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EH2770 IT Management with Enterprise Architecture I 7.5 credits

IT-Management med Enterprise Architecture I

Previously, business operations of most large enterprises were supported by a number of isolated IT systems performing miscellaneous and specific tasks, from real-time process control to administrative functionality such as payroll and billing. In order to better achieve business goals, these systems have in recent years been extended, and more importantly, integrated into a company-wide system in its own right, the enterprise IT system. Due to its history, this system is composed of a considerable number of heterogeneous components interacting by means of equally diverse connectors. To enable rational evolution and design, where the business’s requirements are transformed into technically and economically beneficial IT systems, holistic enterprise architecture models of the system are a necessity.

The purpose of this course is to develop students' understanding of and ability for using enterprise architecture models to describe and design cost-effective IT system portfolios that also provides a good support to the businesses that are using them.

  • Education cycle

    Second cycle

  • Main field of study

    Electrical Engineering

  • Grading scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Course offerings

Spring 19 for programme students CANCELLED

Spring 20 for programme students

Intended learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course the participants should be able to:

  • With examples describe and explain the complexity in business operations and its IT support in large enterprises.
  • Produce understandable and realistic enterprise architecture models of organisations in a predefined modeling language.
  • Use enterprise architecture models (created in a predefined modeling language) to analyze the quality of different scenarios of business and IT-systems solutions.
  • Create simplified enterprise transformation plans for moving from a current situation to a future desirable state. 

In addition the participants should:

  • Have a basic understanding of how enterprise architecture is used in practice in organizations today.

Course main content

The course consists of, and is examined by, one main project assignment in which the students take on the role as the chief architect for a large enterprise’s IT portfolio. The organisation in question today has an IT-portfolio that is without governance structures and that is offering poor support to the business. The assignment is to suggest a future scenario of the business and IT-systems and to convince the enterprise’s CEO to conduct a transition project that implements the scenario.

The course contains the following knowledge modules:

  • The complexity of enterprises and the challenge for enterprise architecture.
  • Basic enterprise architecture modeling.
  • Enterprise architecture analysis.
  • Enterprise architecture transition planning.

Disposition

The knowledge modules are studied by the students themselves. Seminars and tutoring sessions are held by the teachers, as is peer reviewing seminars. The course also contain a number of traditional guest lectures with speakers from industry.

The project assignment is examined by a written report and an oral presentation. The assignment is done in groups.

Eligibility

Single course students: 120hp and English B or equivalent.

Recommended prerequisites

Knowledge from the following areas are beneficial: object oriented programming, computer communications and computer networks, software engineering.

Literature

Annonseras vid kursstart (en sammanställning av rapporter, böcker, artiklar, websidor och videofilmer)

Announced at course start (a combination of reports, books, articles, web pages, and videos)

Required equipment

A computer with Windows or Mac operating system with rights to install software.

Examination

  • INLA - Assignment 1, 1.0, grading scale: P, F
  • INLB - Assignment 2, 1.0, grading scale: P, F
  • PROA - Project Assignment, 4.5, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • SEMA - Lecture Series, 1.0, grading scale: P, F

The main examination in the course is a project assignment, which is also handed in preliminary halfway into the course. In addition an oral presentation is also examined as is attendance at lectures. The project assignment is done in groups. If there is a need to differentiate the grade between the group members examination is done by individual oral examination.

Requirements for final grade

All examination parts must be approved.

Offered by

EECS/Computer Science

Contact

Mathias Ekstedt

Examiner

Mathias Ekstedt <mekstedt@kth.se>

Robert Lagerström <robertl@kth.se>

Supplementary information

Replaces EH2020 Industrial Information and Control Systems

Add-on studies

EH2781 IT Management with Enterprise Architecture II, Case Studies

Version

Course syllabus valid from: Spring 2019.
Examination information valid from: Spring 2019.