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Module 1: Welcome to Principles of Enterprise Architecture
- Building facilities and breaks
- Activity: Discussing students' backgrounds and expectations for the course
Skills
- Familiarize themselves with course materials.
- Properly set their expectations for the course.
- Familiarize themselves with available facilities and course logistics.
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Module 2: MSF Overview
- Information Technology (IT) challenges
- Root causes of IT project failures
- High-level overview of the MSF team model
- High-level overview of the MSF process model.
Skills
- Understand what MSF is and how MSF addresses the root causes of IT project failure.
- Describe the MSF team model.
- Describe the MSF process model.
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Module 3: Risk Management
- Risk fundamentals
- Risk management overview
- Risk identification and analysis
- Risk planning
- Risk tracking and control
- Activity: Understanding risk
- Activity: Identifying, analyzing risks
- Activity: Creating risk plans
Skills
- Understand risk and why managing it is important.
- Understand the MSF risk management process.
- Understand the differences between risk mitigation and risk contingency.
- Demonstrate the ability to assess risks.
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Module 4: Enterprise Architecture Overview
- The IT landscape
- Defining an enterprise architecture
- IT diagnostic areas
- Enterprise architecture tools
- Relating enterprise architecture to the digital nervous system
- Activity: Designing for the Abyss
- Activity: Determining the need for an enterprise architecture
- Activity: Tools discussion
Skills
- Explain the IT landscape.
- Define MSF enterprise architecture.
- Describe typical barriers and problems of an enterprise architecture.
- Describe the benefits of an enterprise architecture.
- Discuss tool options.
- Relate the Microsoft digital nervous system, Windows Distributed interNet Applications (WinDNA) projects, and enterprise architecture to MSF.
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Module 5: The MSF Enterprise Architecture Process
- Enterprise architecture perspectives
- The MSF enterprise architecture process
- Enterprise architecture best practices
- Enterprise architecture experience
Skills
- Describe the four architectural perspectives that make up an enterprise architecture.
- Explain the MSF enterprise architecture process.
- Describe enterprise architecture best practices.
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Module 6: The Envisioning Phase
- Aligning IT with business
- Interim milestones and deliverables
- Team focus during envisioning
- Activity: Identifying envisioning risks
- Lab: SWOT, critical success factors and risks
- Lab: Writing a vision document
Skills
- Create an enterprise architecture vision document.
- Understand how the business environment scopes the enterprise architecture effort.
- Describe an organization's business goals and objectives.
- Relate critical success factors to business goals and objectives.
- Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis.
- Identify risks to an enterprise architecture.
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Module 7: The Planning Phase
- Business processes
- IT Inventory
- Desired architecture
- Enterprise architecture plan
- Activity: Identifying planning risks
- Lab: Identifying key business processes
- Lab: The current state assessment
- Lab: Initial candidate project list
Skills
- Describe the pieces of the current architecture.
- Explain the importance of examining and describing business processes.
- Explain the importance of understanding and documenting the IT inventory.
- Detail the parts of desired enterprise architecture and explain how to develop one.
- Explain the importance of an enterprise architecture project plan and understand how to develop one.
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Module 8: The Developing Phase
- Project initiation
- Project team preparation
- Multiple project coordinatio
- Activity: Identifying developing risks
- Activity: Team responsibilities
Skills
- Initiate projects.
- Prepare individual project teams.
- Coordinate multiple projects.
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Module 9: The Stabilizing Phase
- Feedback collection
- Project issues resolution
- Enterprise architecture enhancement
- Next version preparation
- Activity: Identifying stabilizing risks
Skills
- Collect feedback on the enterprise architecture and individual projects.
- Resolve project issues.
- Enhance the enterprise architecture and the associated processes.
- Prepare for the next version of the enterprise architecture.
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Module 10: Summary
- Student review of the course
- Activity: Course Summary
Skills
- Review the major learning points for the course.
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Exams:
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There are no exams directly associated with this course
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Price Options ex VAT:
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Distance Learning
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eLearning Options
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Book Learning
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£
790
(€1122)
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£
449.00
(€638)
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No Books Supported for Course at present
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