103 Enterprise Architecture Modeling Using DoDAF 1.0 & Metastorm ProVision 5.1 - Five Days

Enterprise Architecture Modeling (EAM) is a model-driven approach for documenting, analyzing and understanding strategy, processes, data, systems and technology infrastructure and then improving or redesigning them to increase operational effectiveness. In addition, EAM includes the storage, maintenance, retrieval, analysis, presentation and administration of integrated models on an enterprise-wide basis. The concepts of EAM are enabled by Metastorm ProVision, a visual modeling, repository-based solution that captures, maintains, integrates and presents the "who, what, when, where, why and how" of your organization’s operations and processes.

The Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Framework (DoDAF) defines a common approach for DoD architecture description development, presentation and integration for both warfighting operations and business operations and processes. The Framework is intended to ensure that architecture descriptions can be compared and related across organizational boundaries, including joint and multinational boundaries. An architecture description is a representation of a defined domain, as of a current or future point in time, in terms of its constituent parts, what those parts do, how the parts relate to each other and to the environment, and the rules and constraints governing them.

This course establishes a practical approach for performing EAM using DoDAF, while providing an extensive overview of the capabilities of Metastorm ProVision. The course examples and exercises contain integrated examples of all DoDAF framework products. An example repository and an updated DoDAF modeling language are provided to all participants.

This course serves as a prerequisite for 205 Business Process Analytics Using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and 201 Metastorm ProVision Advanced Features classes.

Establishing Scope and Direction
EAM projects begin by working with project sponsors and stakeholders to define a scope and direction. A business domain is selected and then examined to identify principal actors, key interactions, strategy factors (goals, problems and opportunities) and environmental influences. These components are described as a set of integrated models and objects in Metastorm ProVision and reviewed to develop a consensus understanding of project scope and strategic direction. This view of the business examines major organizations and their roles, including customers, suppliers, competitors and other related parties, and internal departmental relationships. The interactions between these "actors" (involving resources, products, services and feedback) are investigated to understand current operations and identify opportunities for improvement. The resulting business strategy provides guidance for reengineering or improving business processes, and gives direction for ongoing management of the business processes.

Business Process Modeling
A business process is a series of activities that produces a product, service or deliverable of value. Processes are identified within the scope and context of the business strategy. They are framed and modeled using a workflow model to reflect component activities, the organization or role performing the activities, conditional branching and the sequencing of the flow of work between activities. This course includes detailed techniques and best practices for modeling and analyzing current (as-is) and future (to-be) processes.

Metastorm ProVision
Metastorm ProVision enables organizations to improve their performance and competitiveness by providing modeling, analysis and simulation tools for all aspects of the enterprise, including strategy, processes, systems and technology. In this class, Metastorm ProVision’s extensive support for objects and models is thoroughly covered, including model editing, publication, appearance and adornments, object associations, and team usage.

Business Requirements Modeling
The detailed requirements of your business processes can be defined as a set of interacting business objects. A business object is an item of interest to the business. You learn how to identify and model business objects and define object associations, subtypes, attributes and operations. In addition, you build Unified Modeling Language (UML) models in Metastorm ProVision that describe business objects and requirements including use case, business class, subtype, statechart and sequence models that describe both the structure and behavior of your business objects.

DoDAF Framework Products
In this class, you create DoDAF Framework Products in Metastorm ProVision including the All View (AV), Operational View (OV), System View (SV) and Technical View (TV) products. You also learn how to use two special DoDAF automated functions in Metastorm ProVision-- the Activity Based Methodology (ABM) function that automatically generates OV-3 and OV-2 models from selected OV-5 operational activity models and the DoD Core Architecture Data Model (CADM) export / import function.

Who Should Attend?

• Managers responsible for understanding and improving their business processes, leading architecture development projects, or using an architecture to make acquisition, budgeting, or resourcing decisions.
• Business analysts responsible for developing models of business strategy and processes and quantifying improvements.
• IT professionals responsible for working with management and business analysts to enhance and verify business process improvements.
• Architects and engineering team members who need to develop architecture products for high-level decision makers for use in decision support analysis.
• Architecture modelers, tool developers and engineers who are involved with implementing an architecture data repository to store and manipulate architecture data elements.