TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation Training Course

Course overview

Enterprise architecture teams are often asked to justify major technology investments, align delivery portfolios to business strategy, and reduce duplication across applications, data platforms and infrastructure. Without a repeatable architecture method, decisions can become driven by individual projects, undocumented assumptions or vendor roadmaps. This TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation Training Course gives practitioners a structured way to define the current state, design target architectures, sequence change and govern delivery against agreed principles.

Participants work through the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition, with emphasis on the Architecture Development Method (ADM). They learn to establish the architecture capability; identify stakeholders and concerns; develop business, data, application and technology architecture domains; create baseline and target views; conduct gap analysis; define Architecture Building Blocks and Solution Building Blocks; produce a roadmap; and apply governance. The course also introduces the TOGAF Content Metamodel, Enterprise Continuum, Architecture Repository, Architecture Landscape and the relationship between TOGAF and ArchiMate modelling.

Instruction combines guided teaching with a running enterprise transformation case. Participants build practical architecture artefacts rather than only reviewing terminology: an architecture vision, stakeholder map, principles catalogue, baseline-to-target gap assessment, candidate roadmap and governance approach. They leave with a completed TOGAF ADM application pack that can be adapted to a real architecture initiative, plus a clear method for framing architecture work with sponsors, product teams, delivery leads and suppliers.

The course is suited to experienced IT, digital and data professionals moving into enterprise or solution architecture responsibilities, as well as leaders who need to commission, govern or assess architecture work. It is equally useful where an organisation is standardising fragmented architecture practices or introducing a formal architecture function.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply the TOGAF ADM phases to plan and govern an enterprise architecture engagement
• Develop an Architecture Vision that links business drivers, scope, stakeholders and measurable outcomes
• Create baseline and target architecture views across business, data, application and technology domains
• Use stakeholder maps, concerns, viewpoints and views to communicate architecture decisions
• Perform gap analysis and classify Architecture Building Blocks and Solution Building Blocks
• Construct an Architecture Roadmap and Implementation and Migration Plan from architecture increments
• Establish architecture principles, governance checkpoints and compliance review criteria
• Organise architecture assets using the TOGAF Content Metamodel, Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Repository

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Enterprise Architects — who need a repeatable ADM-based method for leading cross-domain transformation
• Solution Architects — who must connect solution designs to target-state enterprise architecture and roadmaps
• IT Architecture Managers — who are establishing architecture governance, standards and review practices
• Digital Transformation Leads — who need to translate strategic change into coordinated capability and technology increments
• Data Architects — who need to position data architecture decisions within enterprise-wide business and application change
• Portfolio and Programme Managers — who must sequence investment initiatives against architecture dependencies and target states

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience of IT delivery, solution design, data, infrastructure, business analysis or technology change, and be comfortable discussing applications, integrations, data flows, cloud services and business requirements. Familiarity with basic architecture concepts such as current state, target state, stakeholders, requirements and roadmaps is helpful. Bring a laptop for live online attendance and for optional modelling exercises; no specialist software licence is required. Prior TOGAF study, ArchiMate knowledge, programming ability and formal enterprise architect experience are not required. Complete beginners to IT architecture should expect a demanding week and should review basic systems architecture terminology beforehand.

Training methodology

The five-day programme alternates instructor-led explanation of TOGAF concepts with short, structured architecture workshops. Using a single transformation case, participants define scope and stakeholders, draft views for each architecture domain, identify gaps, group work into transition architectures and test governance decisions. The instructor demonstrates how TOGAF artefacts connect, including catalogues, matrices, diagrams and repository assets, then critiques participant outputs against ADM intent. Each day closes with a practical artefact review, and the final session converts the case work into an application plan for a participant’s own architecture environment.

Course outline

Day 1: TOGAF context, architecture capability and ADM foundation

• The TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition structure and key terminology
• Enterprise architecture scope, domains and levels of abstraction
• Architecture Capability framework, roles and operating model
• Architecture Development Method phases and iterative cycles
• Preliminary Phase activities and Architecture Board responsibilities
• Architecture principles, principle rationale and implications
• Phase A Architecture Vision, business goals and value proposition

Workshop: Participants create an Architecture Vision and principles catalogue for a fictional enterprise transformation, including scope, sponsors, constraints and expected value.

Day 2: Stakeholders, content and business architecture

• Stakeholder Map Matrix, concerns and communication requirements
• Architecture viewpoints and views for different decision audiences
• TOGAF Content Metamodel entities, relationships and artefact types
• Business scenarios and business capability mapping
• Baseline and target business architecture development
• Business service, process, organisation and location catalogues
• Requirements Management process across the ADM cycle

Workshop: Participants build a stakeholder map, capability map and baseline-to-target business architecture view for the case organisation.

Day 3: Data, application and technology architecture

• Phase C information systems architecture and domain boundaries
• Data entities, data lifecycle and information exchange catalogues
• Application portfolios, application interactions and interface dependencies
• Technology architecture platforms, services and deployment environments
• Architecture Building Blocks and Solution Building Blocks
• Architecture patterns, reference models and reusable building blocks
• ArchiMate notation for business, application and technology layer views

Workshop: Participants produce linked data, application and technology target-state views and identify reusable building blocks for the case.

Day 4: Opportunities, migration planning and governance

• Phase E Opportunities and Solutions and work package definition
• Baseline-to-target gap analysis and gap closure options
• Transition architectures and architecture increment sequencing
• Phase F Implementation and Migration Planning techniques
• Architecture Roadmap, Implementation and Migration Plan and portfolio alignment
• Phase G Implementation Governance and Architecture Contract use
• Architecture compliance reviews, dispensations and change control

Workshop: Participants complete a gap assessment, define transition architectures and create a prioritised Architecture Roadmap with governance gates.

Day 5: Repository, change management and workplace application

• Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Continuum concepts
• Solutions Continuum and reference architecture reuse
• Architecture Repository structure and Architecture Landscape
• Phase H Architecture Change Management and change classification
• ADM tailoring for agile delivery, product teams and cloud adoption
• Integrating TOGAF with portfolio management, service management and delivery governance
• TOGAF and ArchiMate tool-supported modelling practices

Workshop: Participants assemble their ADM application pack, present its roadmap and governance approach, and write a 90-day plan for applying TOGAF in their organisation.

Tools & standards covered

TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition, ArchiMate 3.2, Archi, Sparx Enterprise Architect

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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