Architecture design and modelling skills for IT Architects

This lecture provides a description of the course including how the course fits into the series of 12 courses that composes the "Become an IT Architect" program.

This lecture provides introductory information such as:

• What is the audience for this course?

• What does this course teach?

• What will I be able to do after I complete this course?

• What do I need to know before starting this course?

• How long does it take to complete the course?

• Where can I ask for help?

This lecture describes the objectives for the course.

This lecture provides information about the author of the course.

The IT Architect roles requires a significant amount of technical knowledge. This lecture describes what is the foundation of this knowledge and what is the best way to achieve it.

This lecture describes what is the technical knowledge considered prerequisite for the IT Architect role.

This lecture provides examples of technical knowledge required for Application or Solution Architects.

This lecture provides the description of the T-Shape personality and why it is important for the IT Architect.

This is an example of T-Shape Professional concept applied to an Application or Solution Architect.

The focus of this lecture is on how does the T-Shape personality concept apply to the business and technology domains.

This lecture discusses about how does the depth of knowledge for an IT Architect compare with the knowledge for the other IT roles such as developers, analysts, etc.

This lecture discusses the important topic of the "minimal depth" of knowledge required for an IT Architect in order to be successful in his/her job.

This quiz is testing the knowledge related to the T-Shape personality and why it is relevant for IT Architects

This lecture provides the definition of the architecture design skills and what is their scope for each of the IT Architect types.

This lecture provides more information about the foundation for the architecture design, including what are the key terms.

This lecture describes the main concepts of the architecture design and how they relate to each other.

This lecture provides you examples of the architecture design skills for different types of IT Architecture such as:

• Enterprise architecture

• Solution architecture

• Infrastructure architecture

This lecture provides a couple of examples of typical diagrams produced by Infrastructure Architects.

This lecture provides an example of a typical diagram produced by Business Architects together with an introduction to the basic concepts used by a Business Architect.

This lecture expands on the example from the previous lecture and provides an example of a typical diagram produced by an Application Architect to show how the application services (or APIs) automate/realize/implement the  business functions.

This lecture provides the introduction to the architecture modelling skills including a description of the foundation for the various architecture modelling languages.

This lecture describes the modelling languages most suited for business architecture.

This lecture provides the description of the main modeling language (EML) used by IT Architects such as Application, Solution or Technology Architects.

This lecture walks you through an example of an sequence diagram, explores www.uml-diagrams.org, a web site that contains tens of examples of UML diagram and discusses about the UML tools that you can use to create the diagram.s

This lecture provides the description of Entity Relationship diagram (ERD) as the main modelling language used by Data Architects.

This lecture walks you through an example of an ERD diagram.

This lecture provides information about Archimate - modeling language use primarily by the Enterprise Architect

This lecture walks you through some examples of Archimate diagrams.

This lecture provides guidelines on how to choose the most appropriate modeling language based on the type of IT Architect and the diagrams/documentation you need to produce.

This lecture focuses on the techniques to create the architecture design.

This lecture provides guidance on how to document the architecture including what views to select, how to document risks, structure and dynamic behavior, risks, etc.

This lecture applies the breadth vs. depth concept to the architecture design skills, architecture frameworks and modelling languages.

This lecture provides the description of the industry knowledge concept.

This lecture discusses in detail how does the industry knowledge concept apply to the IT Architects.

This lecture provides some examples of industry knowledge required for various IT Architects.

This lecture provides information on how the industry knowledge can be classified.

This lecture provides more information on how to use the industry knowledge to be a successful IT Architect.

This lecture provides the description of the business knowledge concept.

This lecture discusses how can the the student obtain business specific knowledge to become an IT Architect.

This lecture provides some examples of business specific knowledge required for various IT Architects.