I had an idea of what business architecture is. The class solidified my thinking and taught
me that business architecture cannot be just a set of diagrams, models and
maps. If it does not assist in identifying
problems and opportunities, support management decision making and identifying
business capability gaps then it is not adding value to the enterprise. Business Architecture will have multiple
views of the same areas of the business to aide all stakeholders in
understanding the business, its culture and its capabilities. It outlined some popular architectural frameworks,
such as Zachman Framework, TOGAF and ACORD.
The class compared the business architect to an urban planner instead of
a building architect. Whereas a building
architect is focused on one building, the urban planner is concerned with the
whole city or geographic location and the quality of life of its residents. It
referenced many sources of knowledge, including A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK™ Guide)
from the Business Architecture Guild and A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) from
International Institute of Business Analysis.
Gina has been an instructor and course developer with ASPE
for about 10 years, along with running her own consulting business. She has always tried to balance training and
consulting engagements to stay active in the areas that she teaches. She teaches in the areas of business
analysis, general management, project management and agile. She got associated with ASPE Training some
ten years ago by some training associates who developed business analysis
training material for ASPE. When they
needed instructors to teach these courses they thought of Gina because of her
talents. She signed on and hasn’t looked
back since. She figures she has taught
more than a hundred classes for ASPE as well as several presented webinars. Whereas this Enterprise Business Architecture
course is fairly new, she has taught variations of it a few times for ASPE
Training. One course she has helped develop, and is very proud of, for ASPE is
the Business Analysis Masterclass Series.
It is a series of twenty 3-hour courses that touch on many skills and
techniques of business analysis. Gina
lives in Michigan with her husband, who she says comes from a large family; so
family game night was a regular occurrence at her house. For herself, she enjoys playing golf and
gardening. She hopes to at some point
start volunteering at an animal shelter.
When speaking about the Applying
Enterprise Business Architecture class that I attended, she recognized that
it was a large audience of students, which gave it great interaction and
engagement from those students. She
always learns a lot from the students during class about their environment and
brushes with business architecture of whatever topic she is teaching. For those reasons, she enjoys having a large,
diverse student base in class. It allows
students to learn from each other, which she views as a valuable learning
experience. She was able to split the
audience into separate breakout sessions, creating separate private breakout
rooms in the online meeting service. She
was able to sneak into each of our rooms and let us know we were about to
rejoin the main room. We had a group of
students from Texas that shared with the class that they were currently
implementing business architecture and shared where they were in their process.
I thoroughly enjoyed the class and learned from Gina and the
students in the class. If you are
interested in business architecture or have a need to implement one, take a
look at this course from ASPE Training.
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