TOGAF® Training - Mozambique

TOGAF® Foundation and Practitioner - Foundation 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
• 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

• 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

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

TOGAF® Foundation and Practitioner - Practitioner Training Course Outline

Unit 1 – 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 – Stakeholder Management

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

Unit 3 – 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 4 – 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 5 – 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
• 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)
• 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 6 – 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 7 – Requirements Management

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

Unit 8 – 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
• 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?
• 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 - Practitioner course is accredited by The Open Group.

TOGAF® Essentials Course Outline

This TOGAF® Essentials training course will explore the following units:

Module 1:  Structure of the TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2

• TOGAF® Body of Knowledge in 2011
• TOGAF® Evolution – The Strategic Target
• Role of Version 9.2
• Why is the TOGAF® Standard Successful?
• TOGAF® Ecosystem
• TOGAF® Body of Knowledge in 2018
• Architecture Styles
• Document Categories in the TOGAF® Library
• TOGAF® Library – Two Versions, Two Objectives
• Finding the Public TOGAF® Library
• TOGAF® Library– Overview and Structure
• Structure of the TOGAF® Library – Two Dimensions
• Using the Enterprise Continuum to Categorise Architecture "Styles"
• Tightness of Coupling to the TOGAF® Standard
• Business Scenarios
• Value Streams
• Business Capabilities
• Integrating Risk and Security within a TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture
• Using the TOGAF® Framework to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architecture
• TOGAF® Leaders Guide to Establishing and Evolving an EA Capability
• Practitioner's Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF® ADM
• TOGAF® Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model
• TOGAF® Technical Reference Model
• TOGAF® Body of Knowledge and Certification
• TOGAF® 9 Certification Body of Knowledge

Module 2: Business Architecture

• Clarification of Terminology
• Business Architecture Context
• Phase A: Architecture Vision Steps
• Phase B: Business Architecture Approach
• Phase B: Applying Business Capabilities​
• Phase B: Applying Value Streams​
• Phase B: Applying the Organisation Map​
• New Business Architecture Artifacts
• Business Architecture
• Definition of Actor
• Business Architecture, Capability, and Model
• Course of Action
• Organisation Map
• Value Stream

Module 3: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 Standard

• Relationship Between the TOGAF® Version 9.2 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011
• Basic Architecture Concepts
• Artefacts
• Architecture
• Stakeholder
• Concern
• Model Kind
• Architecture Viewpoint
• Architecture View
• Architecture Model

Module 4: TOGAF® Content Framework and Metamodel

• General Entities
• Business and IT Architecture
• Changes to the Content Metamodel
• Revised Core and Full Content Metamodel
• Changes to Other Content Framework and Metamodel Diagrams
• Detailed Representation of the Content Metamodel
• Content Metamodel with Extensions
• Artefacts Associated with the Core Content Metamodel and Extensions

Module 5: Security Architecture

• Definition of Risk
• Enterprise Security Architecture
• Security is a Cross-Cutting Concern
• Adapting the ADM for Security

Module 6: Other Significant Changes

• Overview
• Strategy and Implementation Plan for Tools and Techniques
• Objectives – Phase B
• Objectives – Phase C
• Objectives – Phase D
• Objectives – Phase E
• Layout of ADM Phase Chapters
• Information Systems Architecture
• Architecture Repository

Module 7: Definitions of Terms

• Application Component
• Information System Service
• Service Portfolio
• Technology Component
• Technology Service
• Viewpoint Library
• Terms with Revised Definitions
• Architecture Development Method
• Architecture Domain
• Architecture Framework
• Architecture Governance
• Architecture Style
• Boundaryless Information Flow™
• Building Block
• Technology Architecture
• Service Orientation
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Definitions of Terms Deleted

Module 8: TOGAF® Credentials Program

• What is a Credential Badge?
• Vision
• Principles
• Incremental Rollout
• Potential Components of the Program
• Knowledge-Based Credential Assessments

TOGAF® BA Foundation Training Course Outline

Unit 1 – Introduction and Concepts

• Enterprise
• Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
• Business Benefits of having an Enterprise Architecture
• Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Domains
• ADM Phases
• Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Principles
• Enterprise Continuum
• Architecture Repository
• The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
• Architecture Capability
• Using the TOGAF® Standard with other Frameworks
• Risk Management
• Gap Analysis

Unit 2 – Definitions

• Various Definitions
• Understand Relevant Terminology

Unit 3 – Introduction to the ADM

• 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
• Purpose: Preliminary Phase
• Objectives: Preliminary Phase
• Purpose: Phase A
• How Iteration within the ADM Enables Concurrent Operation of Multiple ADM Phases?
• Purpose: Phases B

Unit 4 – Business Modeling

• Definition of Business Model
• Use-Case: Retail Business

Unit 5 – Business Capabilities

• Business Capability
• Defining a Business Capability
• Components of a Business Capability
• Business Capability Template
• Business Capability Map
• Capability Mapping
• Structuring the Business Capability Map
• Level One Capability Stratification
• Levelling
• Mapping Capabilities to Other Business Perspectives
• Heat Mapping
• Interpreting a Heat Map
• Relationship Mapping

Unit 6 – Value Streams

• Concept of Value
• Approaches to Value Analysis
• Value Chain
• Value Network
• Lean Value Stream
• What is a Value Stream?
• Using Value Streams in Business Architecture
• Key Principle of Value Streams
• Benefits of Value Streams and Value Stream Mapping
• Defining a Value Stream
• Decomposing a Value Stream
• Which should come First? Value Stream Map or Business Capability Model?
• Creating Value Streams: Guiding Principles

Unit 7 – Information Mapping

• Role of Information and Information Concepts
• What is Information Mapping?
• Information Map
• Benefits of Information Mapping
• Relationships of Information Maps to Business Architecture Concepts
• Business Capabilities and Information Concepts
• Relationship of Information Maps to Data Models
• Using Information Maps with the TOGAF® ADM
• Putting Information Maps into Practice

Unit 8 —Organisation Mapping

• What is Organisation Mapping?
• What is an Organisation Map?
• Organisation Unit Types and Levels
• Organisation Charts Vs Organisation Maps
• Differences in Terms of Purpose
• Impacts and Benefits of Organisation Mapping
• Relationship to Other Domains
• How Organisation Maps can be used with the TOGAF® ADM?

Unit 9 — Business Scenarios

• What is a TOGAF® Business Scenario?
• Business Scenario Workshops
• What does a TOGAF® Business Scenario Describe?
• TOGAF® Business Scenarios and the ADM
• Developing and Validating a TOGAF® Business Scenario
• Five Elements of a Business Scenario
• Steps of Each Phase
• Development Phases of a Business Scenario
• Phases of a Business Scenario

Unit 10 – Applying Business Architecture Techniques within the TOGAF® ADM

• Phase A: Architecture Vision
• Business Objectives and Process
• Business Modeling
• Organisation Maps
• Business Scenarios
• Phase B: Business Architecture
• Scoping the Work in Phase B
• Developing the Baseline Description
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Business Capabilities
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Value Streams
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Organisation Map
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Information Map
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Business Modeling
• Applying Business Architecture Concepts in Phase B: Architecture Repository

Our TOGAF® BA course is accredited by The Open Group