IAB401 Enterprise Architecture
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| Unit code: | IAB401 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | IAB201 and IAB305 |
| Equivalent(s): | INB222 IAB301 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,788 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | IAB401 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IAB201 and IAB305 |
| Equivalent: | INB222 IAB301 |
| Coordinator: | Ignatius Chukwudi | ignatius.chukwudi@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit covers Enterprise Architecture (EA) theory and practice, concerning the ways in which business and IT systems are planned and designed using modelling techniques. EA focuses on organizational capability maps, which reflect what businesses do, independent of business. The techniques for capturing different artefacts at business and IT levels relevant to systems planning will include business services, processes, information and resources. Students will be taught how to develop a multi-layered EA based on state-of-the-art modelling techniques in TOGAF Archimate and UML. Importantly, this unit extends your knowledge and skills to model, design and problem and pursue careers in EA, modelling, design and solution architecture of individual systems. The unit links to and extends learning from previous units in Data and Information Management and Process Modelling.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explain Enterprise Architecture (EA) theory, principles, and frameworks.
- Apply Enterprise Architecture languages to model business capabilities, services, processes, information, and IT resources.
- Analyse a real-world organisational context to develop Enterprise Architecture Models.
- Propose a solution architecture based on developed architecture models.
- Collaborate with others in a team environment to deliver an Enterprise Architecture solution for a client.
- Communicate enterprise architecture models professionally in written and visual formats to key stakeholders.
Content
This unit will cover Enterprise Architecture theory and practice based overall frameworks, individual parts and perspectives, and case studies. The framework will cover key activities involved in developing and maintaining enterprise architectures, based on the widely adopted TOGAF framework. The individual parts and perspectives will cover techniques that are used to capture enterprise architecture components. These include organizational capability maps, which reflect what businesses do, independent of business or technical implementation concepts. The techniques for capturing different artefacts at business and IT levels relevant to systems planning will include business services, processes, information and resources. An EA technique, Archimate, supported as part of TOGAF, will be used to illustrate how operational models of key scenarios are captured, at the business and IT levels, combining these different artefacts. Dedicated techniques used to capture detailed aspects of different artefacts, such as BPMN for business processes or UML for information models, will referred to, but not taught in full detail. You will be given an opportunity to choose from different case studies to develop different aspects of enterprise architecture, to work on these in teams, and to formally present your proposals.
Learning Approaches
Lectures/Lectorials: 1 hour weekly
Workshops: 2 hours weekly
A case-based approach is used for this unit. Weekly lectures will develop your knowledge, frameworks, activities and technical skills related to enterprise architecture while the workshops will enable you to further the understanding and development of the skills. You will be required to work in groups, as would be expected in an enterprise architecture related role
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment is designed progressively across the semester to provide multiple opportunities for feedback and improvement. This includes a mix of oral and written feedback from peers and teachers on a portfolio-based learning report, assignment report and multi-choice exam.
Assessment
Overview
General Assessment Information
The assessment in this unit has been designed so that you develop an understanding on different perspectives that influence, and are influenced by, the work of enterprise architects. You will develop the skills to individually learn and to engage in reflective practice. You will also develop the skills to work collaboratively on an EA project, to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, and to develop the particular oral skills for formally presenting enterprise architectures.
The assessments are designed to give you proficiency and confidence at understanding and developing enterprise architectures at different levels. In first assessment (portfolio based learning), you will explore the complexity of organisational activities and apply a technique for capturing the essence of what organisations do through capability maps. This will be undertaken individually to allow you to reflect on how enterprise architecture broadly applies for shaping the understanding of organisations and in planning for systems. In the second assessment (assignment), you will apply modelling and design for capturing both business and IT aspects of systems, through a technique aimed at the enterprise architecture level. You will then show how detailed techniques such as BPMN (processes) and UML (information), more suitable for individual systems (or solution architectures), can be aligned into the enterprise architecture level. This assessment will be conducted as part of a group. The third assessment is designed to consolidate your knowledge, through an end of semester, multi-choice exam.
Assessment is designed progressively across the semester to provide multiple opportunities for feedback and improvement. This includes a mix of oral and written feedback from peers and teachers on a portfolio-based learning report, assignment report and multi-choice exam.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
develop a model of an organisational capability map from an example provided from a particular business domain. This will enable you to demonstrate how enterprise architectures can be used at high levels to frame what organisations do, through compact, implementation-free representations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Project (applied)
Working within a team, you will chose a case study drawn from different business domains, and work together to prepare enterprise architecture models of selected areas in the business. You will then align the enterprise architecture models with solution architecture models to show how these can provide coherence of analysis and design for individual systems. And present and write a group report of your models, analysis and design.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Online Quiz
The online quiz will be scheduled during the semester and relate to the material delivered in the respective lectures. They will cover general concepts and principles, not detailed analysis or architecture techniques, or exemplar solutions, already covered in the first two assessments. The online quiz is designed to provide students with an immediate opportunity to apply their understanding of the concepts.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Library and web-based information for supplementary reading as will be indicated through lecture material
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
M. Lankhorst et al. Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (2nd Ed). Springer-Verlag, 2009
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit. You will be made aware of evacuation procedures and assembly areas in the first few lectures. In the event of a fire alarm sounding, or on a lecturer's instruction, you should leave the room and assemble in the designated area which will be indicated to you. You should be conscious of your health and safety at all times whilst on campus or in the field.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
3: Technology Resources
5: ICT Management
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Demonstrate well-developed IT discipline knowledge
Relates to: ULO1 - Employ appropriate IT Methods
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4 - Critically apply design and problem solving skills
Relates to: ULO3 - Work independently and within effective teams
Relates to: ULO5 - Communicate effectively in professional contexts
Relates to: ULO6
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | IAB401 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | IAB201 and IAB305 |
| Equivalent: | INB222 IAB301 |
Overview
This unit covers Enterprise Architecture (EA) theory and practice, concerning the ways in which business and IT systems are planned and designed using modelling techniques. EA focuses on organizational capability maps, which reflect what businesses do, independent of business. The techniques for capturing different artefacts at business and IT levels relevant to systems planning will include business services, processes, information and resources. Students will be taught how to develop a multi-layered EA based on state-of-the-art modelling techniques in TOGAF Archimate and UML. Importantly, this unit extends your knowledge and skills to model, design and problem and pursue careers in EA, modelling, design and solution architecture of individual systems. The unit links to and extends learning from previous units in Data and Information Management and Process Modelling.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Explain Enterprise Architecture (EA) theory, principles, and frameworks.
- Apply Enterprise Architecture languages to model business capabilities, services, processes, information, and IT resources.
- Analyse a real-world organisational context to develop Enterprise Architecture Models.
- Propose a solution architecture based on developed architecture models.
- Collaborate with others in a team environment to deliver an Enterprise Architecture solution for a client.
- Communicate enterprise architecture models professionally in written and visual formats to key stakeholders.
Content
This unit will cover Enterprise Architecture theory and practice based overall frameworks, individual parts and perspectives, and case studies. The framework will cover key activities involved in developing and maintaining enterprise architectures, based on the widely adopted TOGAF framework. The individual parts and perspectives will cover techniques that are used to capture enterprise architecture components. These include organizational capability maps, which reflect what businesses do, independent of business or technical implementation concepts. The techniques for capturing different artefacts at business and IT levels relevant to systems planning will include business services, processes, information and resources. An EA technique, Archimate, supported as part of TOGAF, will be used to illustrate how operational models of key scenarios are captured, at the business and IT levels, combining these different artefacts. Dedicated techniques used to capture detailed aspects of different artefacts, such as BPMN for business processes or UML for information models, will referred to, but not taught in full detail. You will be given an opportunity to choose from different case studies to develop different aspects of enterprise architecture, to work on these in teams, and to formally present your proposals.
Learning Approaches
Lectures/Lectorials: 1 hour weekly
Workshops: 2 hours weekly
A case-based approach is used for this unit. Weekly lectures will develop your knowledge, frameworks, activities and technical skills related to enterprise architecture while the workshops will enable you to further the understanding and development of the skills. You will be required to work in groups, as would be expected in an enterprise architecture related role
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment is designed progressively across the semester to provide multiple opportunities for feedback and improvement. This includes a mix of oral and written feedback from peers and teachers on a portfolio-based learning report, assignment report and multi-choice exam.
Assessment
Overview
General Assessment Information
The assessment in this unit has been designed so that you develop an understanding on different perspectives that influence, and are influenced by, the work of enterprise architects. You will develop the skills to individually learn and to engage in reflective practice. You will also develop the skills to work collaboratively on an EA project, to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills, and to develop the particular oral skills for formally presenting enterprise architectures.
The assessments are designed to give you proficiency and confidence at understanding and developing enterprise architectures at different levels. In first assessment (portfolio based learning), you will explore the complexity of organisational activities and apply a technique for capturing the essence of what organisations do through capability maps. This will be undertaken individually to allow you to reflect on how enterprise architecture broadly applies for shaping the understanding of organisations and in planning for systems. In the second assessment (assignment), you will apply modelling and design for capturing both business and IT aspects of systems, through a technique aimed at the enterprise architecture level. You will then show how detailed techniques such as BPMN (processes) and UML (information), more suitable for individual systems (or solution architectures), can be aligned into the enterprise architecture level. This assessment will be conducted as part of a group. The third assessment is designed to consolidate your knowledge, through an end of semester, multi-choice exam.
Assessment is designed progressively across the semester to provide multiple opportunities for feedback and improvement. This includes a mix of oral and written feedback from peers and teachers on a portfolio-based learning report, assignment report and multi-choice exam.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
develop a model of an organisational capability map from an example provided from a particular business domain. This will enable you to demonstrate how enterprise architectures can be used at high levels to frame what organisations do, through compact, implementation-free representations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Project (applied)
Working within a team, you will chose a case study drawn from different business domains, and work together to prepare enterprise architecture models of selected areas in the business. You will then align the enterprise architecture models with solution architecture models to show how these can provide coherence of analysis and design for individual systems. And present and write a group report of your models, analysis and design.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Online Quiz
The online quiz will be scheduled during the semester and relate to the material delivered in the respective lectures. They will cover general concepts and principles, not detailed analysis or architecture techniques, or exemplar solutions, already covered in the first two assessments. The online quiz is designed to provide students with an immediate opportunity to apply their understanding of the concepts.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Library and web-based information for supplementary reading as will be indicated through lecture material
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
M. Lankhorst et al. Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (2nd Ed). Springer-Verlag, 2009
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit. You will be made aware of evacuation procedures and assembly areas in the first few lectures. In the event of a fire alarm sounding, or on a lecturer's instruction, you should leave the room and assemble in the designated area which will be indicated to you. You should be conscious of your health and safety at all times whilst on campus or in the field.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Australian Computer Society Core Body of Knowledge
3: Technology Resources
5: ICT Management
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.IN01 Bachelor of Information Technology
- Demonstrate well-developed IT discipline knowledge
Relates to: ULO1 - Employ appropriate IT Methods
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4 - Critically apply design and problem solving skills
Relates to: ULO3 - Work independently and within effective teams
Relates to: ULO5 - Communicate effectively in professional contexts
Relates to: ULO6