Pre-Conference Seminars - Wednesday 16 June 2010

09:30-17:30
EA Fundamentals - Practical Steps to Delivering Value

John Good Capgemini

Mick Adams Capgemini

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:

• Why we do EA. The purpose and benefits of an EA approach. How to identify the stakeholders in EA and what value it brings to them.
• Delivering EA. A 6-step guide to getting started. Finding the real needs and taking the best approach - delivering value fast. How to sustain the effort and realize the benefits.
• The EA toolkit. Frameworks, methods and tools - what they are and when to use them. A roadmap to developing your capability over time.
• Managing EA. Governance and quality management; identifying just what you need, and no more. Integrating EA into the broader business.
• Next steps. Getting further value from this conference and taking action afterwards.

Now in its fifth year and fully revised to take account of updates to TOGAF, Zachman and the current economic outlook, over 100 organisations have already benefited from this seminar and its practical and pragmatic approach.

09:30-17:30
Driving Business Performance with Enterprise Architecture

Chris Potts Corporate Strategist Dominic Barrow

This full-day seminar and workshop is about how to maximise the contribution of Enterprise Architecture (EA) to strategic business leadership and value-creating investments in change. It focuses on how Enterprise Architects drive big-picture improvements in business performance, in the context of corporate and business strategies. It will help you to benchmark and develop your organisation's maturity at exploiting EA capabilities and architectural innovations, including:

• The Double E, Double A strategy for integrating EA with business leadership
• How to think like an enterprise investor: using structural performance ratios to make EA choices
• EA, business innovation, and the end-to-end process of investing in change
• Maximising EA s contribution and influence: the Enterprise Architect s dashboard
• Being masters of uncertainty: strategy scenarios and architectural impacts
• Understanding the politics of EA, and its influence on business culture

09:30 - 13:00
Introduction to the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture

John Zachman President Zachman International

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.

09:30 - 13:00
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF™): A Comprehensive Overview

Stuart Macgregor CEO Real IRM

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. This workshop 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 workshop are to:

• provide an overview of TOGAF as a framework and method
• illustrate how TOGAF should be used with other industry frameworks
• provide a practical view on the outcomes of applying TOGAF

09:30 - 13:00
The Evolution of Enterprise Data Modelling

Chris Bradley Business Consulting Manager IPL

Tim Franklin IPL

With its roots in DBMS implementation, the relevance of data modelling to enterprise architecture has often been questioned. Many of us will be scarred by the attempts to create 20ft wide 2000 entity models of the whole corporation. Others will say that models have no place as we're implementing packages or SOA solutions. But the world has moved on. Today's business systems landscape isn't just about developing "new" DBMS based systems. The business systems portfolio contains a variety of additional components such as ERP packages, BPM Suites, BI & DW systems, Mashups & Portals, The Cloud and SOA & XML message based systems. So, is DATA important in these systems - you bet. Has modelling moved on to cater for these? Well - that's what this talk is about and it's why Enterprise Architects really need to know the fundamentals of modelling and how to engage with the business using different levels of models. We may be familiar with how to create a database from a logical and physical data model. But do the rules change when we're dealing with ERP, Mash-ups, XML or SOA applications and trying to link all these together? How can we leverage existing logical data models for this new audience? And how can we use high level models to engage more effectively with the business? This half day seminar will first re-emphasise the "traditional" place modelling has in the DBMS planning and design lifecycle. It will then go on to show how data modelling can be used and why it's vital in the other areas of the application portfolio:

• Why data modelling is increasingly important at an enterprise level
• What types of data model should an organisation have and develop
• When to develop models top-down and when to do them bottom up
• How to apply data models to data placement and management strategies in differing circumstances (ERP, SOA, MDM, Cloud, DW &BI)
• How to manage models and keep them relevant and current
  

14:00 - 17:30
Realizing the Potential of the Zachman Framework™

Stan Locke Managing Director Zachman Framework Associates

John Zachman's seminal work, "A Framework for Information Systems Architecture" has been updated and aligned with the growing global business and methodology needs. Over the past decade the Framework™ content and graphics have gained wide acceptance in the EA business community, a large number of industries and a wide geographic dispersion.

Now, as this decade begins, we are now moving on to the next stage of applied research and development by elaborating Framework™. Those involved are academic business educators, methodologists, ontologists, and tool vendors. This seminar will show you

• how a methodology deliverable can be extracted into the Framework™ classification
• how these component pieces can be examined for design consistency and quality
• and how to re-assemble and re-deploy these pieces back into the enterprise solution

Please note that John Zachman's morning seminar or previous attendance at one of his courses is a pre-requisite for this session.

14:00 - 17:30
Introduction to ArchiMate

Harmen van den Berg BiZZdesign

A complete approach to enterprise architecture (EA) requires: (1) a framework describing architectural viewpoints; (2) a language for architectural descriptions; (3) a method for constructing architectures.

The Open Group's TOGAF standard is the leading open method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. The Open Group's ArchiMate standard is the language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships.

In this seminar, the ArchiMate language is explained, including techniques for visualizing and analyzing enterprise architecture. Based on examples from real-life cases, we show the way ArchiMate supports modeling and visualizing enterprise architecture. Also the relation between ArchiMate and TOGAF is explained.

Delegates will learn from this session:

• ArchiMate in a nutshell
• modeling and visualizing EA with ArchiMate
• How to deliver EA using ArchiMate and TOGAF

14:00 - 17:30
From Process Architecture to Design and Requirements - A Case Study

Alec Sharp Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd

This seminar addresses the challenges and successful techniques for getting from scope-level architectures into detailed process and system requirements. To encourage use of enterprise architectures and to support their bottom-up refinement via project-level work, we must promote practical analysis techniques that integrate smoothly with architectural perspectives.

The seminar first looks at what functional requirements are, why they are so difficult to develop, and how these techniques help. We'll pay special attention to the problematic "great leap downward" from architecture to specification-level requirements, and the integration of process, application, and data perspectives. Next, we'll show how these techniques were applied on a recent project. In this case study, an organization completed their initial process architecture (described in the speaker's one hour conference session) and immediately had a need for the design of a critical new process, and the definition of IT and other requirements. This project will illustrate the application of these techniques, highlighting how architectural considerations impacted process design, and how process design seguéd into the discovery and validation of various types of requirements. Guidelines and tips based on this and other project experiences will be shared.

Key topics include:

• A simple framework incorporating business process models, use cases, service specifications, and data models
• Scope, concept, and specification (planner, owner, and designer) views for each technique.
• Why techniques from commercial software or military/aerospace environments fare poorly in business or government settings
• Feedback from the project perspective back to the enterprise architecture
• Lessons on making architecture useful to analysts and developers

This session is an extended version of the 'Mind-the-Gap' presentation delivered by Alec Sharp at the 2008 conference, which was the top-rated presentation that year.