Business Architect Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Business Architect Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Business Architect related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Business Architect specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Business Architect Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Business Architect improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How should organizations integrate business architecture with the approaches to quality and performance management and enterprise and solution architecture?
   
   

2. How is the demand for skills likely to change as labor markets change in response to structural trends and developments in the coming years?
   
   

3. Can the business architecture methodology be realistically followed by your organization or does it present overwhelming complexity?
   
   

4. How is the demand for skills likely to change as labor markets respond structural trends and developments in the coming years?
   
   

5. Does the business architecture methodology support current techniques and technology or is it based upon outdated practices?
   
   

6. Is the business architecture methodology vendor capable of demonstrating any aspect of the methodology on a real project?
   
   

7. What applications currently running on premises are your organizations highest priority to move to public cloud services?
   
   

8. Is the vendor focused on business architecture and capability modeling as a core feature and the anchor of its software?
   
   

9. What are the career options for business architects who have successfully mastered the role and want to advance further?
   
   

10. Does the business architecture methodology identify the support tools appropriate for the execution of each method?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Business Architect book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Business Architect self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Business Architect Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Business Architect areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Business Architect Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Business Architect projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Business Architect Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Business Architect project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Project or Phase Close-Out: In preparing the Lessons Learned report, should it reflect a consensus viewpoint, or should the report reflect the different individual viewpoints?
   
   

2. Variance Analysis: Budget versus actual. how does the monthly budget compare to actual experience?
   
   

3. Team Operating Agreement: What is your unique contribution to your organization?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Are cause and effect determined for risks when they occur?
   
   

5. Schedule Management Plan: Are all activities captured and do they address all approved work scope in the Business Architect project baseline?
   
   

6. Team Member Performance Assessment: What stakeholders must be involved in the development and oversight of the performance plan?
   
   

7. Project Scope Statement: If the scope changes, what will the impact be to your Business Architect project in terms of duration, cost, quality, or any other important areas of the Business Architect project?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: How closely did deliverables match what was defined within the Business Architect project Scope?
   
   

9. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree does the teams work approach provide opportunity for members to engage in fact-based problem solving?
   
   

10. Scope Management Plan: Do you secure formal approval of changes and requirements from stakeholders?


 
Step-by-step and complete Business Architect Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Architect project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Business Architect project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Business Architect project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Business Architect project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Business Architect project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Business Architect project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Business Architect project with this in-depth Business Architect Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Architect projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Business Architect and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Business Architect investments work better.

This Business Architect All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.