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The Practice of Enterprise Architecture (Part III)
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The Practice of Enterprise Architecture (Part III)

Other Aspects of Enterprise Architecture
Created bySvyatoslav Kotusev
Last updated 5/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the role, skills and positions of architects in enterprise architecture practice
  • Know the structure of architecture functions in organizations and their governance bodies
  • Know the features and applicability of various instruments for enterprise architecture
  • Understand the lifecycle of enterprise architecture practice in organizations and the role of external consultancies

Course content

4 sections • 18 lectures • 5h 10m total length

  • Lecture 16.1: General Skills and Qualities of Architects15:50

    Develop broad expertise in business and IT, communicate with stakeholders, collaborate in teams, innovate, and apply systems thinking to design enterprise architecture artifacts.

  • Lecture 16.2: Five Common Archetypes of Architects25:03

    Explore five archetypes of architects in enterprise architecture—solution, domain, business unit, enterprise architects, and architecture managers—covering organizational scopes, domains, and their integration across strategy, technology optimization, and delivery.

  • Lecture 16.3: Hierarchy of Architecture Positions5:27

    Understand the hierarchy of architecture positions from specialists to generalists, detailing solution, domain, business unit, and enterprise architects with their scope, domain expertise, and artifacts such as outlines and designs.

  • Lecture 16.4: Organizational Mapping of Architecture Positions6:34

    Map organization as a domains-by-units matrix, showing enterprise architects across matrix, domain architects and business unit architects across rows and columns, and solution architects in cells, with architecture managers coordinating.

  • Lecture 16.5: Process Mapping of Architecture Positions3:44

    Map architecture positions to enterprise architecture processes, clarifying roles of enterprise, business unit, domain, and enabling domain architects with solution architects in strategic planning, initiative delivery, and technology optimization.

Requirements

  • Basic Understanding of Both Business and IT
  • Completion of Part II of This Course (Enterprise Architecture Artifacts)

Description

Part III of the course The Practice of Enterprise Architecture provides a high-level discussion of other important aspects of enterprise architecture and an EA practice. This part addresses diverse secondary facets of an EA practice omitted in the previous sections including architects, architecture functions, architecture governance, EA tools and modeling languages, EA-related measurements, initiation and maturity of an EA practice as well as the relationship between an internal EA practice and EA consulting.

Part III consists of four consecutive sections:

  • Section 16 (Architects in Enterprise Architecture Practice) discusses the role and skills of architects, common architecture positions often found in organizations, their differences and relationship

  • Section 17 (Architecture Functions in Organizations) discusses the general role and structure of architecture functions in organizations as well as the roles and different types of architecture governance bodies

  • Section 18 (Instruments for Enterprise Architecture) discusses specialized modeling languages and software tools for enterprise architecture, templates for EA artifacts, architecture debt and quantitative measurements for an EA practice

  • Section 19 (The Lifecycle of Enterprise Architecture Practice) discusses the initiation of an EA practice in organizations, maturity of an EA practice and the role of external consultancies in an EA practice

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring Solution and Enterprise Architects
  • Students of Enterprise Architecture
  • All Other People Interested in Enterprise Architecture

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