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Rebuild & Blank-Page Drills

Part II — 3-minute rebuilds

T1 — Strategy bridge

Draw: Business Strategy → Data Architecture → Technology Execution

Add at least three architecture outputs and explain the arrows.

T2 — Four EA domains

Draw Business, Data, Application, Technology Architecture and one dependency/primary question for each.

T3 — Zachman header

Write the six columns from memory: What / How / Where / Who / When / Why. Explain why multiple perspective rows exist and write ontology, not methodology.

T4 — EDM stack

Rebuild enterprise conceptual → Subject Area → enterprise logical → project logical → project physical. Mark vertical and horizontal mappings.

T5 — Data flow

Draw a source-to-consumer flow and label at least: application/process, data store, CRUD role, location, and network/security context.

T6 — States and roadmap

Build current → gap/dependencies → roadmap/transition projects → target. Explain target vs transition.

T7 — Practice work streams + project influence

Reconstruct the five work streams and then list how architecture influences project Scope, Requirements, Design, Implement, Feedback.

T8 — Buy / Reuse / Build

Create a three-column decision table with trigger, architecture action, and main risk for each path.

T9 — Lifecycle statuses

Write all eight statuses and one-line meanings. Then circle Preferred, Emerging, Containment, and Retirement and explain the switch clue among them.

T10 — Governance + metrics

On one page, connect the four architecture governance activities to the three metric families.


Part III — 5-minute blank-page reconstructions

B1 — Full Chapter 4 skeleton

Reconstruct: definition → EA domains/frameworks → EDM/flows → practice/activities → current/target/roadmap → project integration → tools/techniques/lifecycle → implementation/culture → governance/metrics.

B2 — Four-way discipline comparison

Teach the difference among: - Data Architecture, - Data Modeling & Design, - Application Architecture, - Technology Architecture.

Use one Customer example and change the deciding fact for each.

B3 — Architecture artifact map

Show how EDM, Subject Area models, enterprise/project logical models, physical models, flows, data value chains, and the roadmap relate without pretending they are interchangeable.

B4 — Moving from current to target

Explain how a company moves from current architecture to target through roadmap sequencing and transition projects without losing enterprise alignment or ignoring business urgency.

B5 — Why great diagrams can still fail

Teach how an accurate, beautiful architecture can still fail because: - working methods do not use it, - governance does not enforce/approve exceptions, - projects do not reuse it, - culture remains local/application-centered, - executives contradict it, - metrics do not demonstrate value.

Compression teach-back

5 minutes: teach the full chapter.
2 minutes: keep only the major discriminators and implementation logic.
30 seconds: state the professional rule: architecture connects enterprise need, blueprint, project execution, governance, and behavior so enterprise data evolves coherently.

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