Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop

Why use the Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop

Workshops balance training and consulting. They use experienced consultants using a strong method to quickly achieve powerful results.

You get:

transferred experience to improve your EA Team
enterprise architecture use case report
optimized design for your optimized enterprise architecture team
- staff & required skills
- organization
understanding of your team's capability map
an improvement roadmap
architecture governance framework
recommended architecture review board structure
recommended EA repository
- deliverables
- work product
- architecture model repository

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Custom Enterprise Architecture Training to Boost Your Team

Enterprise Architecture Capability Service Outline

Workshop Knowledge Required

In order to complete the Enterprise Architecture Capability workshop starts with a gathering a broad set of knowledge is required.

Knowledge Required	Activity
EA Context	Interview Determine Existing maturity of the EA Team EA Team's normal engagement model Critical knowledge: where in the Decision Cycle does the EA Team work
Business Operations	Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview Determine: Decision-making approach In-place organization Critical knowledge: ability to tell bad news
Business Context	External Assessment & Interview Determine: business position & ecosystem Critical knowledge: is the organization facing a transformation or dealing with a 'burning platform'
Business Objectives for Enterprise Architecture Team	Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview Determine: Enterprise Architecture Use Case Architecture for Strategy Architecture for Portfolio Architecture for Project Architecture for Solution Delivery Specialist use case Mitigating Technology Risk, IT Modernization, Digital Transformation, Cloud Transformation, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Acquisition Integration, Security Architecture key consumer expectations Critical knowledge: preconceptions about enterprise architecture & organizational value, and experience with current EA Team
Architecture Governance	Participant Experience & Interview Identify: Decision-making model Selection method Implementation method In-place Organization Critical knowledge: ability to tell bad news
Alignment with Other Frameworks	Participant Experience & Interview Determine Use of decision-making & planning frameworks Commitment to other frameworks Whether EA fills-in or falls-back Critical knowledge: Normal approach to change and execution
Implementation Management	Interview Determine project execution success Determine portfolio management maturity Critical knowledge: strength of implementation governance

Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop Toolkit

Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop uses Conexiam Navigate toolkit.

There are four broad Enterprise Architecture Use Cases:

Enterprise Architecture to support Strategy
Enterprise Architecture to support Portfolio
Enterprise Architecture to support Project
Enterprise Architecture to support Solution Deployment

Enterprise Architecture Capability Reference Architecture

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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 and 1-2 recommended leaders in the organization
Interactive Workshop	Interactive workshop has three separate sections Confirming the enterprise architecture use case Designing the EA Team Developing the improvement roadmap
Deliverables Preparation	Document enterprise architecture use case report enterprise architecture team design staff & required skills organization organization placement enterprise architecture capability map architecture governance framework architecture review board structure architecture roadmap EA repository design deliverables work product architecture model repository
Deliverable Completion	Joint activity to document
Skill Development	Based on configuration choices

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Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop Deliverables

Deliverable formality varies depending on the configuration.

Deliverable	Activity
Enterprise Architecture Use Case	Agreed Use Case Agreed Design Constraints
Enterprise Architecture Capability Model	Map EA Capability model to 2-4 Capability Attributes (Model Output in HTML Format Identify critical capabilities
EA Team Deliverables	Review purpose & template of standard deliverables (Options Assessment, Decision Document, Solution Architecture, Roadmap, Get-well Recommendation) Map standard deliverables to existing organization documents & processes (10-day only)
Enterprise Architecture Models	Agreed use of formal models Critical model-kinds Depth of modelling
Staffing & Skills	Organizational model Staffing outline Skill outline
Governance Framework	1-day: identification of common requirements 10-day: alignment to existing governance structures
Process Alignment	1-day: identification of touchpoints 5-day: identification of improvements
EA Capability Roadmap	1-day: summary discussion 5-day: interactive development of capability roadmap 10-day: work package and outcome development

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Next steps for Workshop

Enterprise Architecture Capability Workshop Configuration

Configuration Options:

Selection between two formats
- 1 day - workshop, deliverables created to whiteboard / outline level, joint analysis and conclusion
- 3 day - joint preparation, joint analysis and conclusion, EA Capability and Roadmap in model
- 10 day - - joint preparation, conversation and mentoring on EA team development,, deliverables created to completion, joint analysis and conclusion
Deliverable or skill development priority
Delivery model - remote or on-site

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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

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