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Planning & Alignment Processes with Master Planning:
Ensuring Business IT Alignment through IT Master Planning & Roadmapping
In this workshop, CIOs, Chief Architects and IT Strategists & Planners will learn how IT master planning supports organizations to integrate and align business priorities with a standard-compliant and best-value-for-money IT landscape. To not loose track of your plan we will also provide guidance on how to strengthen the integration of business, IT and executing projects along the company‘s planning process.
This master class will cover:
- the challenge: move beyond short-term and ad-hoc planning
- the benefits of integrated and aligned IT planning
- introduction into the methodology:
- as-is application landscape and usage
- IT strategy
- IT roadmap and projects
- best-practices illustrated by real-world use cases
Establishing an EA Program in the Organization:
In this workshop, IT Managers who want to learn more about the need of EA governance processes, how to establish them and what the success factors are will be provided with a detailed picture of the advantages an EA program brings for an organization. We will discuss high-level use cases for establishing successful EA governance using Application Lifecycle Management as an example. You will learn how to identify and implement the steps required to establish a sustainable EA governance process and which roles and decision boards are involved in the process. In this context, we will also illustrate how to distribute responsibilities for capturing and updating the information and data required. Last but not least, we will discuss typical pit falls on the way to establishing sound EA Governance processes.
This Master Class will cover:
- Indications showing need for EA practices
- The benefits of established EA practices
- Implementing the EAM governance process:
- Selecting the use cases for roll out
- Defining the roles involved
- Defining the relevant governance processes
- Identifying the critical mass & capturing the required data basis
- Roll out steps
Delineating Application Portfolio Management Processes:
Getting APM Right To Ensure Delivery of Results to Business
In this workshop, CIOs, Chief Architects, Application Manager and IT Strategists & Planners will learn how to break-down the task of Application Portfolio Management into its core components and discover the best practices that need to be in place in terms of roles, information and process to ensure that the APM program delivers results to the business. This Master Class is based on the valuable experience of practitioners from leading companies in the financial services industry who form the financial industry CTO council which is based in New York.
This Master Class will cover:
- the need for and goals of APM
- understanding the governance structures required for APM success
- knowing the questions to ask and how to answer them
- the information, roles and processes for successful APM
- best-practices illustrated by customer use cases
TOGAF 9 + planningIT
Learn how to use TOGAF® and planningIT to translate business demand into a qualified, documented transformation plan and budget.
This joint master class by Detecon and alfabet will cover:
- a proven Business Transformation Framework based on TOGAF®
- best practice methods for analyzing business strategy impact and
- the definition of value-adding measures
- visualization of how planned measures adhere to company’s goals
- heat maps that make the case for investment
- application portfolio analysis to demonstrate the need for changes in architecture.