ArchiMate for Business Architecture

Course Description:

This course is aimed at business architects who are new to ArchiMate. It covers the ArchiMate business layer for modelling business organisation, processes and products, the motivation extension for identifying stakeholders, drivers, goals and requirements as well as strategy elements which focus on capabilities.

ArchiMate

Duration:

1.5 days

Prerequisites:

No prior ArchiMate experience is required.
A background in business architecture is helpful.

Equipment:

Webinar

For on-site delivery the customer should provide a suitable training room with a screen or projector to connect to our trainer’s laptop and a whiteboard or flipchart. All delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect.

For webinar delivery delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect with an Internet connection (a headset can be helpful). If you wish to test your environment join a test WebEx meeting: www.webex.com/test-meeting.html

Course Style:

50% theory, 50% practical.
Each module is accompanied by targeted exercises to allow delegates to apply the theory and become confident with new concepts and notation.

Delegate Handouts:

Each delegate receives a folder containing all the course slides and comprehensive theory notes which form excellent reference material. Folders also contain exercises and suggested solutions. Following successful completion of the course each delegate receives a certificate.

Course Modules:

  • Delegate background and objectives
  • Timetable and course outline

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

  • What is ArchiMate
  • ArchiMate core layers and extensions
  • Mapping to TOGAF
  • Language structure
  • Derived relationships
  • Stakeholders, viewpoints and views
  • Relationship with UML and BPMN
  • ArchiMate as a toolkit

ArchiMate Teaching – 1 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Business actors and roles
  • Organisation viewpoint
  • Business functions and data flows
  • Business processes and events
  • Business object model and relationships
  • Business services
  • Business process co-operation viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Business collaborations and interactions
  • Business interfaces
  • Representations
  • Products and contracts
  • Product viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 1 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Stakeholders and drivers
  • Assessments and goals
  • Stakeholder viewpoint
  • Requirements, constraints and principles
  • Goal realization viewpoint
  • Requirements realization viewpoint
  • Motivation viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Capabilities
  • Capability map viewpoint
  • Resources
  • Resource map viewpoint
  • Courses of action
  • Strategy viewpoint
  • Outcome realisation viewpoint