Putting the Enterprise Architecture into Practice using Sparx EA

Essential concepts of Sparx EA for implementing an Enterprise Architecture

• Role of Sparx EA in implementing Enterprise Architecture Frameworks,
• Transforming the Business Model into an Operating Model,
• The Repository of the Sparx EA and its evolution on the basis of the EA Development phases,
• Putting in place the Architecture Capability Framework for Architecture Governance,
• Traceability from Drivers, Goals, Strategies, Principles till Capabilities and Requirements using EA,
• Case Study: Presentation of the Case Study – an enterprise transformation issue (current state, target state). High-Level organization of the enterprise architecture,

Business Transformation : From Drivers, Goals and Objectives to the Architecture Vision

• Re-formulating the enterprise strategy and its activity domains,
• Assigning new responsibilities to existing capabilities,
• Horizontal and vertical impact analysis to ensure coherent deployment of the Target Architecture,
• Managing the performance level of target capabilities,
• A tentative impact analysis to elaborate business functions of the target architecture using UML,
• The business architecture, its meta-model and viewpoints using Sparx EA,
• Risk factors and Mitigation Actions upon business functions,
• Exercise on the Case Study

Structuring Capabilities to mitigate risks and analyze Impacts throughout Architecture Layers

• The application & technology architecture their meta-model and viewpoints using Sparx EA,
• Structure Capabilities to track risk mitigation by function, adapt them to changing goals,
• Align the SOA backbone of the Target Architecture with emerging business functions, underlying services and SLAs,
• Adapting underlying Business Process Models to strategic changes,
• Impact Analysis of changing capabilities until the technology layer,
• Exercise on the Case Study

Modeling the Roadmap, Transition Architectures to Coordinate Implementation Projects

• Identify building blocks of the potential architecture roadmap :
• Capability Increments for the Architecture Roadmap,
• Work Packages of Actions to implement capability increments and dependencies,
• Management of projects portfolio for assessing business values of the projects on the basis of risks,
• ‘Coordinating’ Implementation Projects using RoadMap Modeling,
• Exercise on the Case Study :

Plugging Solution Building Blocks into Capability Based SOA Backbone

• From the Functional Architecture to Service Oriented Architecture,
• Architecture and solution building blocks,
• Information flows between services,
• Constraints upon service components of the technical architecture,
• Determining expected behaviors from Solution Building Blocks,
• Plugging Solution Building Blocks into the Capability Based SOA Backbone,
• Exercise on the Case Study

Conclusion

• Recap on the steps of the Architecture Development Process using Sparx EA : a panorama of artifacts
• Best Practices for efficient specification of Deliverables and Artifacts using Sparx EA