Duration
5 days
Overview
This course focuses on the other aspects of a solution, and on maximising the value for your company and enabling customers to reach their full business potential. Most organisations involved in digital transformation are focused on efforts around three core processes: idea-to-market, market-to-order, and order-to-cash. They are concerned with changes needed in people, processes, and technology.
To provide the greatest value, one must move beyond creating solutions to satisfy a number of requirements and instead advise customers on technology use for their processes, and how people and processes will be impacted and need to change as a result of the proposed solution.
The course focuses on:
- Architecture Thinking: Building a solid foundation and ensuring architects think like architects.
- Architecture Engagement: Understanding the role and how architects engage.
- Architecture Demand: Discovering ways to understand the demands of the business.
- Architecture Practice: How best to build the practice of architecture within your organisation.
- Architecture Supply: Fulfilling that demand and delivering the architecture.
Target Audience
- IASA's basic course is aimed at anyone who wants to become involved in architectural work.
- Basic knowledge and experience of system development.
- Developer, project manager, information model or process developer.
Assessment
75 multiple-choice & true/false questions in 2.5hours. The passing grade is 70%.
Prerequisite
Understanding of the Business Technology Architecture Body of Knowledge (BTABoK) is recommended.
Exam Information
- The CITA-F credential is awarded by achieving a 70%or higher on the CITA-F examination.
- The exam is deployed online via Iasa’s Learning Management System. If attending an onsite course, the exam is proctored on the last day. If attending an online course, access is given on the last day of the course as well.
Section 1 - Getting in Gear
- Define personal course objectives
- Define customer outcome goals
- Describe your customer
- Figure out who is going to enter the leaderboard challenge
Section 2 - Business and Customer
- Define a business model
- Understand your clients customer
- Define innovation in business
- Advise and lead using detailed knowledge of customer's customer
Section 3 - Capabilities and Value
- Describe your clients capabilities and how they impact services
- Think in terms of client value from capabilities to customers
- Describe an innovative business case
Section 4 - Roadmaps and Architecture
- Get involved in the organisations investment roadmap to make recommendations.
- Get buy off on new ideas as a trusted advisor
- Develop, track and communicate benefits realization and measurement
- Define and develop and architecture description with the client
Section 5 - Stories and Options
- Define and describe architecturally significant requirements
- Understand the current architecture landscape, evaluation of options and the development of a context and benefits realization view
- Describe and define the relationship between options, decisions and requirements
Section 6 - Structure and Assessment
- Describe an architecture using multiple viewpoints
- Facilitate a design thinking session and mentor the customer through more holistic design methods
- Use both formal and informal methods to analyse a peer and a customer architecture description.
Section 7 - Agile, Roles and Stakeholders
- Define an agile team structure which optimises a client engagement
- Define Stakeholders using multiple tools to better define a stakeholder management plan
- Define architecture team roles, the extended team impacts and related activities.
Section 8 - Deliverables and Engagement
- Describe an architecture teams deliverables for an end to end process
- Describe critical processes for the architecture team at an organisation
- Describe common elements of an engagement model
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.