Standard 10.0 - Level 1 Enterprise Architect Course

Explore the seven core concepts of the TOGAF standard, including enterprise definition, architecture domains (BDAT), the ADM, deliverables, artifacts and building blocks, the enterprise continuum, architecture repository, and architecture capability.

Define your scope early in the TOGAF ADM framework, recognizing that enterprise means the highest level description, which may cover the whole organization or a focused subset.

Master the four architecture domains of the TOGAF standard—business, data, application, and technology (bdat)—through a layered ADM approach to building enterprise architecture.

Discover how the architecture development method (adm) drives enterprise architecture through phases a through h, from preliminary setup and vision to implementation, monitoring, and ongoing requirements management.

Understand the architecture content framework with artifacts, deliverables, and building blocks, including reusable architecture and solution building blocks and contractually approved outputs.

Explore the enterprise continuum, from foundation architectures to organization specific architectures, and distinguish architecture continuum from solutions continuum, illustrating how generic documents become organization specific.

Store and organize architectural outputs across the adm in a centralized architecture repository, enabling versioning, secure access, and reference to metamodels, architecture landscape, standards library, and governance documents.

Establish and evaluate an enterprise architecture capability using TOGAF, including training, framework comparisons, governance, and architecture contracts in the preliminary ADM phase.

Explore the architecture development method (admm) at the heart of TOGAF, detailing ten phases from preliminary through eight phases A–H, with ongoing requirements management.

Explore the TOGAF ADM cycle, detailing eight phases a through h with requirements management at its center, and how iterations, pauses, and tailoring adapt the process to your organization.

The preliminary phase defines architecture capability and principles, outlines inputs from the TOGAF library and business strategies, and yields outputs like the tailored framework and architecture repository.

Develop a high-level architecture vision in phase a that defines business value and capabilities, assesses readiness for transformation, identifies stakeholders, and secures approval for the statement of architecture work.

Phase B of the ADM develops the target business architecture by analyzing the baseline, identifying gaps, and outlining a roadmap, including stakeholder reviews and business requirements.

Phase C focuses on information systems architecture by defining data and application architectures, using shared inputs, steps, and outputs. It develops target architectures and a candidate roadmap based on gaps.

Define the phase c data architecture with baseline and target models, perform gap analysis using TOGAF data management inputs, and finalize data artifacts like the logical data diagram.

Develop the target application architecture and a candidate roadmap by analyzing the baseline, identifying gaps, and defining work items to resolve impacts, then finalize in the architecture definition document.

develop the target technology architecture by aligning baseline systems with business goals, data, and applications, identify gaps, and translate them into a practical architecture roadmap.

Enter phase e, opportunities and solutions, consolidate gap analyses into a draft architecture roadmap from baseline to target, outlining transition architectures and building blocks.

Phase f guides migration planning from draft architecture to an approved implementation plan, assigns business value and return on investment to work packages, and aligns with enterprise architecture frameworks.

Direct phase g implementation governance by monitoring changes for conformity to design, securing approvals, and using the architecture contract, compliance reviews, and migration plan to guide deployment and post-implementation review.

Phase h guides architecture change management by maintaining governance and compliance, realizing value from deployments, monitoring the environment, and handling minor changes or major redesigns.

Manage change continuously across all admm phases with the requirements management phase; a central, ongoing process that handles change requests and sustains architecture requirements via the architecture repository.

Explore the nine essential ADM techniques in the TOGAF architecture development method and how they apply to principles, gap analysis, readiness assessment, and alternatives.

Establish enduring rules guiding enterprise architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains. Frame these rules in the preliminary phase to drive decisions and clarify when to favor third-party software.

Identify and engage powerful stakeholders to win buy-in by clearly showing how plans benefit them. Build a communication plan, read the room, and tailor updates by stakeholder power and interest.

Explore architecture patterns and borrow best practices for architectural building blocks (abs) and solution building blocks (sbs) to avoid reinvention within the TOGAF ADM parts B, C and D.

Explore gap analysis in enterprise architecture, comparing baseline and target architectures to identify changes, additions, and removals. Revise targets with clear justification.

Explore migration planning techniques for the ADM phases E and F, including the implementation factor catalog, state evolution table, and the business value assessment technique.

Interoperability requirements span business interoperability, information interoperability, and technical interoperability to share data and services, enabling access to customer databases and preventing teams from becoming silos within the architecture.

Assess and quantify an organization's readiness for change with BRTA, using maturity models to define readiness factors, baselines, targets, risk mitigation, and a migration plan.

Learn risk management by identifying and classifying risks from baseline to target architecture, evaluating initial and residual risks, and applying mitigations such as early demos and frequent client involvement.

Identify alternative target architectures and evaluate trade-offs among them using criteria like flexibility, cost, risk, return on investment, and alignment with architecture principles.

Define architecture governance as a system of management and control over enterprise architecture, aligned with the GAF standard, guiding processes, people, and technology through an architecture contract.

The architecture board, a cross-functional executive group, governs the architecture governance strategy, making decisions, enforcing compliance, and guiding change management to drive business improvements and cost savings.

Establish architecture contracts as joint agreements between development partners and sponsors on deliverables. Sign off ensures requirements are met and monitored by a governance board.

Assess architecture governance by distinguishing irrelevant, consistent, compliant, conformant, and non conformant implementations to ensure a project matches the architecture specification or identify gaps.

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