Learn how to provide business value to your agency, meet associated needs and address current "Federal Enterprise Architecture Program EA Assessment Framework" requirements for "getting to green" relative to "completion, use and results."
Who Should Attend?
Those interested in learning about enterprise architecture and who want to explore an approach to enterprise architecture that directly addresses the business of their organization. This audience includes: aspiring and existing enterprise, solutions and technical architects; CPIC coordinators; program/project managers; and IT, program, planning and budget specialists.
The role of standards development and configuration management in EA implementations
How to link your agency's "as-is" and "to-be" architectures to FEA reference models
How to develop a transition and sequencing plan for migrating from the current to the "to-be" state
Assessment techniques used to identify gaps between your baseline and targeted architecture
Techniques and approaches for developing your agency's "to-be" architecture
Techniques and approaches for documenting your agency's "as-is" architecture
How to develop an architecture structured to your agency's mission, organization and culture
Considerations in selecting a particular tool and an approach for modeling your agency's EA
The importance of an EA tool in the development and maintenance of an agency EA
How to effectively leverage CPIC to "achieve results"
Techniques for developing business-oriented, data-oriented and service-oriented architectural models
By using cases that analyze where service-oriented architectures can be effectively leveraged to facilitate data sharing and interoperability between systems
Develop an EA governance process that viably addresses your agency's mission and business requirements and results in the "completion" and "use" of your EA with documented "results" to improve your agency's effectiveness
Choose an EA approach that best addresses your agency's desired strategic outcome
Select and implement an architectural framework and tool for documenting your agency's EA
Effectively work your agency in developing an agency's targeted enterprise architecture and associated transition and sequencing plan
Create and implement an EA strategy that effectively addresses current "Federal Enterprise Architecture Program EA Assessment Framework" requirements
Develop a "to-be" architecture by: (1) assessing the effectiveness of your agency's "as-is" architecture vis-a-vis its mission and strategic objectives; (2) identifying duplication in services and the collection of data; (3) inventorying best practices; and (4) surveying emerging technologies and markets
Reconcile a sub-entity's EA to an agency-level and/or federal EA
Leverage techniques to facilitate effective communication and use of your EA
