Capability Associate
Foundation Professional Master
Business Technology Strategy
Introduction Business-Technology 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Strategy Fundamentals
Business 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Strategy Development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Industry Analysis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Business Valuation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Investment Prioritization and Planning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Requirements Discovery and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Constraints Analysis
Compliance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Business Architecture Methods & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Tools Support
Decision 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Knowledge Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
IT Environment
IT Environment Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Technical Project Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Capabilities
Asset Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Change Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Application Development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Governance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Testing Methods, Tools, and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Techniques
Platforms and Frameworks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Design Skills
Introduction to Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Requirements Modeling 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Architecture Description 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Decomposition and Reuse 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Design Methodologies and Processes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Design Patterns and Styles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Design Analysis and Testing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Traceability Throughout the Lifecycle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Views & Viewpoints 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Whole Systems Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Human Dynamics
Introduction to Human Dynamics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Managing the Culture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Customer Relations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Leadership and Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Peer Interaction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Collaboration and Negotiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Presentation Skills 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Writing Skills 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Quality Attributes
Introduction to Quality Attributes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Balancing and Optimizing Quality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Attributes
Manageability, Maintainability, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Supportability, Extensibility, and
Monitoring and Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Performance, Reliability, Availability, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Scalability
Security 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Usability, Localization, Accessibility, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Personalization/Customizability
Packaging, Delivery, Post Deployment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Specialization Skills (Choose 1 Category)
Software Architecture
Software Architecture Specialties 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Software Architecture Development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Methodologies and Processes
Software Architecture Tools 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Software Engineering for Architects 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Services, Workflow and Messaging 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Advanced Quality Attributes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Advanced Stakeholder Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Software Architecture Patterns 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Technologies, Platforms & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frameworks
Data/Information/Knowledge 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Management
Infrastructure Architecture
Infrastructure Architecture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Introduction
Access and Identity Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Capacity Planning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Common Application Services 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Device Management 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Infrastructure RAS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Network Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Operations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
System Management and Services 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Data Center Design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Provisioning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Disaster Recovery and Backup 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
High Availability Computing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Environment
Foundation 1 Awareness
Associate 2 Basic Information Demonstration
3 Individualized Knowledge
4 Practice
Professional 5 Delivery
6 Connectivity of Ideas
7 Enterprise Level Leadership
Master 8 Industry Mentorship
9 Research
10 Industry Leadership
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Definitions
This introductory course lays out the foundation of the business-technology skill set. The student will learn how
and why business-technology strategybroad and generic core competency ofand functions. The student will
This course introduces the student to development is a business structures the architecture profession.
understand details the partnership between the business architect and the technical architect relative to the
This course basic business structures and functions and the basic nature of running a business.
creation of a business model that defines the principles,and how organizations function within the integrated
This course covers the foundations of business markets standards, structure, and dynamics of them. It will give
This course assists the student with understanding how business vertical with common technology directions
the architect the understanding to combine a particular and when to invest in particulartrends in the technology
This course introduces overall portfolio of technology of two different student will learn common techniques
and how to manage thethe student to the managementinvestments. The types of portfolio lifecycles – assets and
projects – both of which are important tofor understanding business but which require very different investment
This course defines tools and techniques be planned and managed, requirements with multiple strategic
impacts. The student will learn howregulatory impacts to the organization and the design/solutionexternally and
This course focuses the student on such requirements and constraints are formed internally and being
This course introduces the will cover audits, certifications, licensing, business architecture methods types. The
deployed. Course materialsstudent to the strategic and tactical use of and general industry regulation and tools,
including but of architectural advancement isengineering, business process management, businessprovides the
A major area not limited to business process in decision support and ‘smart’ systems. This course process
learner withassists the conceptsin understanding and designing a solution that supports how business information
This course the basic student and components in decision and business intelligence systems and will
is built, stored, managed, and made easily accessible. Course content will cover current issues around the
This course overviews key elements of the IT environment and demonstrates how to ascertain the organization
maturity and solution maturity with an organization.
This course covers the role of project management specific to an IT project or program. Understanding the
This course offers the student an understanding of developing and in developing the future state capabilities
existing deployed solutions (and the limitations of those solutions) deploying a solution designed to manage the
intellectual property a deep understanding of the vital nature ofwithin the and utilizing effective change
This course provides of solutions and architectural components designing IT environment.
management processes and the critical role varying approaches to application development and will include
This course aims to define and describe the that change control plays in a quality operational design.
COTS package implementation and infrastructure upgrades. an organization and the importance of having clearly
This course details the decision-making environment within The functions of opportunity definition, preliminary
This course details best practices relative to oversight of projects, tools. Students will be expected to
defined roles and responsibilities in testing theory, techniques andprocesses, and products. Students will be
demonstrate competence in the scientific method and important testing techniques.
This course provides the architect with a working knowledge of primary platforms and frameworks used
throughout the public and private sectors. Emphasis will be put on the architectural qualities and not on specific
This course addresses basic design theory and the scope of design-related strategies and techniques that an
architect requires and successful.
This course detailsto bedemonstrates to the student multiple ways to model business and technical
requirements, architectures, and designs and how to transform models of one type into another. Domain-
This course lays out formal architecture documentation techniques and enables the student to demonstrate
This course details the major building blocks of modern software and infrastructure architecture views and
competence in detailed architecture communication. Design diagramming notation,design and will enable the
student to demonstrate competence in their synthesis.competent designers, fluent in a number of methods and
This course aims to equip students to become flexible,
toolscourse assists the student with understanding metaphor and pattern concepts, styles versus pattern, and
This by defining and describing the basic process of design, as distinct from the process as embodied in one of
will enable the studentstudent with understanding architecture and communicating and related tools. This
This course assists the to demonstrate competence in deriving analysis techniques pattern and style.
This course introducesdescribe a design and its components, evaluate a design relative to alternatives,the
course details how to the student to the concept of traceability from initial requirements through to describe
sustained system and the vital role of traceability throughout the lifecycle of developed products. The student
This course introduces the concepts of views, viewpoints, and perspectives and helps students come to grips
withevolving discipline of IT architecturehow theyarchitects to understand the "whole system" of interconnected
The the differences between them and requires work together to describe an architecture. In this course,
elements that participate in, impact, and influence the design process. This course helps architects understand
This course overviews important concepts of human and organizational psychology, associated leadership and
This course provides an understanding of the impact of human context, and their relevance to the architect.
management skills, fundamental communications in a technicalculture upon organizations and basic culture
recognition overviews the psychological dynamics of customer management, and discusses business to the
This course and management techniques. Course content addresses the organizational politics unique
imperatives, modern techniquesto differentiate between leadership, management, industry engagement,
This course enables the student and tools for customer relationship management, and administration. It
enables the details the psychology of interpersonal personal leadership skillstheir evaluate thein the context of IT
This course understanding of how to assess one's human interactions and and importance leadership
products and services design and delivery.
This course provides an overview of basic communications theory and the specific collaboration and negotiation
skills essential to effective functioning as an architect. The student will understand the psychology The focus
This course provides the student with fundamental techniques to improve their presentation skills.of human is
on presentationsdemonstrate competence in writing skills necessary to function asdecisions andand to enhance
Understand and made to key stakeholders clearly identifying technology strategy an architect opportunities.
the growth potential of one’s career. Techniques and methods for book writing, informal composition, memos
This course introduces the student to basic approaches to providing optimal performance and user experience
This IT products and services. The course will discuss and optimizing in systems development projects. tools
fromcourse details specific issues relative to balancingquality management imperatives, techniques, andThe
student will details specific issues relative to manageability, maintainability, supportability, extensibility, and
This course understand basic strategies and tactics necessary to provide optimal performance, user experience
flexibility and enable the student management imperatives, quality attributes. The student will be
This course details specific qualityto understand each of thesetechniques and tools. The student will required to
demonstrate competencyof performance, reliability, availability, and scalability Agreement (SLA) creationto
This course details issues in problem analysis, capacity planning, Service Level and requires the student and
This course details security, of these quality attributes such as portability and efficiency and competence in basic
demonstrate understandingprivacy, authenticity, access privileges, information protection and disaster recovery,
asset managementusability and threat modeling and recovery, and related issues. Student will demonstrate
This course details techniques, human factors fundamentals, and describes related internationalization
strategies and current issues. Students will demonstrate competence in basic following the completion of
This course details the expectations, process and management of IT products implementation techniques.
development and prior to “normal” day-to-day operating conditions. Covered topics will include data conversion
This is an overview course that describes the major categories of knowledge/specialization within software
architecture. Each specialization is introduced and each module defines commonalities between specializations
The software architect participates in many phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This course
will allow the student to understand common development cycles and their role of these to create working
In addition to design and communication tools, software architects use a variety in tools processes. The course
solutions and participate in the and work through advancedcourse willin softwarethe student to thea focus on the
The student will be introduced development process. This concepts introduce engineering with significant
architect’s role inArchitecture, messaging, workflow and other systems have become a major component of the
Service Oriented working with developers and software engineers.
Software solutions must provide appropriate support concepts and and quality of these across all IT systems.
architect’s toolset. This course will introduce commonfor constraints componentsattributessolutions with a focus
This software architect works with large numbers of stakeholders including developers, management and project
The course will give an advanced view of the software architect's responsibilities and opportunities for ensuring
leadership. This pattern expresses a fundamental structural organization schema for software system, which
An architectural is an advanced course on making these interactions and relationshipsafruitful. Focus of this
consists of subsystems, their responsibilities and interrelations. Examples of architectural patterns include the
This advanced course describes, contrasts and compares key technologies important to the work of the software
This survey course describes the essentials of data technologies, integration technologies, remoting
architect, for example: Mobile technologies, client modeling, managing, mining, transforming, converting, and
reporting; provides fundamental understanding of data structures, the importance and creation of taxonomies,
Understanding of the role of the infrastructure architect. An introduction to the topics, skills and requirements of
the IA role in an organization.
Understanding the implementation and design of an identity and access solution within an enterprise.
Understanding the parameters’, constraints and design requirements for capacity within the environment
(introduction) including storage, network and operationswithin the infrastructure deployed and how to convey
Understanding the common application services offered capacity.
this understanding to another architect. and solutions for patch management, application and OS deployment
Understanding the common requirements
and structured management of both.
Understanding of an ability to design the remote access facilities for an organization.
Understanding and design of networks and network components, configuration and management requirements
for both solutions and design ofinfrastructure. and management requirements for an IT organization.
Understanding of and existing the operations
Understanding of a design of the management and services tools requirement for system, network and solution
optimization. the design of physical data center facilities, including access controls and other security concerns.
Understanding
Understanding the processes and procedures required to efficiently and effectively build out a physical or virtual
server or other the infrastructure required to support effective disaster recovery and backup/restore processes.
Understanding device.
Understanding the infrastructure and operational requirements to provide a highly available computing
environment (covers two of the three subjects necessary to provide high availability). 420
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Experience level 5-7
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Practice Activity
Awareness
Individualized Knowledge
Practice
Delivery
Connectivity of Ideas
Enterprise Level Leadership
Mentorship
Research
Industry Leadership