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Audience	Overview	Outline	Speaker Biography

Business Architecture Workshop: Show me the Models

1 Day Seminar

Speaker:

Stan Locke

This seminar will develop the business ideas in the Zachman Enterprise Architecture and demonstrate the range and analytic power of the framework for business analysis. The hands-on session familiarises the delegate with the primitive constructs in each cell of the top two rows of the Framework by utilising a case study method. This seminar benefits from gathering suggestions about best practices from previous attendees, reviewed by John Zachman and Stan Locke.

To enable the delegate to understand and create the complete set of business model representations in the Scope and Business rows of the Zachman framework.
To gain practical experience of basic framework models and their business use.
To understand and exploit the differences between models used for planning (primitives) and those used for implementation (composites).
To understand the principles to be adopted in creating these representations to ensure that models are robust and flexible
To understand the role of repositories and software tools in managing the models

Delegates should have some knowledge of Enterprise Architecture. For those who do not, attendance of the two day Enterprise Architecture seminar, presented by John Zachman, is HIGHLY recommended.

Enterprise Architect
IT Architect
Solutions Architect
Applications Architect
IT Strategy
Systems Analyst/Manager
Consultant
Business Analyst
Project Manager

Delegates should have some knowledge of Enterprise Architecture. For those who do not, attendance of the two day Enterprise Architecture seminar, presented by John Zachman, is recommended.

IDENTIFYING AND DEFINING SCOPE MODELS (Row 1)

• Identifying the Universe of Discourse
• Identifying the lists of fundamental enterprise elements
• Abstracting from Instances to Types of element (Row 1)
• Identifying relationships between the elements in the lists
• Validating and testing for completeness

IDENTIFYING AND DEFINING BUSINESS MODELS (Row 2)

• Understanding the business meta-models and underlying assumptions
• Defining the elements and relationships in the Business Models
• Validating and testing for completeness
• Building up the supporting information
• Guidelines for determining quality of business model analysis

WORKING THROUGH THE CASE STUDY

• Defining Scope Lists in a practical situation
• Using the Row 1 Models to determine the enterprise boundary
• Defining Business Model elements and relationships
• Appreciating the relevance of primitive and composite models
• Comparing the merits of different solutions

MODELLING FACILITATION

• Optimising the team structure
• Ensuring business ownership and engagement
• Guidelines for soliciting input
• Tools for knowledge sharing

MODELLING TOOLS AND SUPPORT

• Repositories & Modeling Tools:
• Selecting the right types for each perspective
• Review of workshop results with a repository tool
• Guidelines for managing change: The “As is” vs. the “To be” Models

Stan Locke

As Managing Director of Metadata Systems Software, Stan Locke provides leadership and consulting support to Canada's leading corporations and large government organisations in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, including Business Entity Modeling, Business Flow Modeling, Database Management and Repository Development. His specialised capability in model management integration, software engineering and project implementation will provide you with the unique know-how to strategically implement and manage Enterprise Architecture.