Avolution ABACUS Training

Effective enterprise architecture relies on formal modeling and analysis. We provide Avolution ABACUS training from hand-on enterprise architects.

Students gain skills and knowledge to create integrated enterprise and domain architectures in this course.

The course will help the student to understand:

  • Avolution ABACUS Mechanics
  • Diagrams, Matrices & Catalogues
  • Use of Properties
  • Organizational and geographic design
  • Information flow
  • Capability Mapping and Capability-based Planning

We provide Avolution ABACUS training as custom enterprise architecture training. We adapt our training to directly support your enterprise architects. They may support strategic change, digital transformation, divisional improvement, or other enterprise change.

Best practices, method, and technqiue

Focus on developing useful enterprise architecture

Avolution ABACUS

Avolution ABACUS Training includes

Best Practice Method, Tool, and Technique integration

Learn to apply the concepts through practical training

Improve speed and quality of delivery

Have confidence you are using Avolution ABACUS to develop quality enterprise architecture

How to Use Avolution ABACUS

Training focused on enterprise architects using Avolution ABACUS. Learn the mechanics of developing formal models and performing analysis.

Consumable Best Practices

Crisp guidance on applying long-lived methods and techniques. Our ABACUS models routinely last years and have many components.

Course Overview

Hands On Avolution ABACUS Training

Learn to develop actionable enterprise architecture.

Avolution ABACUS Training Scope

Technical hands-on how-to modelling. Focused on exercising Avolution ABACUS not on understanding a domain or architectyure analysis.

Case-study with a significant business architecture problem offered in the context of inflight change activity.

Hands-on Exercise Centric Training

We designed exercises to build and reinforce the methods of using Avolution ABACUS. We'll work in a partially populated model to provide extensions and interference.

Course Outline

Avolution ABACUS Training Course Outline

Direct Avolution ABACUS Training on the mechanics of using ABACUS. Reinforced in all the case study exercises.

Architecture Introduction

  • Formal modelling
  • Meta-Model Structure

Basic functions: Navigation, Catalog & Matrices

Building a Model: Component, Relationship & Property

EA Repository Management

Modelling Choices

  • Component selection
  • Translation to a Formal Model
  • Managing State (Current, Candidate, Target)

Diagrams

  • Selection and Design

Analysis

  • Posing Questions
  • Excel Round-Trip
  • Charts for Complex Analysis

Training Options

Avolution ABACUS Training Course Delivery Options

Avolution ABACUS Training is available as a custom course for 5 or more students.

Available in 1-day survey and 3-day hands-on courses.

Avolution ABACUS Training FAQ

Develop Strong Enterprise Architecture Modelling Skills

ConexiamConexiam Enterprise Architecture Consulting Services does two things.

We develop in-house enterprise architecture teams
We deliver transformative enterprise architecture

We are consistent in everything we do. We use our Self-Help items and Packaged Services in our consulting engagements. We develop our people using the same hands-on mentoring approach we use to develop your EA Team.

Our philosophy, tools, method, and approach are available. Donations to the TOGAF Standard or free practical downloads.

Conexiam’s open toolkit lets prospective clients make informed judgement.

Learning to deliver Enterprise Architecture with Avolution ABACUS

Avolution ABACUS Training on Reporting Students analyze a case to create a plan that meets the needs of stakeholders and achieves strategic and tactical objectives..

We pre-populate an ABACUS project file.

Students use formal architecture models and analytics to understand the interactions between the components of the enterprise.

You receive a license to continue to use all Conexiam Navigate tools used in the course

Avolution ABACUS Training

Mechanics of Avolution ABACUS

  • Basic ABACUS functions
    • Navigation inside a project
    • Using Catalog & Matrix
  • Foundation of Formal modelling
  • Using Reference Models & Reference Architecture
  • Manage the ABACUS EA Repository
    • Governing Creation of Enterprise Architecture
    • Managing multiple states (Current, Candidate, and Target)
    • Exploring potential change
  • Visualizing your architecture
    • Diagrams
    • 3-D Images
    • Graphs

Practical Exercises

  • Problem Statement & Stakeholders
    • Identify the problem enterprise architecture must address
    • Use superior architecture to govern your current work
  • Capability-based Business Architecture
    • Identify Gaps that must be filled in a Capability-improvement
  • Information Systems Architecture
    • Fill the Information-systems component of the capability gaps
  • Risk & Security
    • Identify and mitigate security & threats
    • Remove uncertainty on reaching objectives

Avolution ABACUS Training Customization

We customize the Avolution ABACUS Training course to align to your enterprise architecture use case and experience with Avolution ABACUS.

Enterprise Architecture for Strategic Change

Organizations often embark on a strategic change without understanding how to change. Best-in-class architecture always includes guidance on change. We lean heavily on Hambrick's Strategy diamond to test the strategy. This customization uses the Conexiam Navigate Atlas to support Strategy.

Enterprise Architecture Roadmap Development

Focused training on the four Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps

Contact us to schedule your Avolution ABACUS training

Avolution ABACUS Training Course

  • Custom Scheduled for a minimum of five students
  • 1 or 3 days of instruction
    • Lecture
    • Workshop Exercises
  • Electronic copy of all Conexiam courseware and exercise materials
  • Electronic copy of all Conexiam Navigate templates and public architecture tools used in the course
    • Students have access to up-dated courseware, exercise materials, Navigate templates and public architecture contents for over one year
    • Students require their own Avolution ABACUS licenses

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