ArchiMate and BPMN for
Business Strategy
Course Description:
This course is ideal for business architects and analysts who are new to ArchiMate and BPMN. It covers the ArchiMate business layer plus motivation and strategy elements for capturing business architecture and strategy. It also includes BPMN for creating hierarchical business process models.
Prerequisites:
No prior ArchiMate experience is required.
A background in architecture helpful.
Equipment:
For on-site delivery the customer should provide a suitable training room with a screen or projector to connect to our trainer’s laptop and a whiteboard or flipchart. All delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect.
For webinar delivery delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect with an Internet connection (a headset can be helpful). If you wish to test your environment join a test WebEx meeting: www.webex.com/test-meeting.html
Course Style:
50% theory, 50% practical.
Each module is accompanied by targeted exercises to allow delegates to apply the theory and become confident with new concepts and notation.
Delegate Handouts:
Each delegate receives a folder containing all the course slides and comprehensive theory notes which form excellent reference material. Folders also contain exercises and suggested solutions. Following successful completion of the course each delegate receives a certificate.
Course Modules:
- Delegate background and objectives
- Timetable and course outline
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
- What is ArchiMate
- ArchiMate core layers and extensions
- Mapping to TOGAF
- Language structure
- Derived relationships
- Stakeholders, viewpoints and views
- Relationship with UML and BPMN
- ArchiMate as a toolkit
ArchiMate Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Business actors and roles
- Organisation viewpoint
- Business functions and data flows
- Business processes and events
- Business object model and relationships
- Business services
- Business process co-operation viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Business collaborations and interactions
- Business interfaces
- Representations
- Products and contracts
- Product viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Stakeholders and drivers
- Assessments and goals
- Stakeholder viewpoint
- Requirements, constraints and principles
- Goal realization viewpoint
- Requirements realization viewpoint
- Motivation viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Capabilities
- Capability map viewpoint
- Resources
- Resource map viewpoint
- Courses of action
- Strategy viewpoint
- Outcome realisation viewpoint
BPMN Teaching – 0.5 hour
- What is BPMN?
- Business process models
- 4 BPMN diagram types
BPMN Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Start and end events
- Activities and sequence flow
- Exclusive and parallel gateways for logic
- Intermediate events
- Message and timer events
- Data stores and data objects
- Tasks and sub-processes
- Allocate responsibility with pools and lanes
BPMN Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Conditional and default sequence flows
- Markers for activity behaviour and task types
- Event types
- Edge mounted events
- Transactions and compensation
- Inclusive and event gateway types
BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
- Black box pools
- Message flows between pools
- Initiating and responding message icons
BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
- Black box pools
- Conversations and links
BPMN Teaching – 0.25 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.25 hour
- Choreography tasks
- Initiating and responding message icons