Enterprise Architecture (EA) Development and Strategic
Planning
Training
Adrian Grigoriu
Curriculum
1st Day:
 Goal and Scope of this
 Enterprise state, problem and drivers for change
 Enterprise Architecture (EA), the solution to the Enterprise problems
 Enterprise Architecture Benefits
 The EA Key Benefits Indicators table
 The Enterprise Architecture Business Case (NPV, Payback…)
 EA frameworks overview and critique
 History and overview
 Zachman framework
 FEA and TOGAF
 DoDAF
 Other EA frameworks
 EA framework types
 The EA frameworks classification
 Enterprise Architecture related technologies and issues
 WS, SOA, ERPs…
 Business Process Management, BPEL, BPMN, B2B
 6 Sigma, Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
 ITIL, COBIT, Val IT
 Compliance issues
 Balanced Scorecard
 Agile Processes, AP

2nd Day
 Specification of the EA development framework
 The Enterprise Architecture anatomy and components
 The Enterprise context, stakeholders and Use Cases
 Enterprise Business Functions
 Enterprise Business Flows
 The Enterprise layers
 The logic/functional architecture
 The EA GODS: Governance, Operations, Development and
Support
 The Technology Architecture (IT Applications and
Infrastructure)
 The People and organization architecture
 Stakeholders' Views (Location, Planning, Finance,
Performance…)
 The Information Architecture View
 Architecture principles and technology platforms guidelines
 Enterprise Reference Maps
 Enterprise Value Chains
 Business and Operating models
 EA Business Reference Map/Template
 EA Applications Reference Map/Template
 EA Infrastructure Reference Map/Template
 EA patterns
 The Single Page Enterprise Architecture
 The EA framework
 The FFLV framework three dimensions
 The EA decomposition tree
 The EA navigation cube

 The EA key views of the basic EA framework
 The basic EA navigation
 The EA framework metamodel

3rd Day
 FFLV mapping to Zachman, TOGAF and DODAF
 Enterprise wide IT architecture
 The Role of IT
 IT obsolescence
 Business drivers and requirements from IT
 Typical IT developments
 Applications and Infrastructure inventories
 Applications Interconnections table
 SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
 SOA, what is it? WOA.
 SOA design best practices
 EA versus SOA and WS
 SOA versus ERP, SaaS
 SOA benefits
 SOA lessons learnt
 Strategic Planning and EA alignment to Business Strategy
 Environment Analysis: Porter’s Five Forces, PESTEL Analysis
 Company analysis
 Stakeholders’ needs, Financial analysis, Process
improvements
 Strategies specification
 Strategy balancing against stakeholders
 Assess strategies for suitability, acceptability criteria
 Strategy mapping to the EA tree and execution
 Best Practices of the EA implementation process
 Discover As-IS at all layers
 Map strategy and specify To-Be Enterprise State

 Assess gaps and roadmap the Enterprise Transformation
 Execute transformation and re-iterate

4th Day
 An EA development exercise (practical exercise): your EA
 Capture Enterprise Mission, Business Strategy and Objectives
 Outline Enterprise Products, Stakeholders and Use Cases
 …
 How to use the EA framework for outsourcing, M&A …
 EA governance, program and site taxonomy
 EA triggers and roadblocks
 EA maturity and sell
 EA compliance
 EA tools
 EA politics and the Enterprise culture
5th Day
 The Role of the Enterprise Architect
 Current kinds of EAs
 EA Architect selection
 EA architect leadership
 EA architect tasks
 The EA current state
 The EA future outlook
 The Virtual Enterprise
 EA layers virtualization
 Enterprise outsourcing
 The Cloud Enterprise
 Recap: Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Planning
 Why EA and why choose this FFLV framework

 EA: To Be or Not To BE