Educational Services

Executive Seminar Series:
Improving Business through Technology with Model Based Development

  • Measuring Information Technology Performance
  • Improving Business-to-Technical CommunicationsThe Agile Business - Are You Ready? Transitioning the Organization - A Five Step Program Enterprise Architecture for Business BenefitWhat's Wrong With My Business and Why?
  • Successful Efforts in Corporate Reuse

Introduction to Model Based Development (MBD):

  • Introduction to Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
    • The fundamentals of MDA
    • Compurationally independent models (CIMs)
    • Platform independent models (PIMs)
    • Platform specific models (PSMs)
    • Tool evaluation techniques
  • Applying MBD techniques for business benefits
    • To capture existing systems
    • To repurpose legacy systems
    • For new developments
  • Utilizing MBD within EA frameworks (e.g., Zachman, Federal Enterprise Architecture)
  • Dealing with multiple platforms (e.g., .NET, J2EE)
  • Structuring your organization to benefit from MBD
  • Reusable architecture through MBD
  • Includes hands-on workshop activities
  • 1, 2 and 5 day versions available

Introduction to Application Architecture:

  • Defining the Approach
    • Architecture vs. architectural style
    • Architecture views (4+1, RM-ODP, Gartner, etc)
  • Define the Problem
    • Business modeling
    • Modeling requirements with use cases
    • Managing requirements
  • Define the Solution
    • Business processing styles
    • Analysis models
    • Applying design principles
    • UML elements
    • Selecting/applying patterns, frameworks and components
    • Building for reuse
  • Leveraging the Results
    • Feedback loops
    • Abstracting and refining delivered artifacts
  • Includes hands-on workshop activities
  • 1, 2 and 5 day versions available

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture

  • What is Enterprise Architecture?
  • Component-based architectures and frameworks
  • Web services and distributed computing architectures (including J2EE & .NET)
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Model Driven Architecture (MDA) for the enterprise
  • Includes hands-on workshop activities
  • 1 and 2 day versions available

Custom Training

For clients who have interest in combining particular needs and their specific business domain. Contact M2VP directly.

MDA Immersion Program: