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ODA – Managing the Digital Transformation (DT) Journey Practitioners’ Course

The Open Digital Architecture (ODA) offers a wide range of assets such as the Open APIs, the Business Process Framework (eTOM), the Information Framework (SID) and other key TM Forum assets including the Maturity Models (AI, CEM etc.), metrics, data depositories and complete set of transformational toolkits that can help any function implement the key changes and improvements within their organization.

The ODA Practitioners’ – Managing the digital transformation journey course is aimed at providing guidance on the practicality of embedding the ODA tools and the best practices into your digital transformation journey. 

The course crosses the divide between the ‘theory’ of modeling and practical, implementable projects. You will work through practical exercises using various techniques to achieve business outcomes such as Digital Maturity Assessment, Digital Transformation Vision, Functional Target Architecture, principles for digital transformation governance and architectural steering.

The training course is delivered by our expert trainers. It covers each part of the transformation journey and how the ODA tooling can provide insights and direction across the main aspects of the business, information, and implementation areas of ODA.

Level: Practitioner
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites:
Open Digital Architecture Overview
Business Process Framework (eTOM) Fundamentals 
Information Framework (SID) Fundamentals 
Functional Framework Fundamentals
TM Forum Open API Fundamentals 
ODA Component Fundamentals

Take this course in-person (onsite or virtual):

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for:

• Project team architects; Project leaders; Business analysts; Process designers, and senior technical team members responsible for executing and directing projects
• Those interested in a deeper understanding of the ODA, working through the main points at an overall system level utilizing the ODA tool and assets
• Those interested in gaining a better understanding of the relationship and interactions between each of the viewpoint areas of ODA

What will you learn?

• How the principles and concepts of the ODA and the associated assets relate to the DT journey
• When and how ODA can be used and mapped to the pillars of digital transformation
• What are the main concepts and steps to start the DT journey
• Best practices and examples of working through the steps of the DT journey using the ODA Framework
• Importance of managing the DT journey using program governance and architectural steering

Course Syllabus

1. Module 1 Addressing CSPs’ digital transformation challenges
2. Module 2 The ODA practitioner case study
3. Module 3 Main concepts and 8 steps to start the DT journey
4. Module 4 Prepare the DT journey: buy-in, strategy and assessment (Steps 1-3)
5. Module 5 Structure the DT journey: Business Platform Architecture (Step 4)
6. Module 6 Organize the DT journey: Identify and scope the initiatives (Steps 5-6)
7. Module 7 Plan the DT journey: dependencies, priorities and steps (Steps 7-8)
8. Module 8 Managing the DT journey: program governance and architectural steering
9. Module 9 Review & wrap up

Course objectives:

Each module covers a specific part of ODA and its interactions with the transformational journey or project. You will be able to:

• Describe the needs to transform and qualify the digital transformation dimensions
• Appraise the digital transformation metamodel artifact
• Examine the need for business architecture and enterprise transformation governance
• Examine how TM Forum’s ODA tooling orchestrates the digital transformation lifecycle
• Analyze how TM Forum’s ODA organizes and qualifies the digital transformation metamodel

Certification

A course attendance certificate is issued on satisfactory completion of the course. There is a knowledge certification exam also associated with the course material. Passing this exam counts towards the TM Forum ODA System Skill Path. Find out more here.