In our hands-on 2-3 day DoDAF workshop you will use a comprehensive methodology for designing operational, technical, and systems architecture views and products consistent with the DoDAF guidelines. In the workshops, you will apply DoDAF compliance concepts and principles to design your own DoDAF-compliant system. You will use the most up-to-date tools and techniques for creating and evaluating required architectural products. You will learn strategies proven successful for saving time while avoiding costly pitfalls when meeting DoDAF requirements.

New DoDAF 2.0 focuses on architecture data rather than on developing individual products. It achieves this by planning, developing, managing, and governing architectures through a coherent, structural model.

1. FEA Advanced Policy
1. Federal Transition Framework
2. Performance Improvement Life Cycle
2. Federated Architectures
3. DoDAF 1.5 and Beyond
4. DoD Architecture Registry System
5. Specific views or topics to demonstrate

• To demonstrate the practical application of the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF)
• To provide hands-on experience leading to learning how to develop complete, defensible architecture based on the DoDAF
• To be coupled with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
• To meet the requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA)
• To understand and master DoDAF 1.5/2.0

Attendees of this seminar will:

• Have seen the purpose, definition and context of every DoDAF product
• Have a working knowledge of a DoDAF project management methodology proven to be successful
• Have participated on a DoDAF project team developing products essential for an integrated architecture and necessary for the JCIDS and the NCOW

Wizdom's 2-day seminar covers the following:

1. Part 0: DoD Architecture Framework, Re: The FEA
1. FEA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Holy Grail
2. Component Based Architectures (CBA) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
3. DoD Mission Areas
4. A successful DoD version of FEA – the BEA
5. Clinger Cohen Act (CCA)
2. Part 1: What is the DoDAF
1. Examples of Architectures
2. Architectures and the DoD
3. DoD Architecture to DoDAF History
4. DoDAF: Philosophy, Concepts, Definitions, Products, & Processes
5. One Architecture – Three + One Views
6. Analyzing DoDAF Products and Relationships
7. Each View – Specifies Products and References
8. How Is the DoDAF Likely to Evolve?
3. Part 2: Meeting the Requirements of the DoD Architecture Framework
1. Second Look at the DoDAF Views — Operational, Systems, Technical Standards, All
2. DoDAF V. 1.0 Products Listing
3. Architecture Use in DoD Requirements, Acquisition, and Budgeting Processes
4. How Architectures Support the POM Directly
5. Official DoD Acquisition Video
6. The DoDAF Design and Approval Process and How Your Organization Can Obtain Approval of its Architecture
4. Part 3: DoD Architecture Framework Development Process
1. What's Important in the Desk Book Six Step Architecture Development Process
2. Basic Principles for a Successful DoDAF Project
3. Planning and Scheduling for Architecture Development — Scope of Efforts and Evolution of Products within the Program Life Cycle
4. Analyzing Inter-relationships between Operational Systems and Technical Architecture Views
5. Architecture Governance and Maintenance
6. What is the Relationship of Architecture to Enterprise and System Life Cycles?
7. Security issues
5. Part 4: Defining DoDAF Products and Tailoring Framework Requirements
1. Guidelines for Selection of Products
2. Key Tailoring Flexibility Guidelines
3. All View (AV) Products
4. Operational View (OV) Products
5. Systems View (SV) Products
6. Technical Standards View (TV) Products
6. Part 5: Building DoD Architecture Framework Products
1. A JCIDS Video Says Much of Unit 5
2. Tools and Techniques for Creating and Evaluating Required DoDAF Products
3. What about 5000, 3170, and 6212 Instructions?
4. Step-by-Step Guidelines for Complying with the DoDAF's Requirements
5. Baselining the Joint Environment: Joint Architectures (DISR, JOA, JSA)
6. Insights on IER's — Required Fields, Level of Detail & Roll-ups
7. Coping with IER's — Required fields, Level of Detail and Roll-ups
8. Getting Results with KPP's — Isolating a New System's Performance and Defining MOP's
9. KPI's – the Forgotten Link to CCA
7. Part 6: DoD Architecture Framework Design and Development Tools
1. Mapping Processes, Tools, and Repositories
2. Architecture Design Software Applications
3. Tool and Repository Application Selection Criteria
4. Databases: "Essential" for Integrating Architectures
5. CADM and DARS — the Future DoD Common Architecture Database Environment
6. In Reality, When Looking at the "AV-2, Integrated Dictionary" Essential Product, a Database Becomes Necessary to Work with All the Data
7. The Core Architecture Data Model (CADM) Provides an IDEF1X-based Schema for this Database
8. Part 7: Advanced Architecture Modeling & Analysis
1. Systems Engineering, Re: the DoDAF
2. Structured Analysis
3. Applying the Proven Minimalist DoDAF Methodology
4. Reuse DoDAF Product Data in a Consistent Manner
5. Understand and Apply IDEF, Tables, Text and UML to Develop DoDAF Products
6. Using IDEF to Establish Context, Purpose, and Viewpoint
7. Using a Consistent UML Syntax to Build DoDAF Products
8. Building the DoDAF Products Efficiently
9. Part 8: Preview of DoDAF 2.0
1. "Architecture with a Purpose"
2. It's the Data, Stupid, or Is It?
3. What is an Overlay?
10. Part 9: Build a DoDAF that Will Get Me What I Want
1. Hands-on Exercise for Building an Architecture Using the Proven Wizdom Minimalist Methodology
11. Part 10: Packaging and Selling your Architecture
1. Who is the Target Audience?
2. What Questions Will the Audience Ask?
3. What Formats and Information Have You Been Told to Use?
4. What Formats and Information Might Be Useful to Better Communicate the Architecture?
5. How Can You Show That your Architecture Provides Value?
12. Part 11: Summary
1. Topics Covered
2. Questions
3. Discussion

Wizdom's optional third day will include:

• Solving your real world problem
• Applying principles learned to your real world situation
• Applying the proven "round trip" test of your architecture
• A complete handbook to the DoDAF process
• Examples and exercises of successful framework design
• Answers to creating associated work products of the AV, OV, SV, and TV's
• Proven methods for getting your framework design approved