Business Architecture Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Business Architecture 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 999 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 Architecture improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. When putting together an AWS architecture to solve business problems, specifically for advertising and marketing customers, what are some of your considerations?
   
   

2. How can the private and public sectors create a level playing field and drive the scaling of the circular built environment?
   
   

3. Is your organizations brand user by other business partners including suppliers, customers or even competitors?
   
   

4. How do you survive or do business in either scenario and which kind of future is the best for your business?
   
   

5. What are the authentic experiences and services of your organization that make sense in a virtual ecosystem?
   
   

6. Where does the current architecture contain potential bottlenecks given changes anticipated in data flows?
   
   

7. What tools and techniques would you deploy to create, manage, and deploy technical architecture artifacts?
   
   

8. How do you structure your organization to service your business partners across segments and geographies?
   
   

9. What are your business objectives, what are your business challenges, and what are you trying to achieve?
   
   

10. Is a purpose driven business, firstly, one that is true to self, authentic, a reflection of its founders?
    
    


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 Architecture book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Business Architecture 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 Architecture Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Business Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Variance Analysis: Is budgeted cost for work performed calculated in a manner consistent with the way work is planned?
   
   

2. Project Performance Report: To what degree does the task meet individual needs?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Is there a process (test plans, inspections, reviews) defined for verifying outputs for each task?
   
   

4. Executing Process Group: What are the main types of contracts if you do decide to outsource?
   
   

5. Project Schedule: Why do you think schedule issues often cause the most conflicts on Business Architecture projects?
   
   

6. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree does the teams purpose contain themes that are particularly meaningful and memorable?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: When are the deliverables to be generated in each phase?
   
   

8. Project Schedule: Did the final product meet or exceed user expectations?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Is a pmo (Business Architecture project management office) in place and provide oversight to the Business Architecture project?
   
   

10. Risk Management Plan: Risks should be identified during which phase of Business Architecture project management life cycle?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Business Architecture project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Business Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture project with this in-depth Business Architecture Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Business Architecture 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 Architecture 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 Architecture investments work better.

This Business Architecture 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.