2016 Business Architecture Summit – Agenda

This will be a panel discussion to present the TCBAF-SIG White Paper on Business Architecture and Agile. The hypothesis of the paper is that Business Architecture can adopt responsive planning techniques and improve the ability of Agile development teams to deliver the intended strategic outcomes.

We are at a turning point in our industry understandings of IT and digital management. This session will present a new framework for thinking about digital delivery, based on the journey of scaling from a startup to the enterprise. This approach illuminates the most challenging topics architects face in the new digital economy.

This session is an interactive workshop in which an entire business architecture (strategies, value streams, capabilities, stakeholders, and information concepts) is mapped based on participant input. During this process, principles and validation criteria will be shared, along with tips on communicating each artifact with business partners.

The presentation examines critical success factors for SAFe, focusing on how business architecture professionals can drive attainment of desired outcomes at different levels spelled out within SAFe. Furthermore, it clarifies terminology differences that exist between SAFe and BIZBOK concepts and how to position business architecture to secure alignment of ultimate solutions to strategic outcomes.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota is in a period of significant business transformation in the volatile healthcare market. The capability planning framework developed by the enterprise architecture team in collaboration with business partners is a pragmatic approach to transforming the enterprise operating model by bridging the gap between business architecture and information systems.

This presentation will explore design principles that enable organizations to realize growth opportunities by migrating from highly integrated business models, where most capabilities are designed to serve a single function, to modular business models. Industry examples include Amazon’s leverage of its computing capability into its AWS business and Kroger’s leverage of data science into dunnhumby.

This session will focus on the value of leveraging service design principles to bridge the strategy-to-execution chasm. Service design is emerging as a powerful approach for companies to apply human-centric design to services. The presentation will showcase how to leverage some key tools, including the “customer journey,” to make architecture come to life through the experience of the customer.

In this session, key connections between business models and disciplined innovation are demonstrated. Practical ways to use the Business Model Canvas for improving existing business operations, determining initial business architecture for new initiatives are explored.

A challenge with business architecture is keeping artifacts relevant.  By linking the artifacts of architects and analysts, organizations can have access to up to date and relevant information needed for decision making and successful project completion.  This session will describe a method to keep artifacts current and relevant.

This session will review the UML Profile utilized by the Business Architecture Guild to increase adoption of the Guild’s BIZBOK-based modeling for existing UML users. This solution diminishes the need for end-users to create their own one-off customizations and allows integration of Business Architecture models with other OMG-based model content (UML, SysML, BPMN, BMM, UAF). The presentation will also review several case studies of this approach.

Based on Asurion’s Business Architecture journey, this presentation will review the process a lessons learned about business analysis tool selection. While no tool is perfect, we gained some insights and tips to share from our selection and implementation. This is not an endorsement for a particular tool, but will reflect our past and current challenges and successes

This presentation will share key learnings from applying business architecture as a tool for strategic planning, including sample work that was foundational for practical application and strategic alignment at the enterprise and segment levels. You will glean a clear understanding of how Mayo used capability models and gap analysis to create a strategic roadmap.