Sample Lesson for TOGAF, the video
Enterprise Architecture Profession Overview
An enterprise architect helps their stakeholders make better decisions about change.
- An enterprise architect supports others decide
- An enterprise architect's value proposition is their ability to analyze
- An enterprise architect is a servant leader
- Enterprise architect is not a seniority award
Enterprise Architecture is a simplified description of the complex real-world. The simplification lets us understand enough so that we can embark on change with confidence.
We understand what must change to reach an outcome and how to change.
Developing enterprise architecture is performed through a consistent practice of exploring change against a set of stakeholder desires.
Going Further
Watch
- Review Agile EA Case Study
- True Life EA Webinar: Agile Enterprise COVID Case Study
- EA Profession ChalkTalk (below)
Read
- Practitioner's Guide
- Wicked Problems
Join
- Personal EA Kickstart
Support your development as a better Enterprise Architect
Course Materials
- TOGAF Course slides
- TOGAF Course Handout
Certification preparation
- Certification Prep Lesson 1
- Certification Prep Lesson 2
Where to get help
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Practical EA
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TOGAF Learning Objectives in this lesson
Lesson Summary
In this lesson, we cover what drives organizations to use Enterprise Architecture and our professional challenges.
- Why organizations use Enterprise Architecture
- Core confusions about the term & profession of Architecture
- Domains
- Distinction between Enterprise & Solution
- Architecture Styles
We orient the definition of an Enterprise around your work - the organizational boundary used to identify what an Enterprise Architecture and EA Capability cover.
TOGAF Certification Exam Note: See the Course Handout for the exam answers to the benefits of Enterprise Architecture
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Meet your instructor
Dave Hornford, Conexiam's Chief Instructor, delivers the TOGAF 9 Training Course.
We can't think of anyone better suited to explain the TOGAF Standard.
He uses TOGAF, he works to improve and explain the TOGAF standard, and builds high-functioning EA Teams for a living.
Dave led the effort to modularize TOGAF 9 as Chair of the Open Group Architecture Forum.
His Conexiam consulting team sustains Conexiam Navigate content framework and Predictable EA enterprise architecture delivery method.
Dave and his Conexiam partners collaborated on the fundamental guidance for putting TOGAF to work - the TOGAF Series Leader's Guide and TOGAF Series Practitioner's Guide. Then there is the SOA Practical Guide, the TOGAF/ SABSA Integration Guide, the Security Guide.
Want to architect a Digital Transformation - Dave & Sri wrote Seven Levers of Digital Transformation.
If you want to see him in action - look at the TOGAF 9 Training Course sample, the TOGAF case study, watch the EA-support Agile Enterprise response to COVID.
He spends most of his time developing high-functioning enterprise architecture teams. We can't think of anyone better suited to explain the TOGAF Standard.
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Practical Exercises
- Exercise 1: EA Capability
Frame the Purpose of the EA Team - Exercise 2: Motivation
Understand the Corporate & Divisional motivations - Exercise 3: Principles
Evaluate the Architecture Principles - Exercise 4: Stakeholders
Understand Key Stakeholders - Exercise 5: Business Architecture
Understand Capabilities - Exercise 6: Information System Architecture
Understand Information Systems - Exercise 7: Viewpoints
Effective communication with Stakeholders - Exercise 8 primary: Security Architecture
Understand development of Security Architecture & the SABSA Business Attributes Profile - Exercise 8 optional: Technology Architecture
Understand the Technology Services required - Exercise 9: Describe the Target Architecture
Describe a Target
Use Architecture Model, Gap & Work Package - Exercise 10: Architecture Roadmap
Describe a Roadmap that realizes the Target, perform trade-off against different priorities, and understand Capability-based planning - Case-Study
The organization we are architecting.
The case study is based on a Conexiam predictable EA consulting engagement. It demonstrates practical use of the TOGAF Body of Knowledge and TOGAF as a framework.
At no point in TOGAF Certification are you expected to demonstrate using TOGAF. Frankly, if certification is your only goal skip the Case Study Exercises.