TOGAF® Training | TOGAF® Foundation And Practitioner Training in Virtual

TOGAF® Foundation and Practitioner Training Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction and Concepts

• Enterprise
• Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
• Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture
• Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Domains
• Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Continuum
• Architecture Repository
• The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
• Architecture Capability for Enterprise Architecture
• Risk Management
• Gap Analysis

Unit 2: Definitions

• Various Definition
• Understand Relevant Terminology

Unit 3: Introduction to the ADM Phases

• The TOGAF® ADM and its Phases
• “Draft” and “Approved” Deliverables
• Iteration and the ADM
• Governing the Creation, Development, and Maintenance of Enterprise Architecture
• How to Scope an Architecture?
• Architecture Alternatives, Concerns, and Trade-Off
• Purposes
• Objectives
• Information Flow Between ADM Phases
• How Developing Architecture can be Applied to Support Agile Software Development

Unit 4: Introduction to ADM Techniques

• How the ADM and Supporting Guidelines and Techniques Relate to Each Other?
• Purpose: Architecture Principles
• Template for Architecture Principles
• What Makes a Good Architecture Principle?
• Business Scenarios
• The Purpose of Gap Analysis
• Interoperability
• Business Transformation Readiness Assessment
• Risk Management and the TOGAF® ADM

Unit 5: Introduction to Applying the ADM

• How to Apply the TOGAF® Standard?
• Iteration and the ADM
• The Three Levels of the Architecture Landscape
• Partitioning to Simplify the Development of an Enterprise Architecture
• Purpose-Based Architecture Projects
• Applying the TOGAF® Standard to Support the Digital Enterprise

Unit 6: Introduction to Architecture Governance

• Architecture Governance
• Why Architecture Governance is Beneficial?
• Role of an Architecture Board and its Responsibilities
• Architecture Contracts
• Architecture Compliance

Unit 7: Architecture Content

• Key Concepts: Stakeholders, Concerns, Architecture Views, Architecture Viewpoints, and their Relationships
• Building Blocks and the ADM
• The TOGAF® Standard Deliverables Created and Consumed in the TOGAF® ADM Phases

Unit 8: Concepts

• Enterprise
• The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
• The Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture
• A Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Domains
• Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
• The Enterprise Continuum
• The Architecture Repository
• The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
• A Architecture Capability for Enterprise Architecture
• Risk Management
• Gap Analysis

Unit 9: Stakeholder Management

• How to Identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication involved?
• The Use of Architecture Views
• Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management
• Using Trade-off to Support Architecture Development

Unit 10: Phase A, the Starting Point

• Information Necessary to Execute the Architecture Vision Phase
• How to Apply Phase A and how it Contributes to Architecture Development Work?
• Security-Specific Architecture Design that is Sufficient — Phase A
• Outputs Necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Development

Unit 11: Architecture Development

• Steps Applicable to all ADM Phases
• Risk and Security Considerations during the Architecture Development (ADM Phases B to D)
• Relevant Information to Produce Outputs Valuable to the Architecture Development
• How to apply Phases B, C, and D, and how they Contribute to the Architecture Development Work
• Information Relevant to Phase C (Data and Applications) to Produce Outputs for the Architecture Development
• Information Needed in Phase D to Produce Outputs relevant to the Architecture Development
• Outputs of Phases B, C, and D Necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Development Work

Unit 12: Implementing the Architecture

• Risk and Security Considerations for Phases E, F, and G
• Steps (Phase E) to Create the Implementation and Migration Strategy
• Basic Approaches to Implementation
• Identifying and Grouping Work Packages
• Creating and Documenting Transition Architectures
• The Impact of Migration Projects on the Organisation and the Coordination Required
• Why and how Business Value is Assigned to each Work Package
• How to Prioritise the Migration Projects (Phase F)
• Confirm the Architecture Roadmap (Phase F)
• The outputs of Phase F necessary to Proceed with the Architecture Implementation
• Inputs to Phase G Implementation Governance
• How Implementation Governance is Executed (Phase G)
• Outputs to support Architecture Governance
• How Architecture Contracts are used to communicate with Implementers?

Unit 13: Architecture Change Management

• Inputs Triggering Change Management — Change Requests
• Activities necessary for Effective Change Management (Stakeholder Management)
• Outputs Relevant to Proceed with a Change

Unit 14: Requirements Management

• Inputs that Feed the Requirements Management Phase
• How the Requirements Management steps correspond to ADM Phase Steps?
• Purpose of the Outputs of Requirements Management

Unit 15: Supporting the ADM Work

• How The Open Group TOGAF® Library can be used to support the Practitioner’s Work?
• Business Scenarios
• Purpose of Compliance Assessments
• How Migration Planning Techniques are used to Review and Consolidate the Gap Analysis Results from Earlier Phases?
• How a Repository can be Structured using the TOGAF® Architecture Repository as an example?
• What to expect in a well-run Architecture Repository?
• How the concepts of Architecture Levels are used to Organise the Architecture Landscape?
• Different Levels of Architecture that Exist in an Organisation
• Determining the Level that an Architecture is being Developed at
• The Role of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
• Guidelines and Techniques for Business Architecture
• Applying Gap Analysis
• How Iteration can be used in Architecture Practices?
• How the Implementation Factor Catalogue can be used?
• The Content Framework and the Enterprise Metamodel
• When the Architecture Content Framework (ACF) needs to be filled throughout the ADM Cycles
• Using an Enterprise Metamodel
• Using a Taxonomy
• How Risk Assessment can be used?

Our TOGAF® Foundation and Practitioner course is accredited by The Open Group.