for organizations seeking to leverage the Zachman Framework
in the context of the Enterprise Architect modeling tool
Course Overview
Modeling with the Zachman Framework (ZF) is a course designed to impart best practices relating to the utilization of the ZF implementation provided by Sparx Systems as an add-in to its Enterprise Architect modeling tool – for details please refer to the Sparx webpage for the Zachman Framework implementation
Please note that this course does NOT cover the fundamentals of the Zachman Framework itself (for that, please see the official ZF homepage), but only the foundation necessary for a modeler to properly define the artifacts required by its taxonomy.
Why Choose This Course?
This training is extremely valuable if your organization is ready to:
- Raise the maturity level of its modeling practices through the use of a very solid, comprehensive and mature architectural framework.
- Either adopt or expand the use of a low cost yet powerful repository-based modeling tool that can easily integrate with other operational tools of the organization
- Empower its modelers with practical guidance on how to best map the Cell definitions of the Framework to the capabilities provided by Enterprise Architect
Who Should Attend?
Project managers, business subject-matter-experts, analysts, architects, designers and all other personnel who are intended to populate the Framework with any of the numerous model elements required to complete its different levels of abstraction and interrogatives.
What You Will Learn?
- Populating the ZF Cells with the proper artifacts
- Alternate notations to what EA suggests
- Guidance for managing multiple ZF instances
- Building horizontal & vertical traceability between Cells
- Hands-on exercises
- EA tips and best practices
This course eases the learning curve of adopting the Framework for any contributor to the Enterprise’s repository of business and technical knowledge. The comprehensive nature of the ZF makes it a challenge to maintain a global picture of all the links and interdependencies between Cells. This is addressed by providing a complete end-to-end example of using the Framework. Getting the entire team ‘on the same page’ in terms of both the precise modeling semantics of each Cell as well as the responsibilities of each member for providing its proper content is indispensable for a successful adoption of the ZF.
