TRACK — TOGAF™ Tutorials

Monday, July 19, 2010 — 2.00 - 5.30

2:00 - 2:45 TOGAF™ 9 ADM Guidelines and Techniques One of the key contributions of TOGAF 9 is a comprehensive list of guidelines and techniques for ADM (Architecture Development Method). This tutorial will cover these along with real life examples and "war stories" of adapting and applying them to large global corporations and lessons learned. Audience: Chief / enterprise architects, CIOs, EA strategists Key takeaways: Practical significances of TOGAF ADM guidelines & techniques Real life examples of adopting them Traceability of these to business benefits Krish Ayyar, Managing Consultant in Enterprise Architecture, CC & C Solutions. Krish Ayyar is Managing Consultant in Enterprise Architecture at CC & C Solutions. Krish with his Consulting background in Solutions Strategy and EA experience has been a mentor for several architects through CC & C’s e-Learning program. With his broad experience in all areas of IT in Australia and Asia Pacifici he is a highly experienced Enterprise Architecture Consultant and has provided integrated Consulting and Training in TOGAF and EA to customers organisations such as MLC Insurance (Australia), Westpac Bank (Australia), Procter & Gamble (USA), Cognizant Technology Solutions (India / US), Optus, Cisco (Australia), QBE Insurance, Bank of New Zealand, several Government agencies in New Zealand and Australian Bureau of Statistics

2:45 - 3:30 Mapping TOGAF 9 and COBIT: EA Governance Made Practical Without adequate governance, Enterprise Architecture will remain a theoretical concept that will fail to deliver the desired business benefits. Governance is fundamental in entrenching Enterprise Architecture (essentially a new way of working) into a business. This presentation provides an overview of the mapping between COBIT and TOGAF with specific focus on the control points required to sustain a business-appropriate EA Practice. Stuart MacGregor, Real IRM, South Africa Stuart Macgregor is the Chief Executive of the South African company, Real IRM Solutions. Through his personal achievements, he has gained the reputation of an Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance specialist, both in South Africa and internationally. Macgregor participated in the development of the Microsoft Enterprise Computing Roadmap in Seattle. He was then invited by John Zachman to Scottsdale Arizona to present a paper on using the Zachman framework to implement ERP systems. In addition, Macgregor was selected as a member of both the SAP AG Global Customer Council for Knowledge Management, and of the panel that developed COBIT 3rd Edition Management Guidelines. He has also assisted a global Life Sciences manufacturer to define their IT Governance framework, a major financial institution to define their global, regional and local IT organizational designs and strategy. He was also selected as a core member of the team that developed the South African Breweries (SABMiller) plc global IT strategy. Stuart, as the lead researcher, assisted the IT Governance Institute map CobiT 4.0 to TOGAF™ This mapping document was published by ISACA and The Open Group. More recently, he participated in the COBIT 5 development workshop held in London during May 2010.

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4.00 - 4.40 Integrated Platform Architecture (IPA) An overview of Integrated Platform Architecture (IPA) Framework & Practice as the implementation of TOGAF™ in American Express Technologies (AET). IPA Framework provides Models & Definitions, Architecture Principles & Types, Architecture & Strategy Development Processes, and Structures & Templates for development of integrated architectures and strategies in American Express Technologies (AET). Based on IPA Framework, IPA Practice provides Portal, Repositories, Tools and Collaboration Environment for federated architecture and strategy development. Audience:- Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Key takeaways:- An iterativeApproach to implementing TOGAF within your enterprise Implementing TOGAF in your enterprise, not a theoretical exercise Challenges in adopting TOGAF implementation Shar Zand-Biglari, Lead Technical Architect, American Express Shar leads the development of Integrated Platform Architecture (IPA) Framework and Practice as the implementation of TOGAF™ in American Express Technologies (AET), and represents American Express in The Open Group. He has also led the development of Reference Architecture Delivery Framework (RADF), which has been utilized in the development of standard technology architecture capabilities in AET. Prior to joining American Express, Shar held titles of Staff Programmer, Computer Scientist, Infrastructure Architect and Senior Architect with several prominent companies, including IBM, Perot Systems and Dell, where he led EA, SOA, EAI and other architecture and design efforts. He holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

4.40 - 5.20 A Comparison of the Canada Border Services Business Architecture Framework and the TOGAF™ Content Meta Model The Business Architecture Framework in use by CBSA was designed to support business analysis; that is, it is business architecture in support of business decision making. In this talk we will explore the content meta-model used by CBSA and compare it with the TOGAF v9.0 content meta-model Audience:- Enterprise architects, tool makers, and methdologists Key takeaways:- The CBSA business architecture content meta-model provides a richer set of structures for modelling the business value chain 2. The TOGAF content meta-model contains structures that facilitate the understanding of the business technology link 3. The CBSA business architecture framework extends the TOGAF content meta-model and is intended to work with the TOGAF Bill Brierley, Enterprise Architecture Practice Director, TRM Technologies Bill Brierley, as Enterprise Architecture Practice Director, has over 20 years of progressive and diverse experience providing enterprise solutions. For the Public Sector, Mr. Brierley has delivered solutions to the some of the most challenging mandates including the development of network security guidelines for the Government of Canada, Public Safety Interoperability, the Government of Canada‚s IT Security Strategy, and Secure Channel Renewal. Prior to joining forces with TRM, Bill Brierley has been President of Farlane Systems, providing IT security services to Government, based in Ottawa. Mr. Brierley has managed multi-functional teams in fast change environments, and thrives on the challenge of delivering improved efficiency and effectiveness to organizations facing increased constraints on available resources.

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