What is Custom Enterprise Architecture Training?
What is Custom Enterprise Architecture Training?
Custom EA Training Approaches
What is Custom Enterprise Architecture Training?
We use a sports-car metaphor when talking about individual ability - What gear are they in?
Are they working hard without the right skills and ability? Red-line a sports car in 1st gear. You get noise, burn fuel, and wear! You just don't get very far. Shift into 3rd. 4th or 6th. You go faster, often much faster. With less work and drama.
The most productive enterprise architects are 50 to 100 times more effective. Yes 50 to 100 times.
Remember that every minute spent on changes your organization won't benefit from is wasted time.
Custom enterprise architecture training is all about helping your people shift gears. This isn't about taking a TOGAF training course and hoping. This is about intentionally developing your team's capabilities.
The training program should follow your EA Capability Roadmap targeting your EA Use Case. A good roadmap drives through your barriers and limitations. It will also include gaps in tools, method, and skills that keep the team from optimal delivery.
- How-to skills training
- EA team method and tools
- Individual Enterprise Architect Mentoring
Custom enterprise architecture training is all about today - directly usable how-to:
- use the best-practice method & process
- apply specific specialist skills
- develop the architecture that helps stakeholders, choose improvements, and guides implementers to deliver the benefits
Training helps your people excel at their jobs.
How do we structure best-practice EA Training?
Most enterprise architects are highly regarded people who were promoted from something else to being an enterprise architect. Compared to being a senior engineer, transformation driver, or implementer, the new role is quite distinct. Most enterprise architects have no training on being an effective enterprise architect.
Our approach is to sustain the strengths that caused you to promote them while developing the new practices that will cause them to excel.
We focus on pragmatic, direct activity serving your EA Use Case.
We use workshops to show, we as a team do, and as a team, review the output. At every step, we develop more useable enterprise architecture.
We prefer not to use structured classroom courses as the primary training vehicle. We prefer online training courses to support other professional development. They let your team dip into the training for reinforcement.
Building Blocks of Custom EA Training
We use standardized EA training building blocks. Many are built around Navigate Atlases. The out-of-the-box programs are drawn from active EA team development.
Enterprise Architecture Training for Capability
The best training programs come from deliberate capability development plans. The EA Capability Reference model provides an EA Team development plan.
We recommend individual development plans built on a skills framework. This simple framework of seven skill areas identifies individual barriers to excellence:
- Reading
- Document use
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Oral communication
- Thinking skills
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organization
- Significant use of memory
- Finding information
- Working with others
Most of our custom EA training focuses on #6 - Thinking Skills.
Develop your own EA Capability Roadmap
Use the same standard reference tools to roadmap your EA Capability
90-day EA Kickstart
Our free 90-day kickstart uses our enterprise architect mentoring
Enterprise Architect's Kickstart tackles the issues we see every day with good architect's who could be great
"Thanks for all the great coaching and content you guys provide. It gives me the confidence I need to tackle the job at hand"
Stephan, Enterprise Architect
Real-world Enterprise Architecture Capability
Conexiam teaches what we do. Enterprise Architecture isn't theoretical concepts. It is our business.
Enterprise Architecture Case Study shows how we deliver EA Capability development with our customer.
“Using this approach, we moved further in 7 weeks than we would have in a year”
Chief Architect
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How-to Skills
Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF & Navigate
Our premiere course. Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF and Navigate is the basis of our customized EA Training. It summarizes enterprise architecture, the essential scaffolding of the TOGAF standard, and an active case-study where the students deliver key architecture output.
Business Architecture Training
Delivering business architecture through capability-based planning. How will the enterprise best meet the strategy, goals & objectives? Understanding, documenting, & analyzing:
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- Corporate & divisional strategy
- Capability, value chain & process
- Information flow
- Organizational & geographic design
Business Architecture for IT-Organization Training
Specialized training on developing an optimal business architecture for an Information Technology Organization.
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Application Architecture
This course provides the skills and knowledge to develop a blueprint of the organization’s application architecture and its alignment to the application portfolio - to design the changes necessary to provide a common understanding of the enterprise in order to drive the changes necessary to meet the set of strategic objectives and tactical demands.
In the real world we rarely have freedom to run to build a greenfield application architecture. Includes how to identify the minimum necessary enterprise architecture constraints:
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- Business Architecture
- Information flow
- Organizational & geographic design
- Data Architecture providing the significant constrains in physical data architecture & repository
- Technical Architecture providing the significant constrains in physical technical architecture & in place infrastructure
- Business Architecture
Information Architecture
Information Architecture straddles the Business Architecture and Information System Architecture domains. Information Architecture focuses on the delivery of information required by business operations to accomplish the business functional mission. This flow of information through the different systems is managed by applications and infrastructure of the enterprise.
Security Architecture
We strongly recommend SABSA Foundation for Security Architecture. We will collaborate to integrate SABSA Foundation into a broader enterprise architecture professional development program.
EA Capability Workshop
Clarify the purpose, objectives and organizational model of a successful EA team. Key output is a roadmap to building the EA team that meets the needs, structure and objectives of the organization.
Stakeholder Engagement Training
Provides the skills and knowledge to perform real stakeholder management – weighing organization and stakeholder preference, internal and external constraints to obtain agreement to an architecture that addresses the set of stakeholder requirements.
EA Governance Workshop
We address a governance challenge faced by your team. Enterprise architecture governance includes the development of enterprise architecture and governing change initiatives with the enterprise architecture.
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EA Method and Tools
Roadmap Method Training
Learn to balance filling gaps with project-execution. Roadmaps require removing risk coming from implementation issues and roadblocks. Includes:
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- Baseline and target architecture, gap & Architecture specification
- Alignment of work packages into projects with clear benefits, outcomes, constraints, and priorities
- Removing risk (uncertainty) and issues surrounding benefit harvesting
Enterprise Architecture Trade-off Training
Be able to weigh stakeholder requirement, motivation, and constraint while remaining on a success path to achievable target architecture. Covers:
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- Set of stakeholder & organizational preferences
- Set of strategy and operational requirements
- Conflict & alignment
- Political & decision making style
Scenario Development
Scenarios provide a tool to determine how to realize a preferred future and how to fit into a probable future. This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to perform basic scenario development. Central to scenario is being able to weigh organization and stakeholder preference, the probable path of major external trends and how forces come into play.
EA Governance Workshop
We address a governance challenge faced by your team. Enterprise architecture governance includes the development of enterprise architecture and governing change initiatives with the enterprise architecture.
View & Viewpoint Development
Best-practice enterprise architecture requires the target to be developed to address the stakeholder's concerns. Developing Architecture Views and Viewpoints is a core method.
Architecture Principle Development
Architecture Principles are a foundation for architecture development. Defining Architecture Principles is a core method.
Stakeholder Management
Learn a set of techniques and skills to perform effective stakeholder management. Classic soft skills—listening, communicating, as well as assessing and analyzing. Tools include:
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- Stakeholder map
- Business Motivation model
- Alignment model
- Effective communication
Leadership
Effective architects lead. They lead architecture teams. They lead stakeholders through transforming their organization. Our leadership curriculum starts with this Leadership and Communications course and continues with the option of professional coaching for you and your team.
ABACUS Training
How to use ABACUS for enterprise architects using ABACUS studio. Learn the mechanics of developing formal models and performing analysis.
How to customize ABACUS for the owner of your enterprise meta-model and content framework.
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Custom EA training: Individual Mentoring
The most productive enterprise architects we work with are 10, 20, or 50 times more productive than average enterprise architects. They are not smarter. They don't necessarily have more experience.
They follow a predictable set of practices
- they know why they are in the room, and focus on the hard problem
- they manage the decision cycle and support efficient decision making
- they manage their time
- they rock their organization's business cycle
- they internalize their stakeholder motivations
- they demonstrate consistent critical thinking
We'll mentor your architects by addressing the barriers to personal excellence.
Conclusion
Develop your EA Team to server your EA Use Case. Address your gaps in tools, method, and skills that keep the team from optimal delivery.
Custom enterprise architecture training is all about today - directly usable how-to:
- use the best-practice method & process
- apply specific specialist skills
- develop the architecture that helps stakeholders, choose improvements, and guides implementers to deliver the benefits
Get the help you need to speed up your journey to a team that excels at enterprise architecture.
