ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture
Course Description:
This course is for business, application, infrastructure and solution architects who are new to ArchiMate. It covers the ArchiMate business, application and technology layers and gives delegates experience of creating standard ArchiMate viewpoint diagrams.
Prerequisites:
No prior ArchiMate experience is required.
A background in architecture is 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:
45% theory, 55% 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 – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Application components
- Application functions
- Data object model and relationships
- Application services
- Application usage viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Application component structure
- Application collaborations and interactions
- Application interfaces
- Application co-operation viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Nodes, devices and system software
- Paths and communication networks
- Locations
- Technology viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
- Technology functions, services and interfaces
- Technology usage viewpoint
- Artifacts
- Implementation and deployment viewpoint
ArchiMate Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Organise elements with groupings
- Information structure viewpoint
- Layered viewpoint