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September 15, 2015 Hosted by Target Community Meeting September 15, 2015 Hosted by Target

Agenda 4:00 Networking/Refreshments 4:30 Business Update Board Updates Announcements 4:45 Target presents Capability Roadmapping – An essential aspect of managing your portfolio of capabilities is Capability Roadmapping.  The ability to communicate how key people, process, technology and data outcomes will be achieved is a core value proposition of business architecture.  Target Corporation will lead us through an interactive discussion on Capability Roadmapping. 

Business Update Welcome and Introduction Community News Social Media Platforms – Sharon Shakya Marketing/Communication – Jake Laabs Conferences and Associations – Tim Jennissen 2015/16 Programming/SIG Update – Jeff Dreher

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Conferences/Associations MACC15 – November 11 & 12, Please reach out to your network to promote MACC15 TCBAF community is a partner Reviewing Presenter Applications Reviewing Sponsor Applications Volunteer opportunities REGISTER TO ATTEND: Where to find more information? MACC Conference home page - http://midwestacc.com Contacts Tim Jennissen tjen500@yahoo.com Linda Finley finleylinda@gmail.com

People Process Tools 2015 Programming Schedule 2015 Theme - Maturing & Growing: Exploring how take your business architecture practice and sustainably grow its People, Process and Tools People Process Tools Productive Thinking Workshop ExpressScripts (March) Creating the right mindset for the practitioner The Persona of the Business Architect Thrivent (May) Exploring the background and skillset for a successful BA Sustainably Running & Growing your Practice Trissential (July) Understanding how to sustain your practice once it’s up and running Capability Roadmapping Target (September) Exploring how to create, leverage and govern roadmaps Approaching Tools for Success Cargill (November) Exploring how to get the right BA tool fit Tools Case Study (topic TBA) Metro State (January) Topic to be announced as we move into 2016

Programming Feedback Process Inputs Filters/Guardrails Programming Topics Input @ Bi-Monthly Meetings Must address 1+ customer segments No repeat content Even blend of people, process, tooling, best practice Alignment w annual theme Broad topic vs SIG deep-dive Others? Published on TCBAF.org Ideally annual programming topics Refreshed as topics get identified or tweaked Specific topics for next 1-2 months published on the site Question: how “locked in” do we want to be? TCBAF.org (Get Involved or Events) Industry Trends / Hot Topics SIGs Sponsor Input Survey Results Board Input Industry Events

Capability Roadmapping September 15th 2015

Outline of the problem/opportunity space for capability roadmaps Today’s Agenda & Desired Outcomes Meeting Agenda Outline of the problem/opportunity space for capability roadmaps Quick overview of the state of the industry Break-out activity Rolling up capability roadmaps to create an enterprise point of view Next steps – TCBAF Roadmapping Working Group! Desired Outcomes Volunteers for Working Group Ultimately a tookit that we can take back to the community

What: Capability Roadmapping Working Group New! Special Interest Group / Working Group What: Capability Roadmapping Working Group When: Wednesday October 7th @ 6PM Where: Kieran’s Irish Pub Why: Create a Capability Roadmapping Toolkit for the TCBAF Community Working Group Goals: Pilot a SIG / working group format for TCBAF (most likely 2-3 meetings on off months between now at the end of the year) Ideally a working group of 8 – 12 community members Share best practices of companies that are currently engaged in capability roadmapping Examine industry best practices that practitioners may have been exposed to Create a toolkit or set of recommendations to bring back to the TCBAF Community in early 2016

Enterprise Strategies Enabling Improved Strategy Execution Enterprise Strategies Codifying strategy for company-wide consumption Understand what capabilities will be required to deliver on the strategy Capabilities Impacted Understand what gaps / needs are required to realize the strategy (people, process, tech, data) Capability Gap / Needs Assessment Capability Roadmaps Roadmap how these capability enablers will be delivered over time Assumptions Problems that can be solved Value added “What is the question that you are trying to answer?” Deliver against capability roadmaps Project / Product Project / Product Project / Product App Arch Data Arch Tech Arch Solution Delivery Enterprise Arch Planning Measure the metrics and results to ensure the end-business outcomes were achieved Results Management

Enterprise Strategies Enabling Improved Strategy Execution – Common Artifacts Common Artifacts Enterprise Strategies Strategy Maps Chartering Documents Capability Framework Capability Heatmap Associated Mappings Capabilities Impacted Gap Assessment Epic Stories High-Level Requirements Capability Gap / Needs Assessment Capability Roadmaps Capability Roadmaps Application/Technology Roadmaps Assumptions Problems that can be solved Value added “What is the question that you are trying to answer?” Current State Blueprints Future State Blueprints Project / Product Project / Product Project / Product App Arch Data Arch Tech Arch Solution Delivery Enterprise Arch Planning Results Management Metrics / KPIs Dashboards

Industry Point of View Current frameworks (e.g., BizBoK, TOGAF) provide conceptual framing, but lack helpful templates – how do we leverage the best thinking out there?

Industry Examples – They Come in All Shapes and Sizes*!! *examples taken from the public domain Question: What are members of the TCBAF community leveraging? How are people solving this problem?

Break Out Activity (15 min) Assign a table facilitator Capability Roadmapping Break-Outs Break Out Activity (15 min) Assign a table facilitator Capture the types of problems that your organization is trying to solve with capability roadmaps List out the possible attributes that you want to see represented on a capability roadmap Capture thoughts on how these roadmaps could be leveraged and governed

Enterprise Roll-up of Capability Roadmaps Goal: Synthesize individual Capability Roadmaps to align on a direction and develop a consolidated view of outcomes across business capabilities aimed at guiding investment sequence and portfolio decisions over the next 2-3 years. Questions that can be answered with an Enterprise-level Capability Roadmap: Are we doing the right things? Are we doing them in the right sequence? Are we achieving the right outcomes? Is our plan aligned with enterprise strategies and corresponding initiatives? What are the collision points, dependencies, key decisions, constraints and trade- offs between initiatives? Where are we adding new capabilities and where are replacing like for like?

Enterprise Roll-up of Capability Roadmaps (continued) In supporting an enterprise roll-up, there may be multiple views that are required to satisfy different stakeholders Capability view: outlines major outcomes by business capability Key Initiative: outlines major outcomes by program Financial view: outlines which investments deliver which outcomes – with sizings Technology view: outlines the application and technology platform changes

Industry Tools – What’s Working??

Capability Roadmapping Working Group Next Steps Capability Roadmapping Working Group Meet-Up information for the October 7th Working Group at Kieran’s Irish Pub Share out of information that was collected today 1-2 more working sessions between now and the end of the year Report out on capability roadmapping toolkit or recommendations in early 2016 Next TCBAF Community Meeting – at Cargill in November MACC Conference on November 12th. If you haven’t registered yet, put this on your to do list!!