1) Rapid Systems Development for Business Transformation

About this course

This is a subset Course that is an extract of the first 2 lectures in Section 1and 2 lectures in Section 4 of Module 1: Enterprise Architecture for  Managers and IT. It examines the reasons for the high level of redundant data in today’s legacy databases and systems and the solution to this problem. It discusses the impact of the Internet on the pace of change that we are experiencing today in every industry and enterprise: whether Commercial; Government or Defense. It demonstrates the need for rapid business transformation: to compete; and even to survive, in today’s rapid-change environment. The subset Course shows how the systems development methods that we have traditionally used must change, to be able to support the rapid business changes that are occurring today. The lectures of this subset Course show why the systems development methods that are needed to support the business for the future must be based on Strategic Business Plans that management define for that future. These new systems development methods are based on the use of Enterprise Architecture (EA). EA is NOT just an IT responsibility; it is – above all – a business responsibility. For success in today’s rapid-change environment, EA requires the active participation of senior and middle-level business managers (as the true architects of the business) and the business experts who report to them, along with IT experts – all working together in a design partnership. To illustrate these methods in action, a real-world Enterprise Architecture project for a Medium–sized Regional Bank is discussed in some detail, with the final report to the Bank able to be downloaded for your review, This project has been extracted from Section 4 of Module 1 of the “Rapid Delivery Workshop for Enterprise Architecture”. Enterprise Architecture typically uses for implementation the Rapid Delivery Technologies of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Process Models and Wor