TOGAF® Advanced Applied Architecture 2022

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 the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, thereby preparing candidates for the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Part 2 examination. This course will 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.

Prerequisite:

TOGAF® Foundation Architecture 2022

Course Outline

Introduction and TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Learning Path

 Module 1: 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 2: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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

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 Practitioner Certifications. To achieve certification, you must schedule, complete, and pass the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 2 Certification Exam.