This part draws the boundaries: what EAM does and what it is not.

• EAM as the bridge between strategic enterprise planning and individual projects
• Delineation from IT, solution and software architecture, with the architect roles that go with them
• The four architecture domains of business, application, data and technology, plus capabilities
• Baseline, target and transition architecture, and an overview of the frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, BIAN, TM Forum Frameworx

The longest part of the curriculum and the methodical core of the module.

• TOGAF Architecture Development Method, capability-based planning and application portfolio management
• Business capabilities as the bridge between business and software architecture, related to domain-driven design
• Maturity, gap, impact and risk analysis, plus architecture principles and reference models
• Agility in EAM with Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Open Agile Architecture, plus the EAM repository and its metamodel

This part settles who in a company is allowed to take an architecture decision at all.

• Governance at three levels: corporate, IT and architecture
• The function, remit and composition of architecture boards
• Architecture guidelines, metrics and compliance monitoring, for example according to TOGAF
• Roles and responsibilities of enterprise, solution and software architects

The influence runs both ways, and this part gives that 200 minutes.

• How enterprise strategy, legal change and reorganisation shape your system designs
• Market, methodology and technology trends such as blockchain, microservices and cloud
• The feedback from architecture decisions such as microservices into processes and the organisation
• Cross-application concerns: integration, security, monitoring, transactions

To close, you discuss a real enterprise architecture with its advantages and drawbacks.

• At least one real EAM example is mandatory in every licensed training
• The type and shape of the example follow the interests of the group
• The curriculum marks this section explicitly as not examinable