ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture

Course Description:

This course is for business, application, infrastructure and solution architects who are new to ArchiMate. It covers the ArchiMate business, application and technology layers and gives delegates experience of creating standard ArchiMate viewpoint diagrams.

ArchiMate

Duration:

2 days

Prerequisites:

No prior ArchiMate experience is required.
A background in 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:

45% theory, 55% 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 – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Application components
  • Application functions
  • Data object model and relationships
  • Application services
  • Application usage viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Application component structure
  • Application collaborations and interactions
  • Application interfaces
  • Application co-operation viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Nodes, devices and system software
  • Paths and communication networks
  • Locations
  • Technology viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 1 hour

  • Technology functions, services and interfaces
  • Technology usage viewpoint
  • Artifacts
  • Implementation and deployment viewpoint

ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour

Paper Exercises – 0.5 hour

  • Organise elements with groupings
  • Information structure viewpoint
  • Layered viewpoint