1. The Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum is a Minnesota-based organization dedicated to the understanding and advancement of the role and professional practice of Business Architecture.
We accomplish our mission by:
Promoting common understanding & standards
Facilitating opportunities to share ideas
Sponsoring education sessions and networking meetings to help connect like-minded people
We’re a thriving community of practitioners that gathers the 3rd Tuesday of every other month to meet each other, share ideas, solve problems, and learn from each other.
Join us!

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

3. 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. 

4. 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

6. Upcoming meetings
Join us! We’re a community of practitioners that has been gathering together the 3rd Tuesday of every other month since Our meetings are hosted by our community sponsors at their locations.
Target
September 15, 2015
Cargill
November 18, 2015
Metropolitan State University
January 19, 2016
Express Scripts
March 15, 2016
Thrivent
May 17, 2016
Trissential
July 19, 2016
Join The Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum linkedin group
Visit our website tcbaf.org
Join our new Meetup!

7. Board Members

8. 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 -
Contacts
Tim Jennissen
Linda Finley

9. 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

10. Programming Feedback Process
Inputs
Filters/Guardrails
Programming Topics
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

11. Capability Roadmapping
September 15th 2015

12. 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

13. What: Capability Roadmapping Working Group
New! Special Interest Group / Working Group
What: Capability Roadmapping Working Group
When: Wednesday October 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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?

17. 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?

18. 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

19. 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?

20. 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

21. Industry Tools – What’s Working??

22. 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!!