CITA Distinguished
December 2, 2024 2025-01-12 23:19CITA Distinguished
CITA – Distinguished
What You Will Learn
- What are architecture lifecycles, deliverables, and engagements.
- Methods to work across business, technical and management stakeholders.
- Ways of understanding and using customer centric design approaches.
- Tools and techniques for value measurement, tradeoff analysis, design and quality attributes.
- Critical skills in navigating change management from ideation to execution.
- Better ways to combine agile delivery with architecture excellence.
- How to improve an architecture practice engagement model.
In-Person Distinguished Course
- Certification Included
Next Dates
Brochure
Competency Focus Areas
This course specifically looks to improve the students understanding and skills in the following BTABoK Competency Areas.
Our online courses offer a flexible learning experience that caters to different learning styles. You can progress through the course materials at your own pace throughout the week, including video lectures, interactive discussions, and assignments.
Who is this course for?
Senior Architects, Chief Architects.
What you'll learn
- What are architecture lifecycles, deliverables, and engagements.
- Methods to work across business, technical and management stakeholders.
- Ways of understanding and using customer centric design approaches.
- Tools and techniques for value measurement, tradeoff analysis, design and quality attributes.
- Critical skills in navigating change management from ideation to execution.
- Better ways to combine agile delivery with architecture excellence.
- How to improve an architecture practice engagement model.
Module 1
Getting in Gear
The introduction gives you a long view of the entire course and introduces you to the tools and resources available to you.
Module 2
Business and Customer
Understand your client’s business model. Be able to describe how their company makes and spends money, how they differ from their competition
Module 3
Capabilities and Value
Business capabilities provide a common language, enable us to identify which parts of the business need to be focused and improved on
Module 4
Roadmaps and Architecture
Aligning strategies helps the organization to drive the corporation, business units and capabilities in the same direction, optimizing value.
Module 5
Stories and Options
Sharpens your communication skills to become a confident architect. Learn to challenge effectively, explain impact clearly, and drive successful projects.
Module 6
Structure and Assessment
Make the decisions that map to the business objectives, imperatives, and risk aversion without you being able to determine which quality attributes
Module 7
Agile, Roles and Stakeholders
The extended team impacts and related activities. This is where you put together your punch list of resources needed to deliver and operate.
Module 8
Deliverables and Engagement
Simply allows them to be objective and concrete about those activities as well as to set clear objectives and use the same language in doing so.
Module 9
Putting It All Together
Finally, we reflect on what was covered and clear up any confusion that might occur as you apply these tools and techniques.
Teaching Modalities
- 5 days
- 4 lessons per day
- Full time
- 45 min presentation
- 45 min workshops with. group
- Classroom
- Classwork – Miro
- Course Material – MS Teams
- 9 weeks
- 4 hrs per week plus homework Total 6 hrs/wk
- 45 min lessons
- 1 hr group work
- Homework
- Final presentation to instructor for grade
- Online (Teams)
- Homework – Miro
- Course Material – MS Teams
- 10 weeks
- 2 hrs Online Self-Paced
- 2 hrs Homework
- 2 hrs Mentor meeting to review homework
- Final presentation to mentor for grade
- Online Instructor Reviewed
- Homework
- Homework – Miro
- Course Material – Chronus
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