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Architecting the Manufacturing Enterprise: Foundations

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One-day course

Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the skills and knowledge needed to successfully participate in Enterprise Architecture projects. The course will focus on concepts based on The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) as well as other related frameworks. The course has been tailored to focus on the needs of the manufacturing enterprise.
Audience
The course is intended for manufacturing engineers, analysts, program and project managers, IT managers, and domain specialists who will participate in enterprise architecture activities in the contemporary.
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course the attendee will be able to:

  • Describe fundamental concepts related to Enterprise Architecture
  • Describe the role of the Enterprise Architect
  • Describe the purpose of enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF
  • Explain the phases of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method
  • Describe the role Business Scenarios for conceptualizing an architecture vision
  • Describe techniques for modeling architectures with Building Blocks and Patterns
  • Define the TOGAF Requirements Management process
  • List several roles in the Enterprise Architecture program
  • Describe the skills and competencies needed for those roles
Course Outline
  1. Course Introduction
  2. Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture
  3. Architecture Reference Models
  4. TOGAF Architecture Development Method Overview
  5. The Architect's toolkit
  6. Business scenarios
  7. Patterns and architecture
  8. Requirements management
  9. Applying business scenarios
  10. Building better building blocks
  11. The Enterprise Architecture profession
  12. Course Summary

Note: this outline will be tailored for manufacturing organizations.