The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition, is a proven, sustainable Enterprise Architecture framework that facilitates the delivery of effective business innovation. The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition defines a modular framework ideally suited to the support of strategic planning of an organizations’ assets and other key elements that are essential to enterprise architecture vendors and their tools.
- For businesses, the TOGAF® Standard,10th Edition empowers your organization with an adaptable framework that delivers practical, flexible and trusted governance.
- For Enterprise Architects, the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition provides an integrated, holistic view of an organizational landscape which enables strategic decision making by providing best practices for new business and technology trend adoption.
- For consultants, the TOGAF® Standard,10th Edition provides a modular, scalable framework that enables organizational transformation for different use cases and architecture styles.
This intensive course covers the entire syllabus for TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Foundation and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, thereby preparing candidates for the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Part 1 and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Part 2 examinations. This course will provide students with the knowledge and a basic understanding of Enterprise Architecture using the TOGAF® approach. This course will also provide students with validation of the knowledge and comprehension, including the ability to analyze and apply the TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition to developing, sustaining, and using an Enterprise Architecture. Students will obtain the ability to use, practice, and apply the TOGAF® approach generically.
Ideal for: This course is designed for those seeking to achieve the TOGAF® Certified certificate, which is an important and valuable qualification, demonstrating increasingly higher levels of competence.
Course & Certification Benefits
When you complete this course, you are entitled to receive a Certification of Completion upon request. This Certificate is not the same as the TOGAF® EA Level 1 and Level 2 Certifications. To achieve Certification, you must schedule, complete, and pass the Level 1 and Level 2 Certification Examinations.
Who should attend
- Application Architects
- Application Portfolio Managers
- Business Analysts
- Business Architects
- CIOs and CTOs
- Data Architects
- Enterprise Architects
- T. strategists, senior business analysts
- Information Architects
- Infrastructure Architects
- IT Architects
- Others responsible for change programs
- Program Managers
- Project Managers
- Security Architects and Technology Vendors
- Solution Architects
- System Integrators
- Technology Architects
Course Agenda
Introduction and TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Learning Path
Module 1: Introduction and Concepts
- Enterprise
- The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- The Benefits of Having an Enterprise Architecture
- A Framework for Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture Domains
- Architecture Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture
- The Enterprise Continuum
- The Architecture Repository
- The TOGAF® Content Framework and Enterprise Metamodel
- Architecture Capability
- Risk Management
- Gap Analysis
Module 2: Definitions
- TOGAF® Definitions that are examinable are covered throughout the course as part of other modules.
Module 3: Introduction to the ADM Phases
- 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
- Objectives: Phase A
- Purpose: Phases B, C, and D
- Objectives: Phase B
- Objectives: Phase C: Data Architecture and Application Architecture
- Objectives: Phase D
- Purpose: Phase E
- Objectives: Phase E
- Purpose: Phase F
- Objectives: Phase F
- Purpose: Phase G
- Objectives: Phase G
- Purpose: Phase H
- Objectives: Phase H
- Objectives: Requirements Management
- Purpose: Requirements Management
- Information Flow Between ADM Phases
- How Developing Architecture can be Applied to Support Agile Software Development
Module 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
Module 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
Module 6: Introduction to Architecture Governance
- Architecture Governance
- Why Architecture Governance is Beneficial
- The Role of an Architecture Board and its Responsibilities
- Architecture Contracts
- Architecture Compliance
Module 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
Module 8: The Context for Enterprise Architecture
- Guiding Effective Change: The Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
- What does an Enterprise Architecture look like?
- Architecture Capability
- Architecture Governance and the role of an Enterprise Architect
- Architecture Compliance, Levels of Conformance, Reviews, and the Role of the Architect
- How an Architecture enables alignment to Organizational Objectives using Agile development as an example
- The need to Manage Multiple Architecture States
- Enterprise Security Architecture
- Security, a Cross-Cutting Concern
- Managing Uncertainty in order to optimize Maximum Business Benefit and Minimum Business Loss
- The Enterprise Architect and Enterprise Architecture in a Digital Enterprise
Module 9: Stakeholder Management
- How to identify Stakeholders, their Concerns, Views, and the Communication involved
- The use of Architecture Views
- Stakeholder Engagement and Requirements Management
- Using Trade-off to Support Architecture development
Module 10: 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
Module 11: 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
Module 12: 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
- The Impact of Migration Projects on the Organization and the Coordination Required
- Why and how Business Value is assigned to each Work Package
- How to Prioritize the Migration Projects (Phase F)
- Confirm the Architecture Roadmap (Phase F)
- The 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
Module 13: Architecture Change Management
- Inputs triggering Change Management — Change Requests
- Activities necessary for effective Change Management (Stakeholder Management)
Outputs relevant to proceed with a Change
Module 14: Requirements Management
- The inputs that feed the Requirements Management Phase
- How the Requirements Management steps correspond to ADM Phase Steps
- The Purpose of the outputs of Requirements Management
Module 15: Supporting the ADM Work
- How The Open Group TOGAF® Library can be used to support the Practitioner’s Work
- Business Scenarios
- The 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 organize the Architecture Landscape
- Different Levels of Architecture that exist in an organization
- Determining the Level that an Architecture is being Developed at
- The 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 Catalog can be used
- The 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
