IASA – IT Architect Core

Module 1:

• Define personal course objectives
• Figure out who is going to enter the leaderboard challenge
• Describe your customer
• Define customer outcome goals

Module 2:

• Define a business model
• Advise and lead using detailed knowledge of customer’s customer
• Define innovation in business
• Understand your clients customer

Module 3:

• Describe your clients capabilities and how they impact services
• Describe an innovative business case
• Think in terms of client value from capabilities to customers

Module 4:

• Get involved in the organizations investment roadmap to make recommendations
• Define and develop and architecture description with the client
• Develop, track and communicate benefits realization and measurement
• Get buy off on new ideas as a trusted advisor

Module 5:

• When Architects talk to other Architects and get challenged (eg. competitive, on features, etc), challenge back by asking thought provoking questions
• Describe and define the relationship between options, decisions and requirements
• Understand the current architecture landscape, evaluation of options and the development of a context and benefits realization view
• Define and describe architecturally significant requirements. Be able to defend and describe the impact of the requirements and how it shapes the solution

Module 6: Structure and Assessment

• Describe an architecture using multiple viewpoints to define its total shape and impacts in both functional and quality attributes
• Use both formal and informal methods to analyze a peer and a customer architecture description.
• Facilitate a design thinking session and mentor the customer through more holistic design methods

Module 7:

• Define an agile team structure which optimizes a client engagement
• Actively define architecture team roles, the extended team impacts and related activities
• Define Stakeholders using multiple tools to better define a stakeholder management plan
• When engaged in stakeholder interactions the architect should have a leadership persona and engage based on a deep understanding of stakeholder needs

Module 8:

• Describe an architecture teams deliverables for an end to end process as a trusted advisor to business and leaders of execution.
• Describe common elements of an engagement model for a client and how adaptations might impact their progress.
• Describe critical processes for the architecture team at an organization.

Module 9:

• Define you customer outcomes and describe your wins and losses
• Demonstrate changes in your behavior towards customers and businesses
• Compile your team engagement model