Sogeti provides the Architecture Master class for Pro Education. This is one of the five master classes for the program Master in Information Architecture. 
The students will be given insight into architectural thinking in the broadest sense during eight afternoon and evening sessions. Application of the material on their own situations and the exchange of experiences is an integral part of the course. 

The target audience consists of managers; advisors (consultants) and IT professionals with extensive experience. The master class concludes with a paper to be written by the students. 

The eight sessions have the following content:

Lesson 1: Background
- Why architecture:
   o    Business strategy and architecture
   o    Enterprise development
   o    Consistency and coherence
- History of architecture:
   o    From information planning to “dynamic architecture”
   o    Lessons learned

Lesson 2: Enterprise Architecture
- What is enterprise architecture?
- Domains of enterprise architecture:
   o    Business Architecture
   o    Organization Architecture
   o    Information Architecture
   o    Technical Architecture
- Examples of architecture:
   o    Descriptive vs. prescriptive
   o    Principles vs. models
   o    Scope

Lesson 3: Architecture Development
- Architecture development
- Architecture frameworks:
   o    IAF
   o    DYA
   o    Zachman
   o    Tapscott
   o    …
- Architecture levels
- Architecture development approaches

Lesson 4: Methods, Techniques and Tools
- Methods and techniques:
   o    ISP
   o    TOGAF
   o    MDA
   o    …
- Modeling languages
- Architecture tool use:
   o    When to use tools
   o    Advantages and disadvantages of using tools

Lesson 5: Working within an architecture
- Architecture in the organization:
   o    Relationship to the strategy definition process
   o    Relationship to the development process
   o    Relationship to the administration process
- DYA model
- Stake holders

Lesson 6: Architecture and IT Governance
- Relationship architecture and IT governance
- Perspectives:
   o    Accounting
   o    Business
   o    IT

Lesson 7: The Architect
- The architecture team
   o    Types of architects
   o    Tasks and responsibilities
   o    Skills and competences
- The position of the architect in the organization.

Lesson 8: A Professional Architecture
- Measuring the maturity of the architecture function
   o    Architecture Readiness Assessment
   o    Architecture Maturity Model
   o    Architecture Maturity Matrix
- Professionalizing the architecture function
   o    Change strategy
   o    Step by step improvement