Building a Business Architecture Baseline Leveraging Reference Models Establishing a business architecture baseline, which includes a robust set of capability, information, organization, value stream, and related mappings, is challenging and time consuming. The availability of industry reference models offers organizations the ability to expedite the time it takes to deploy a high-quality, business architecture baseline.…

Establishing a Business Architecture Knowledgebase – Many organizations have had difficulty deploying a business architecture knowledgebase, dramatically limiting their ability to maturing and scaling the discipline and maximize overall value. One major constraint involves having a business architecture scattered across various desktop tools, which can draw more and more resources to make all of the…

Leveraging Business Architecture with Agile Methodologies – Mar 9 The introduction of SAFe and other agile methodologies raised new questions about how business architecture fits and its relevance. Business architecture has never been more critical and it is in fact the gateway to organizational agility. This course articulates specific ways in which business architecture provides…

Establishing a Business Architecture Team One of the most frequently asked questions from business architecture teams is how to get started. Whether you are just starting an internal business architecture team within your organization or well into the journey, this course covers key aspects that will help successfully position, socialize, and mature your practice. The…

Business Architecture-Driven IT Architecture and Software Design Over the years, solution architects, data architects, software designers, and developers have sought abstractions of the business that represent an organization and its needs as important inputs to IT architecture and software design work. In practice, however, business abstractions are often siloed, redundant, and inconsistently defined, which leads…