Initiative Strategy Workshop
Purpose of the Data Architecture Foundation Workshop
Why Use the Data Architecture Foundation Workshop
Data Architecture Foundation Workshop Service Outline
- Data Architecture Foundation Workshop Knowledge Required
- Data Architecture Foundation Workshop Activity
Data Architecture Foundation Workshop Deliverables
Configuration Options for Data Architecture Foundation Workshop
Purpose of the Data Architecture Foundation Workshop
A Data Architecture clearly identifies the major types and sources of data, and the required data management resources to create data assets.
The Data Architecture Foundation Workshop help an EA Team:
- clarify the data landscape
- determine the guidelines for data governance
This workshop needs participants open to finding your organization's data landscape.
Why Use the Data Architecture Foundation Workshop?
Workshop balance training and consulting.
You get the foundation of your Data Architecture and develop your EA Team's skills, method, and technique.
Your EA Team will gain:
- skills to effectively model the structure of the data architecture
- techniques to identify data needs, data sources, and flow
- understanding of what they need to specify to enable data flow, data integration and data management
- basics of good architecture:
- candidate and target architecture
- end-to-end models
- architecture alternatives and trade-off
- architecture specifications
Stakeholders benefit from a consistent business understanding of the data landscape. This will be used to drive implementation that enables effective data governance and data management.
They will have the means to direct and govern implementations.
Data Architecture Foundation Service Outline
Workshop Knowledge Required
In order to complete the Initiative Strategy workshop starts with a gathering a broad set of knowledge is required.
| Knowledge Required |
Activity |
| Business Operations | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Determine:
Critical knowledge: awhat your organizations does for a living |
| Language of the Business | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: Language of your business |
| Current Data Management and Data Governance Initiatives | Participant Experience & Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: Depth of experience and maturity discussing data governance and data management |
Initiative Strategy Workshop Toolkit
Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop uses Conexiam Navigate toolkit.
The Initiative Strategy Workshop follows the Practitioner’s Guide’s approach to the use case architecture to support strategy.
Architecture Techniques
Reference Architectures
- Consumer Goods Data Architecture
- IT4IT (IT Department Data Architecture)
Workshop Activity
Using the knowledge gathered the workshop activity will create the deliverables and develop skill and experience in your EA team. You will need to specify whether your priority is skill development or the deliverables.
| Activity |
Outcome |
| Interview | Interview with EA Team leader, 1 or 2 recommended leaders in the organization, and the initiative leader |
| Interactive Workshop |
Interactive workshop has three separate sections
|
| Deliverables Preparation |
Understand your enterprise context |
| Deliverable Completion |
Joint activity to develop the Subject and Subject Area Models |
| Skill Development | Based on configuration choices |
Data Architecture Foundation Deliverables
The formal workshop deliverables are the responsibility of our customer's EA Team. We follow this approach to ensure your EA Team is developing their skills. Conexiam will facilitate their development.
The 1-day workshop will have less formal deliverables.
| Deliverable | Activity |
| Subject Model | The 8-12 Subjects that describe your data landscape |
| Subject Area Model | 5-10 Entities that define each subject and their relationships that describe your data topology |
| Data Governance Foundation | Subject-owner identification and role description |
Data Architecture Foundation Workshop Configuration
Typically, Conexiam workshops are held in preparation of a data governance or data management initiative.
Configuration Options:
- Selection between two formats
- 1 day - directed development of the model with the Data Architects and EA Team
- 3 day - following 1-day initiative joint workshop data (subject) owners and other stakeholders
- Deliverable or skill development priority
- Delivery model - remote or on-site.
Conexiam Enterprise Architecture Consulting Experience
Conexiam has a small, dedicated team. We deliver transformative enterprise architecture around the globe in many industries. We develop strong EA Teams.
Workshops are packaged services. Work we regularly do in more complex consulting engagement. We simply put together the standard approach and take advantage of our ability to engage in a new context and leverage our method, tools, and experience.
We use a consistent approach, Navigate. Navigate is Conexiam's body of enterprise architecture intellectual property.
Our approach, tools, and method are openly available. We are so confident our method is best-in-class that we let our peers review it. The core of the TOGAF Standard guidance reflects our industry-best-practice approach and toolkit.
Our approach to developing enterprise architecture is the Practitioners' Guide to Delivering Enterprise Architecture.
Our approach to developing Enterprise Architecture Teams is the Leader's Guide to Developing EA Teams.
Our approach to enterprise architecture governance is the Governor's Guide in the TOGAF Library.
Our approach to executing a Digital Transformation is the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation. The government of China is adopting the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation as a standard.
We give away our method. Everything we own is freely available through a Creative Commons license. Take it, change it, distribute it.
If you are considering Conexiam’s services, our philosophy, tools, method, and approach are available
Reach an informed conclusion
We think the choice is obvious
Next Steps for an Initiative Strategy Workshop
The next step is contacting Conexiam Consulting sales.
We will ask about the scope of the initiative your architecture project will support. We'll ask about the size of the EA team you want involved and their experience. Last we'll ask the configuration questions.
We prefer to deliver this workshop remotely to ensure we have ready access to all of our tools. Assuming we don't need to arrange work permits, we can normally deliver the Data Architecture Foundation workshop within six weeks.
You can expect to pay $8,000 for a 1-day and $25,000 for a 3-day Data Architecture Foundation Workshop.
Onsite will be 50-75% more.
The Data Architecture Foundation Workshop takes a couple of days and sets you up for success.
We would love to hear from you
sales@conexiam.com
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We follow a deliberate process. We will improve individual skills, your method, your engagement with stakeholders and help you guide effective change.
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