Scenario-Based Architecture Roadmap Workshop

Why Use the Scenario-Based Architecture Roadmap Workshop?

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

You get useful enterprise architecture and improve your EA Team's skills, method, and technique.

Your EA Team will gain:

method to identify plausible futures
approach to link goals and risk appetite to targets and transition states
skills to map stakeholder concerns to candidate transition states
techniques to re-sequence changes to reach plausible futures and transition states
understanding of when to engage with stakeholders to select between architecture alternatives and perform trade-off

Your decision makers will gain an understanding of:

where they have control levers
where they have additional risk
sequences that change effort and risk
what plausible futures they must react to

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Custom Enterprise Architecture Training to Boost Your Team

Scenario-Based Architecture Roadmap Service Outline

Workshop Knowledge Required

In order to complete the Enterprise Architecture Stakeholder Engagement 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: role and strength of the EA Team in the Decision Cycle
Problem Statement	Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview Identify What is the ask What problem architects should work on Critical knowledge: why the architects are in-the-room
Business Context	External Assessment & Interview Determine business position & ecosystem Scenario forces External Events External Choices Critical knowledge: forces and events surrounding the scenarios
Business Objectives	Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview Determine Goals and Objectives Performance Expectations, Constraints, and Risk Appetite Potential Stakeholders Concerns / Decision Criteria Critical knowledge: Performance expectations and the initial conception of the deficiency
Target Architecture	Interview & Document Review Determine Definition of Target Work packages & Gaps to Reach Target Completeness of the Target Domains Where change was not included Architecture & model maturity Critical knowledge: expectations of change and EA Team capability
Capacity to Execute	Interview Determine Project execution success Portfolio management maturity Critical knowledge: strength of implementation governance

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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.

Activity	Outcome
Workshop Preparation	The workshop requires good audio and information display. Very few meeting rooms are structured to provide quality audio, video, and collaboration. We will ship a meeting room set-up that supports good video and audio.
Interactive Workshop	Interactive workshop is divided into four blocks of time. Day 1-2: We develop a set of 3-5 scenarios. Day 3: We take your target apart into 2-3 candidates with 2-3 transitions and assess against the scenarios. We’ll end up with 1-2 candidate targets with 2-3 transitions. Day 4-5: We identify work packages that build out the roadmap. Day 5: We’ll build an outline readout.
Deliverables Preparation	Document the Scenario Flow Diagram Explanatory report Document the Architecture Roadmap Candidate Transition Stages Architecture Roadmap Type 3: Work Package Impact & Dependency Architecture Roadmap Type 4: Scenario Analysis across Multiple Candidates Document the critical decisions, transitions, and external Forces and Events
Deliverable Completion	Joint activity to document readout
Skill Development	Based on configuration choices

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Scenario-Based Architecture Roadmap 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
Problem Statement	Architecture problem statement, including: The 'Ask' What the EA Team will work on Enterprise context Directions Performance expectations, constraints, and risk appetite
Scenario	3-5 Plausible Futures Plausible futures at the end of a Force, Event, or Choice chain
Architecture Roadmap	1-2 Candidate Targets 2-3 Transitions Potential cross-link between Transition and Candidate
Critical Decision Model	Simplified decision tree to highlight Linkage between Scenarios and Candidates Decisions that must be made Implications of decision order
Engagement Plan	Alignment of scenario, transition and key decisions
EA Process Alignment	Alignment of key decisions and creation of supporting knowledge by EA team

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Next steps for Workshop

Scenario-Based Architecture Roadmap Workshop Configuration

Configuration Options:

Selection between two formats
- Preparation for engagement with stakeholders and decision-makers after workshop
- Interactive with stakeholder and decision makers during Day 1-3
Deliverable or skill development priority

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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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