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- 9 June 2008
09:30
– 17:30 • Seminar 1
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| Seminar Outline This full-day seminar covers the introductory fundamentals of EA. Answering the key questions of why do EA, what is EA, and how to be successful at EA, it is aimed that those who wish to get started or re-think their approach, and those who need to understand EA in order to manage it successfully. The seminar will used a mixed learning environment of presentation, group working and discussion. Presentation will be used to convey key topics and introduce points for discussion. Attendees will be encouraged to discuss their own questions and issues in smaller groups and present these for wider discussion. It is an objective that each person takes away at least one action point for making an improvement in their business. The slide pack will contain additional material expanding on the day's topics. The key topics to be presented and discussed will include:
Over 60 organizations have already benefited from this seminar, now in its 3rd year. Last year a delegate commented: - "As good an attempt at covering EA as is possible in one day"! John and Simon
are members of the industry-leading Enterprise Architecture practice
at Serco Consulting. |
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09:30 – 13:00 • Seminar 2
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| Seminar Outline This seminar is a brief introduction to the background, rationale and logic of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture. It will first explore some definitive reasons for the appearance of the Zachman Framework on the scene several years ago. It will then provide an overview of the basic logic of the Framework itself which is derived from the precedent established in the older disciplines of Architecture and Construction; Engineering and Manufacturing. The Framework defines the set of descriptive representations that are required to create a complex object (like an Enterprise) and serve as the basis for changing the object instance (the Enterprise) after it is created. The seminar will also address the implications of producing and of not producing the identified set of descriptive representations in the course of accommodating current demand from the Enterprise. It will show the importance of ensuring that long term fundamentals and building blocks are addressed and retained into the future. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about the Framework directly from John Zachman who is recognised internationally as one of the foremost authorities on Enterprise Architecture. |
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09:30 – 13:00 • Seminar
3
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Seminar Outline EA means different things to different people. One of the most common questions is ‘What does EA look like?”. This seminar uses a self-service portal application to illustrate the complete range of EA artefacts including business architecture, information architecture, application architecture, and technology architecture, at both the enterprise and project level. Then, it describes the relationship of the artefacts to each other and to other aspects of EA including portfolio management, repositories and governance.
Mike Rosen is
Director of Cutter Consortium’s Enterprise Architecture Practice
and Senior Consultant with its Business-IT Strategies Practice.
He has more than 25 years of technical leadership experience and
currently provides expert consulting services in the areas of EA
and SOA. |
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| 09:30
– 13:00 • Seminar 4
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| Seminar Outline This interactive seminar uses practical examples and case studies to provide guidance on making EA and SOA work effectively together in holistic fashion. Delegates will explore how successful organizations recognize service orientation as a very real business phenomenon and employ services as the conduit that fosters business-IT alignment and enables a seamless journey through EA to solution delivery. A highlight of this approach is that the solution must achieve measurable business value and business process improvement, increasingly using BPM to expedite the process. We therefore examine how to employ a deliverable driven – as opposed to a task driven – delivery process. This is very important for consistency of work and for measurability through specification: “you can’t control what you can’t manage, and you can’t manage what you can’t specify.”
Paul has over
30 years experience in the management and development of large-scale
business systems, and has a uniquely practical understanding of
the problems companies face as they apply new technologies in search
of business value. He is a widely published author who has written
four books on IT architectures and methodologies, including Service
Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices. |
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14:00
– 17:30 • Seminar 5
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Seminar Outline In response to the many requests from the 2007 conference for examples, this seminar uses the new Zachman Enterprise Framework terminology as applied to a number of situational cases to illustrate how the classification helps in understanding and making changes to the enterprise. As we work through the cases we will illustrate the answers to the following questions.
This tutorial
will help delegates understand the basic connection between the
classification template and the real world implementation of the
business enterprise. Please note
that John Zachman’s morning tutorial or previous attendance at one
of his courses is a pre-requisite for this session. |
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14:00
– 17:30 • Seminar 6
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Seminar Outline Many organisations embark on the building of their Enterprise Architecture with high hopes, aiming to create a stable reference point against which their systems, business processes and organisational structures may be improved to meet the objectives and goals of the enterprise. In many cases the results have been excellent; in others they have been disappointing. The reasons for success or failure are well known and are not “rocket science”. Building an Enterprise Architecture is a task that requires clear objectives, good planning and a disciplined yet flexible approach. It is important to achieve a critical mass of relevant, “joined up” information early on, from which reliable conclusions can be drawn. This session describes typical scenarios where the EA can provide real value – these include business process re-engineering, business service definition, project portfolio planning and service-oriented application design – all starting from a kernel EA which is developed progressively to meet evolving business objectives and priorities. The session is illustrated by case studies from the financial and healthcare industries. Areas covered:
Bob has been
analysing, building - and writing and teaching about – Enterprise
Architectures and their forerunners for over 20 years. He has built
EAs for banks, insurance companies, airports, railways, energy companies,
healthcare providers, truck builders and textile companies as well
as government departments in the UK and overseas. |
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14:00
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Seminar Outline Business processes are an important component of an Enterprise Architecture, being the essence of what an enterprise does and how it delivers value. Properly used, they provide a powerful and relevant framework for demonstrating how architectural components, such as data or applications, support or impede the creation of value. The fly in the ointment is that so many organisations struggle when working with business processes. From the outset, they fail to properly identify their true, end-to-end business processes, and it’s all downhill from there. This seminar will introduce proven techniques for working with business processes, and is packed with practical frameworks and tips to get you off to a successful start. The emphasis is on techniques that are especially valuable for architects, especially how to discover processes, but also introducing business process concepts, scoping and assessing processes, and illustrating process implications to business and IT communities. Specifics include:
Alec has managed
his own consulting and education business for 25 years, helping
clients from Ireland to Illinois to India with facilitation, strategy
development, requirements specification, data management, and business
process improvement. Alec is the principal author of “Workflow Modelling”,
a best-selling book in the field. |
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