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Lessons

Lesson 1	Five Roles for Architecture Excellence
	This lesson gives you an overview of the five architect roles we believe are vital to an enterprise with ambitions to become electronically serviced and agile.
Lesson 2	The Software Architect and Business Processes
	This lesson is about a very important responsibility for most software architects. This responsibility is to understand the concept of business processes. It’s also about being able to talk about business processes in a business-like manner with the business architect, with business people, and with business managers.
Lesson 3	Software to Business Architecture Alignment
	This lesson is all about using a business architecture, with its business processes, its business information, and its business rules, as the foundation for a corresponding software architecture.
Lesson 4	Business Architecture - What Is It Really?
	Business Architecture is a reasonably new term. This is not true, however, of the responsibilities of the business architect role, or the tasks involved in it. This lesson describes what business architecture is, why it’s so important for the improvement of business functionality, and why it’s so important as a foundation for aligning the architecture of software to business strategy and high-level business goals. It also explains about the three major elements of any business system.
Lesson 5	Business Improvements Efforts
	This short lesson gives you an overview of a number of formal methodologies for business improvement.
Lesson 6	Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA)
	MSBA is a formal methodology for business improvement through improved business architecture, provided by Microsoft Consultancy Services. This lesson, the content of which has been evaluated and approved by the former head of the MSBA team, explains what MSBA is and how it can be used to improve the functionality of the business, and how its results can be used as a foundation for architecting service-oriented software solutions.
Lesson 7	Rummler-Brache Business Process Improvement
	This lesson is about the Rummler-Brache methodology for business process improvement. Possibly, this methodology is the oldest and most mature of the existing methodologies for the management and improvement of business processes. The content of this lesson has been evaluated by Rummler-Brache personnel and found to be a good representation of their methodology.
Lesson 8	Is the Enterprise Architect a Technical person?
	In this lesson you’ll learn about the tasks of the enterprise architect. In particular, you’ll learn about the development of this role from historically being a rather technical role to becoming a high-level business-oriented role with the overall responsibility for business architecture, software architecture, and technical infrastructure architecture, and for aligning all these architectures with business strategy.
Lesson 9	Aligning Software Architecture to Business Strategy
	The Business Strategy Architect Role is the most unlikely of our five architect roles. In fact, those playing this role will probably never think about themselves as architects, even though they provide architecture. In this lesson you’ll learn about the role, and how it is key to the alignment of both business architecture and software architecture to business strategy.
Lesson 10	Technical Infrastructure Architecture - Overview
	This is a short lesson about a role that is only indirectly involved in the architecting of software. Still, the infrastructure architect owns and is responsible for the technical infrastructure on which the software architect eventually will have his or her software deployed, so there is reason to look at this role from the perspective of the software architect, and this is what this lesson does.