Admission requirements
Not applicable
Description
This course is about the process and techniques to create an enterprise architecture for an organization. An enterprise architecture is an integrated design of the organizational structure, business processes, information systems and infrastructure of an organization. It represents a long term view, consisting of principles and models, that help organizations to guide the development of their ICT over a longer period of time.
The course follows a roadmap that starts with business and ICT strategy. Next to that, the subjects of strategic alignment and information management are treated. Finally, the development of enterprise architecture models and principles is treated. For the design of an enterprise architecture model, the ArchiMate language is introduced.
This course also addresses the concepts of a service oriented architecture. Service oriented architecture provides important theoretical notions for both enterprise and software architectures.
Throughout this course, practical cases will be presented to illustrate the application of architectures in practice. Students also work in groups on an assignment to learn applying the methods and techniques, partly during the lectures. This group assignment will be graded.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Understand the process and products of ICT strategy and the relationship with a company’s overall strategy
Understand the goals and value of architectures in the ICT strategy process
Understand the difference between enterprise architecture, software architecture and service oriented architecture
Model an Enterprise Architecture with ArchiMate, using the basic modeling techniques
Define Enterprise Architecture principles
Understand the concepts of a service oriented architecture, both in business and technical terms
Apply the presented methods and modeling techniques to a practical situation (a case description).
Timetable
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
MyTimetable allows you to integrate your timetable with your calendar apps such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and other calendar apps on your smartphone. Any timetable changes will be automatically synced with your calendar. If you wish, you can also receive an email notification of the change. You can turn notifications on in ‘Settings’ (after login).
For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
Weekly a 2 hour lecture.
Assessment method
1) Exam (75% of the course grade)
2) Group assignment (25% of the course grade)
The group assignment is done in groups of 4 or 5 students. Every student must participate in and contribute to the group assignment.
Every component must be graded with 5.0 or higher in order to pass a course. The average of all components has to be at least 5.5.
The teacher will inform the students how the inspection of and follow-up discussion of the exams will take place.
Reading list
The following textbooks are required
Enterprise Architecture at Work, Marc Lankhorst et el, Springer, Third Edition 2013 (ISBN 978-3-642-29650-5) or Fourth Edition 2017 (ISBN 978-3-662-53932-3)
SOA in practice, Nicolai M. Josuttis. O’Reilly 2007 (ISBN 978-0-596-52955-0)
The following materials will be made available online.a set of papers and articles
the slide handouts
Registration
From the academic year 2022-2023 on every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
Programme Co-ordinator: ms. Esme Caubo
Remarks
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There is only limited capacity for external students. Please contact the programme Co-ordinator