Agile Business Architecture and the Cloud

EA Principals Agile Business Architecture and the Cloud course provides you with the knowledge and understanding to plan, prioritize, deliver, and manage your cloud strategy successfully at the corporate level using the methodology shown in this book entitled “Practical Guide to Agile Strategy Execution”.
 
This course will allow you to become more customer-driven and more effective with your cloud strategy execution using agile business architecture. 
 
This course includes 4 sessions to be offered in 2 days from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Eastern time. Each session is over 3.5 hours long.  Each session includes a slide deck of at least 140 slides, with diagrams, videos, quizzes, and survey questions. This course also includes 2 examples of at least 100 slides each in PDF format. The first example will be about elaborating on a new SaaS service. As for the second example, it will be about migrating a legacy application to the cloud. Each session will be recorded. 
Here is the table of content for each session of this course.
 
Session 1 – About the Corporate Use of the Cloud
  • About Cloud Computing
  • Cloud versus On-Premises
  • Cloud Deployment and Management Methodologies
  • Infrastructure as a service (‘IaaS’) vs. Platform as a Service (‘PaaS’) vs. Software as a Service (‘SaaS’)
  • Cloud Management: Roles and Responsibilities
  • Cloud Migration of Legacy Applications
  • About Cloud Architecture
  • About Cloud Data Architecture
  • Examining the Financial Aspects of Cloud Computing
  • Selecting your Cloud Service Provider(s)
  • Elaborating a Cloud Service Agreement
 
Session 2- A Summary of Business Architecture
  • Business Design and Strategies – the Basics
  • Providing Customer-Driven Value
  • Product Architecture
  • Finding Participating Stakeholders
  • Finding Required Business Objects/Information Concepts
  • Capability Mapping
  • Assessing and Prioritizing Capabilities
  • Aligning Applications to Capabilities
 
Session 3- SaaS Cloud Project Planning & Delivery (Theory and Example)
  • SaaS Product Architecture
  • Identifying and Assessing Business Capabilities
  • Initiatives, Projects, and Business Outcomes
  • Project and Scenario Elaboration
  • Project Financial Analysis
  • Final SaaS Roadmap
  • Agile Delivery
 
Session 4- Legacy Application Migration to the Cloud Project Planning & Delivery (Theory and Example)
  • Identifying and Assessing Business Capabilities
  • Selecting Application(s) to Keep, Decommission, or Enhance
  • Selecting Database(s) to Keep, Merge, or Enhance
  • Selecting Initial Application(s) and Database(s) to Migrate to the Cloud
  • Initiatives, Projects, and Business Outcomes
  • Project and Scenario Elaboration
  • Project Financial Analysis
  • Final Legacy Application Migration Roadmap
  • Agile Delivery
As a specialist training provider and active contributors to the Enterprise Architecture industry,
when you train with EA Principals you will receive genuine advantages other training
organizations are simply unable to provide:
 
Subject Matter Experts:
All our classes are curated and taught by industry experts with long standing careers in the disciplines that they teach.
 
Industry Knowledge:
EA Principals is one of the first training providers accredited to facilitate this training course.
 
Individual Attention:
We pride ourselves on having a high instructor to student ratio to ensure you receive as much individual attention as desired.
A 100% refund, minus a 5% processing fee, will be given to students who drop or withdraw from the EA Principals, Inc. class no later than the 21st day prior to the announced scheduled start date. No refund will be given within 21 days of the published start date. Students missing a portion of a class, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstances, will be able to attend the next class on the same topic for the days missed, without additional fee. Students need not re-register; however, they must notify EA Principals, Inc. (by email or telephone), so the registration fee for the makeup class can be waived and class logistics provided.
 
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