immediate value to your architecture career. Best of all, the course has been structured in an easy-to-follow format.
This course is suitable for beginners and students at all levels. However, ideally you should have at least a high-level understanding of either IT or Business Analysis to participate.
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Theodore Panagacos
P.S Have I missed a topic you would like covered in this course or do you have a question? I'm here available for you 24/7 so feel free to message me.