You will come on this course to learn how to take the first steps to establish your successful Enterprise Architecture practice.
You will learn and apply your newly gained knowledge to create your enterprise architecture charter, select a set of principles that work for you, take away the first draft of your service engagement model and be ready to realise success as you practice.
In this course you will be expected to participate in a team and also work independently to practically apply your learnings using rich examples provided to you.
You will be expected to create content based on your organisation’s context and do some homework to ensure you get the most out of the course.
At the end of the course, you will be equipped with a method, tools and techniques to:
- Finalise your enterprise architecture charter, including a set of key success measures
- Socialise and seek support for your set of principles
- Finalise your service engagement model and be ready to work it
- Finalise your plan to gain support for enterprise architecture work
- Let’s speak the same language – What is Enterprise Architecture?
- How can I tell if my Enterprise Architecture practice is successful?
- Give me a great way I can communicate the value of investing in Enterprise Architecture
- What’s a charter, why should I have one and what do I do with it?
- Principles, do I really need them?
- I need an engagement model that gets stuff done!
- How do I make sure I am not the lone nut in my organisation?
- Surround yourself with awesomeness!
When you complete this course you will:
- Confirm your understanding of what successful enterprise architecture practice is
- Learn how to engage the business to sell the value of enterprise architecture
- Learn how to create an enterprise architecture service charter
- Learn which enterprise architecture principles to use to deliver successful business outcomes
- Learn how to draw and communicate your enterprise architecture model in a way that engages the business and other key stakeholders
- Learn how to evangelise and recruit your organisation to embed enterprise architecture practices .
- Learn how to define a plan to continue to embed enterprise architecture practices
Your highly experienced learning guide will use their experience as a successful enterprise architect to teach you how to be practice through story telling.
You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past organisation to participate in the exercises.
There will be some role play involved to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.
You will take away version 0.1 documents and models for you to continue to practice when you leave the course.
Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will meet you to offer support.
Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Solution Architects
Solution Architects
Infrastructure Architects
IT Leaders who want to establish world class enterprise architecture capabilities
Before the course you must know about:
- Who your key stakeholders are for enterprise architecture in your business? Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix.
- A copy of your organisation’s business and IT strategic plan. Assumption is that you will have read it before the course.
- A view of where your current enterprise architecture team sits in the organisation. An organisation chart will help.
- If you have an existing enterprise architecture charter you might like to bring it with you.
Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises. You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.
This is a one day course.
Start: 9.00am and Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)
Course cost $800
Maximum attendees: 16
Your course is delivered by Dr Christine Stephenson
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