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 a coherent whole of principles, methods and models that are used in the design and realisation of an enterprise’s organisational structure, business processes, information systems, and infrastructure. It represents a long term view that help organizations to guide the development of their IT over a longer period of time.
An important objective of enterprise architecture is to align the IT strategy with the business strategy and improve organizational efficiency and agility. Therefore the course also covers business and IT strategy, and strategic alignment. Following that the methods and modelling techniques for enterprise architecture are covered. We will use the ArchiMate modelling language to model an enterprise architecture.
In a group assignment, students learn to assess the strategic aligment in an organisation and apply the methods and ArchiMate modelling language in a practical case. This group assignment will be graded.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Explain the process and products of a business and IT strategy
Assess the business and IT alignment in an organisation
Explain the fundamental concepts of enterprise architecture
Reflect on the differences in concept and application between enterprise architecture and software architecture
Apply a structured method to develop an enterprise architecture
Design an enterprise architecture model in the ArchiMate modelling languange
Define sound enterprise architecture principles
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.
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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
12 interactive lectures (2 hours each)
Discussion and feedback sessions for the group assignment
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.
Both the exam and group assignment must be graded with 5.0 or higher in order to pass the 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 textbook is required
- Enterprise Architecture at Work, Marc Lankhorst et el, Springer, Fourth Edition 2017 (ISBN 978-3-662-53932-3)
The following materials will be made available online.
a set of papers and articles
the slide handouts
Registration
Every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to register your participation for every exam and retake.
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