Introduction
- Definition of an Agile Enterprise and its Enterprise Architecture
- Comparison of the enterprise architecture’s purposes of Zachman, US FEAF /CISR
Elements of the Business Architecture for an Agile Enterprise
- Business Architecture : the missing link between business strategy and enterprise architecture
- Connections between the Business Architecture, BPM and SOA
- Business Motivation Model (BMM) vs Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) and other Business Models,
- The core structures and relationships in the Business Motivation Model (SWOT analysis, business vision, goals, objectives, missions, strategies, tactics, …) toward business processes
- Guiding the Operating Enterprise using Balanced Score Cards,
- The Business Architecture Views of the OMG : From the Strategy View to the Organizational View throughout Business Capabilities and Processes
- Process Modeling : Essential elements, best practices
- Process Modeling with BPMN adapted to the language of business owners and analysts : Basics, Process, Sub-process, Activity, Task, Pool, Lane, Detailed Events and Gateway typology, Synchronization, Connectors, Message Flows, Compensations, Good practices
- Overview on the Process Modeling, Execution and Monitoring tools
- Using BPMN and UML to model Business Processes and Business Objects (Resources)
- Case Study : Refinement of Goals from the Business Vision toward Business Processes and Resources
Gaining Agility with Business Process using BPMN and UML 2
- How to model business processes to render the underlying IT system more reactive to changes?
- BPMN, UML and SoaML to support changes on the business process and business object models
- Updating Target Architecture business models by changing strategies capitalizing on Business Capabilities
- Case Study : Elaborating an agile process and resource model easy to maintain in face of changes
Adapting “business models” to changes of the business requirements
- Modeling changes on goals, strategies, tactics and business rules
- How to adapt processes and resources in coherence to such evolutions ?
- Case Study : Adapting business processes and resources to changing business requirements and rules
Conclusion
- Steps of an efficient Agile Process and Resource Modeling
- Frameworks for tracing business requirements from the Business Motivation Model elements toward IT structures in order to better govern them in face of change.