Already Have Business Architecture Training? Here's What's Missing.

If you already have “certification” or training in Business Architecture and are actually trying to “DO” and “BUILD” Business Architectures but have not attended a BACOE Business Architecture Workshop, the chances are high you have “gaps” and “needs” in your Business Architecture development efforts.

A growing number of BACOE Business Architecture Workshop attendees already have Business Architecture training or “certification” prior to attending. We have seen a pattern of 26 “items” noted by these attendees as “gaps” or “needs” that were recognized after these attendees received their “other” certification and Training and have been addressed at BACOE.

Included below are some of the 26 items many of our attendees mentioned were missing in their Business Architecture development process before attending the BACOE Business Architecture workshop:

•Business Capabilities as a deliverable

•Clarity and Reason in Modeling

•Structured Human-Consumable Understandings

•Standardized and Executable process

•Verifiable Correctness/Traceability

•Current Business/Technology Compatibility

•Discrete and Integrated Methods

•Methodology Management

•Project Handbook Preparation

•Consultant/Vendor Demonstration Ability

•Enabling Tools

•Customizability and Customization Services

•Organization Implementation and Integration Services

Here’s what typical “base of understanding” certified individuals have said about BACOE Workshops...

Thanks again for leading one of the best workshops I've attended in my 30+ year career. Good Stuff. I'm a believer in your teaching and will do my best to carry what I learned forward! Cliff, Chris, and I are already putting a plan of action in place. We will keep you informed of our success!!

Tammie J Bossingham

Thank you for a very worthwhile experience this past week. The materials, lectures, and group exercises will prove most useful in my work. It helped me formalize my understanding of the work I have been doing for some time.

Michael H Brody

In my career I have attended numerous 1 and 2 week courses, team building exercises, and other educational experiences. Few have been as satisfying to me at the end, as this one has.

Vince Tuzzeo

Ready to go beyond a “base of understanding”?

Your “base of understanding” training has provided you with the definitions and descriptions of the EA process. With that knowledge, you are well-prepared to get the most out of attending the Business Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE) practitioner-based Workshop to move to a higher level in your career; move to a practitioner-based Business Architecture understanding that will let you take what you've learned, enhanced by the hands-on experience you now have, to achieve the next level in your BA career.

Your next step is a BACOE practitioner’s workshop where you will take what you have learned and actually conduct a Business Architecture project. We provide everything you need—tools, methodology, frameworks, templates—and teach you how to use them as you create your own BA.

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Comparing Two Leading Business Architecture Methodologies and Frameworks:

The Business Architecture Guild® and BACOE™

Bernard Baillargeon’s comparative review of The Open Group’s TOGAF® and the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE™) applied eight rigorous criteria to expose the structural and philosophical differences between a theory-driven, exam-based approach and a practitioner-based one. His conclusions were clear: TOGAF is IT-focused; EACOE is business-focused. TOGAF produces practitioners who can pass a multiple-choice test; EACOE produces practitioners who can actually do the work.

The same discipline of analysis deserves to be applied to Business Architecture, and specifically, to the two most prominent organizations that claim to define and certify its practice: the Business Architecture Guild® and the Business Architecture Center of Excellence (BACOE™).

This article applies Baillargeon’s eight criteria directly to these two organizations. The goal is not advocacy for its own sake, but clarity, the same clarity that every executive, practitioner, and organization deserves before investing time, money, and organizational credibility into a Business Architecture program.