Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals
| Instructor | CEU Units | # of Lectures | Hours per Week | Tuition |
| John Goetze | 4.8 | 12 | 8-10 | $3,200 |
Course Objectives
This course provides students with an understanding of the basic concepts and practices of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Upon course completion students will:
- Understand the role of EA in integrated governance; specifically, how EA relates to IT-related strategic planning, capital planning, operations management, security and privacy, program management, standards, and workforce planning.
- Understand how EA uses strategic priorities and business requirements to drive IT solution development, and implementation.
- Understand how EA functions as a management program as well as an analysis and documentation methodology.
- Understand how the scope of the EA program and documentation method is visualized through a hierarchical framework that encompasses strategic initiatives, business processes, information flows, IT systems and services, and networks.
- Understand how EA can lower the risk of implementing successful IT solutions.
- Understand how EA addresses organizational culture and dynamics in supporting strategies for implementing and managing change.
- Understand the historical roots of EA practice and theory.
- Understand how to use scenario planning to gain executive level participation in future architecture development.
- Understand the difference between solution, domain, and enterprise architecture.
- Understand how to use scenario planning to gain executive level participation in future architecture development.
- Understand concepts and methods for establishing and populating an organization's EA website and documentation repository.
- Participate in on-line threaded discussions of EA topics with fellow students that will bring out real-world experiences in dealing with EA issues, challenges, and opportunities.
Prerequisites
None
Required Textbook
Scott Bernard (2020) An Introduction to Holistic Enterprise Architecture. Authorhouse. ISBN13: 978-1728358055
Topics
Lecture 1: Enterprise Architecture Theory and Practice Overview
Lecture 2: The Roots of Enterprise Architecture - Age of Information
Lecture 3: The Scope of Enterprise Architecture
Lecture 4: EA 6 Basic Elements
Lecture 5: The EA6 Cube
Lecture 6: EA Documentation Overview
Lecture 7: EA Documentation Area - 1 Strategy Architecture
Lecture 8: EA Documentation Area - 2 Business Architecture
Lecture 9: EA Documentation Area - 3 Data and Information Architecture
Lecture 10: EA Documentation Area - 4 Systems and Application Architecture
Lecture 11: EA Documentation Area - 5 Networks and Infrastructure, Security, Skills and Standards
Lecture 12: Combining EA Artifacts
Weekly Online Discussion Topics
A one-hour online meeting is held every Tuesday evening from 7-8pm CET. The link is available on the course website. Topics and Assignment Reviews are mandatory. student Q&A time is also provided.