During the Implementation / Execution phase of your architecture, you need to keep track of two things: The projects you started to execute your architecture. The OTHER projects that will impact your architecture. —————————- Tracking the projects you started is the easier part. At least – I hope it is. And that you have systems […]
Phase F – Creating the Final Plan
All that project management talk recently had a purpose. Phase F – Migration Planning in TOGAF is when you finalize your plans. All of that preliminary planning – the calculation of risk, the cost estimates for various options, and time estimates go into the decisions around your final architecture and migration plans. Don’t forget […]
Requirements Sample – The LMS and Scenarios
When pulling requirements, it helps to consider the scenarios that the solution will be implemented within. For those of you who are instructional designers and trainers – our version of requirements collection is called “needs assessment.” ————————– In this particular example, Syd (remember her?) and I pulled together some LMS requirements for a project that […]
Breaking Down the Work
Once I’ve taken the time to figure out the opportunity costs of particular scenarios and a decision regarding direction has been made, I start breaking down what needs to happen to get from here to there. —————— A valuable lesson I learned while working on my Master’s Thesis is how to break down a large […]
Calculating Opportunity Costs
We talked a little bit about risk in the last post. In highly risk and change averse cultures, you want to make sure you have a solid argument for why you want to make the changes you wish to make. For executive-types, they want to see numbers. Return on Investment. Whether what you are proposing […]
Phase E – Creating the To-Do List
Once you have your baseline and your target architecture, it is time to create the roadmap or, what I would like to call, the “To Do” list. To build the “To Do” list, we need Where we are at (the Baseline Architecture) Where we want to go (the Target Architecture) The list of projects and […]
Observing the Environment
You may have noticed that I have spent a LOT of time with planning in this blog. The silences should have told you I was also DOING stuff too. Architecture planning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. As the plan is developed, it’s good to observe what is going on in the environment. How are the […]
Relating the Learning Ecosystem to Other Ecosystems
Click the picture to view a larger version. Again, this is NOT the direction we have decided to head. NO decision has been made as of this writing and the picture does not reflect what is going on with my employer. I am putting this here as an example. ————————- In the proposed architecture picture […]
Architecture Vision – Developing Learning Ecosystem v2
This is just one option. This does not reflect the direction we may actually head… ————————————— I have found that 6 months – 1 year out from the end of the LMS contract (or whatever the “core” of your ecosystem is) is a good time to re-evaluate the ecosystem and take a close look at […]
Business Architecture – Validating Workflows
Once I have a few process workflows completed and the members of my team are happy, the next step is to show them to others. I don’t need all of them. I just want to show a few examples of the “least challenging” and get a better feel for how much these stakeholders want to […]
