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- 8 June 2009
09:30
17:30 Seminar 1
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| Seminar Outline This full day seminar, using a mixture of presentation, discussion and group work, is for those starting in EA, and also those who wish to refresh their approach. Key learning points will be presented and then opened-up for discussion, during which delegates will explore the relevance of the point to their own organization. A group exercise will run through the day resulting in specific action points for each delegate to make an immediate improvement in their business. The key topics to be presented and discussed will include:
Now in its fourth year and fully revised to take account of updates to TOGAF, Zachman and the current economic outlook, over 80 organisations have already benefited from this seminar and its practical and pragmatic approach. |
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09:30 17:30 Seminar 2
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Seminar Outline Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as the next major architectural style, especially for enterprise applications. The potential benefits of SOA in terms of flexibility, agility, cost, and time to market have swept it into the limelight. But is the marketing hype just setting up SOA to deliver another major disappointment? Not if we can help it! This seminar starts with the basis concepts of SOA: architecture, services, business processes, semantics, and then goes into details of the design of SOA solutions, from business analysis to service design and finally implementation, showing how to design services and applications that deliver the value that SOA promises. Delegates will gain an overall understanding of SOA, an appreciation for solution design criteria and tradeoffs, and get an opportunity to apply these to example scenarios during the seminar 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 17:30 Seminar 3
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Seminar Outline The 10th anniversary of the first EAC Europe is a good time to reflect on the progress that Enterprise Architecture has made since its emergence as a discipline. We know that EA is challenging, that it is not a repeatable, “one-size fits all” process, and that it is a skill that you can only really learn through practice. This seminar is aimed at EA practitioners and managers who have moved beyond the basics and have a body of experience to share and reflect upon. Using innovative facilitation techniques, the seminar leaders will guide participants to discover recurrent patterns, pinpoint the key factors that contribute to success or failure in EA and generate ideas for greater success in the future. The seminar will be lively, interactive and fun. Individual and group work will be interspersed with contributions from previous EAC presenters and major EA practitioners.
Peter Haine and Sally Bean are popular speakers who have extensive experience with Enterprise Architecture in a wide range of organizations in the private and public sector. Please note that 3 years experience in EA is a pre-requisite for this seminar. |
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| 09:30
13:00 Seminar 4
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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 5
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Seminar Outline Enterprise architects typically produce business models that describe (map) the business in order to plan and design IT architectures and solutions. However, many architects now see the need to step up a level – to engage with the business directly in order to plan and design business architectures for business improvement and survival in an increasingly hostile environment. This calls for a new kind of business modelling, which directly addresses business concerns. Among other things, we need to explore the kind of value a specific business provides to its stakeholders, and how the added value can be maintained and extended. This may result in structural changes to the business, not just IT requirements for software systems and services. It should also help produce more agile IT architectures – in other words, ones that can accommodate future business improvement without significant software change. In this highly practical half-day seminar, we shall be using a rich case study to demonstrate how a combination of familiar and newly emerging business modelling techniques can be used to identify and plan business improvements. What you will learn:
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| 14:00
17:30 Seminar 6
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Seminar Outline Learn how the new Zachman Certified programme is helping Enterprise Architects understand, use and contribute to the body of knowledge relating to ‘Primitives’. We will review these ‘primitive’ abstractions and their functional use in building out the enterprise. This includes discussing how they are formed, how they bring quality assurance and how they are used in the solution specification. Do we have time to think about the design before the solution is implemented? What are the practical ways of using these solutions to build out the enterprise architecture? Finally, the community of practice and the collaboration contribution will be covered. Stan is the Managing Director of Zachman Framework Associates with extensive experience in model management and project implementation. Please note that John Zachman’s morning tutorial or previous attendance at one of his courses would be a useful pre-requisite for this session. |
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14:00
17:30 Seminar 7
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Seminar Outline The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™) is a comprehensive architecture framework and methodology which enables the design, evaluation and implementation of the right architecture for an enterprise. The framework is vendor and technology neutral and can be adopted by any organization as an architecture method. One of the design principles of TOGAF is not to be prescriptive in terms of the set of architecture deliverables, but rather to give guidance to the practitioner in aligning the deliverables with the appropriate industry frameworks such as Zachman, DODAF and FEAF. This seminar will provide a comprehensive overview of the Architecture Development Method (ADM) and Enterprise Continuum that are the core elements of TOGAF. The objectives of this seminar are to:
Stuart Macgregor is an internationally recognised expert in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance. |
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