Enterprise Architecture Foundation

Module 1: Introduction and Concepts

What an Enterprise is
The purpose and benefits of Enterprise Architecture
The TOGAF Standard as a framework for EnterpriseArchitecture The four architecture domains
Architecture Abstraction
The Enterprise Continuum
The Architecture Repository
The TOGAF Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel Architecture Capability
Risk Management
Gap Analysis

Module 2: Definitions

Module 3: Introduction to the ADM Phases

Module 4: Introduction to ADM Techniques

Module 5: Introduction to Applying the ADM

Module 6: Introduction to Architecture Governance

Module 7: Architecture Content

The concepts of stakeholders, concerns, architecture views and architecture viewpoints
Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
Architecture deliverables

Enterprise Architecture Practitioner

Module 1: The Context for Enterprise Architecture

Guiding Effective Change: The Purpose of Enterprise
Architecture
What does an Enterprise Architecture look like?
Architecture Capability
Architecture Governance and the role of an Enterprise Architect
Architecture Compliance, Levels of Conformance, Reviews, and the Role of the Architect
How an Architecture enables alignment to Organizational Objectives using Agile development as an example
The need to Manage Multiple Architecture States
Enterprise Security Architecture
Security, a Cross-Cutting Concern
Managing Uncertainty in order to optimize Maximum Business Benefit and Minimum Business Loss

Module 2: Stakeholder Management

How to identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication involved
The use of Architecture Views
Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management
Using Trade-off to Support Architecture development

Module 3: Phase A, The Starting Point

Module 4: Architecture Development

Steps applicable to all ADM Phases
Risk and Security considerations during the Architecture Development (ADM Phases B to D)
Relevant Information to produce outputs valuable to the Architecture Development
How to apply Phases B, C, and D, and how they contribute to the Architecture Development work
Information relevant to Phase C (Data and Applications) to produce outputs for the Architecture Development
Information needed in Phase D to produce outputs relevant to the architecture development
Outputs of Phases B, C, and D necessary to proceed with the Architecture Development Work

Module 5: Implementing the Architecture

Risk and Security considerations for Phases E, F, & G
Steps (Phase E) to create the Implementation and Migration Strategy
Basic Approaches to Implementation
Identifying and Grouping Work Packages
Creating and Documenting Transition Architectures
The Impact of Migration Projects on the Organization and the Coordination Required
Why and how Business Value is assigned to each Work Package
How to Prioritize the Migration Projects (Phase F)
Confirm the Architecture Roadmap (Phase F)
The outputs of Phase F necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Implementation
Inputs to Phase G Implementation Governance
How Implementation Governance is executed (Phase G)
Outputs to support Architecture Governance
How Architecture Contracts are used to communicate with Implementers

Module 6: Architecture Change Management

Module 7: Requirement Management

Module 8: Supporting the ADM Work

How The Open Group TOGAF Library can be used to support the Practitioner’s Work
Business Scenarios
The purpose of Compliance Assessments
How Migration Planning techniques are used to review and consolidate the Gap Analysis results from earlier Phases
How a Repository can be structured using the TOGAF Architecture Repository as an Example
What to expect in a well-run Architecture Repository
How the concepts of Architecture Levels are used to organize the Architecture Landscape
Different Levels of Architecture that exist in an organisation
Determining the Level that an Architecture is being developed at The Role of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
Guidelines and Techniques for Business Architecture
Applying Gap Analysis
How Iteration can be used in Architecture Practices
How the Implementation Factor Catalogue can be used
The Content Framework and the Enterprise Metamodel
When the Architecture Content Framework (ACF) needs to be Filled throughout the ADM Cycles
Using an Enterprise Metamodel
Using a Taxonomy
How Risk Assessment can be used

EAF: Enterprise Architecture Framework