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Can anyone enroll? Yes, the class is an open enrollment workshop, but we limit the class size to 16.  The Enterprise Architecture class is targeted at practicing enterprise architects and aspiring enterprise architects, and managers of enterprise architecture teams, including CTO's and CIO's.

What does the Enterprise Architecture Workshop cover? See the class overview.

Does the class apply to other architecture disciplines? The Enterprise Architecture Workshop, as the name implies, focuses on enterprise architecture, covering the disciplines of Business Architecture, Enterprise Applications Architecture, Enterprise Technology (or Infrastructure) Architecture, and Enterprise Information (or Data) Architecture, from the point of view of enterprise architecture.

Is the class full? No, there are still 8 seats open. To enroll, please fill out our online enrollment form for the class, and we'll email you the invoice so you can arrange payment.  Please tell your colleagues about this class. We'd appreciate it, you'll benefit from having more critical mass behind your architecting work, and they'll benefit from the early enrollment discount!

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What is the value of this class?  Our approach to Enterprise Architecture starts with creating a firm foundation in Architecture Strategy that is aligned with the business strategy. We advocate creating a Business Capabilities Architecture, as the cornerstone to Enterprise Architecture. This supports the business strategy process as well as the Enterprise Architecture process. Now business leaders can focus on what business capabilities are key to achieving strategic objectives, and enterprise architects can focus on creating and enhancing business capabilities identified by the business strategy as critical priorities. This, together with the Minimalist Architecture Principle, ensures that the Enterprise Architecture is focused where it will make the most significant impact on business success. This helps the Enterprise Architecture team focus on achievable, yet highly strategic, objectives.

Hundreds of very talented and experienced architects have taken our classes. They find our classes both inspiring and practical, giving them solid techniques and concepts to apply on the job to make their architectures, and their business, more successful. Even the most experienced architects consistently identify key steps that they have missed on their architecting projects. They also identify much that they have been doing right, and value this confirmation of their use of best practice. 

Doing the right steps, in the right order, to the right extent, with good techniques and sound principles, saves architects time and makes them more effective. Yes, there is some strength to the argument that architecting skills are learned from experience--but the lesson is always much less costly when it is from someone else's experience! We have focused exclusively on architecture, effective architectural practice, and architecture teaching since 1995, and arguably lead the industry in synthesizing architecture experience into our approach to architecture and our training classes.  

Who else should take this class? We firmly believe that individuals can bring about significant organizational change, but it takes effort and attention. It would behoove your team to focus this leadership and effort on making the architecture successful, rather than on figuring out a common team approach to creating the architecture! Having the entire team take the class is obviously the most effective way to establish a solid foundation of architecture concepts and practice.  

Please let others know about this workshop--you can email this page using the "File/Send/Page by Email" option on Internet Explorer!

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