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.