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Assessment, Planning and Education

AgileLayer assists organizations in defining and documenting their Business Capabilities Management and Service-oriented Architecture strategies and detailed adoption plans. AgileLayer utilizes its Readiness Diagnostics, Maturity Models, Strategy and Planning templates, and a series of tailored education and planning workshops in order to develop a highly relevant, pragmatic and holistic approach to implementing enterprise Service-oriented Business Capabilities Architecture.

AgileLayer education and planning workshops are tailored, half to two-day sessions for Business and IT managers, business analysts, enterprise architects, and IT planning staff. They provide for rapid level-setting and serve to catalyze enterprise strategy and adoption of enterprise Business Capabilities Management and SOA programs. The workshops are interactive by design, and guide participants towards identifying issues, requirements and opportunities germane to their enterprise – along with action plans to address them. Topics typically covered include:

  • Business Capabilities and Service-oriented Architectures: Definition and Background
  • Perspectives on and Requirements for operational-izing Business Architecture
  • SOA as a Transformation Mechanism
  • Adoption Models and Approaches for Business Capabilities Management and SOA programs
  • Enterprise Readiness Assessment
  • Reference Architectures
  • Technologies and Standards
  • Vendor/Product Landscape
  • Methodology and tooling for Business Capabilities Engineering™
  • Methodology and tooling for Business Services Identification and Definition
  • Service Blueprinting and Master Planning
  • Integrating Business Capabilities Engineering™ with SOA and BPM Initiatives
  • Shared Capabilities & Services Models
  • Deployment and Operational Requirements
  • Governance Requirements and Approaches
  • Action Planning

Please register to receive further detail on AgileLayer Education and Planning Workshops.