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Objective : This first training aims at helping attendees understand the NATO NAF v4 concepts and how to efficiently use them to align systems and SoS (Systems of Systems) to organization's goals, changing strategies and tactics due to captured feedbacks.  

NAF v4 is based on the OMG's Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Views that have been compacted for the needs of NATO allies while its architecture development methodology ensures an efficient management of these NAF Views aligned to the 'Architecture Motivation Data' , the central entity of the NAF Methodology.    

Concepts and techniques explained during this initial course are progressively applied by the attendees using an end-to-end case study and different exercises in the 2nd part of the training.

Prerequisites : Knowledge in Modeling with UML, SysML or ArchiMate is beneficial but not necessarily required as each model based view of the architecture and its strategic alignment will be explained using examples on a case study.

Participant Profiles : Strategists, Enterprise Architects, System Architects, Business Analysts, System Analysts, System and Software Designers

Detailed Description 

• Introduction :  Model Based System Engineering Initiatives and Panoplies
• What is an Enterprise Architecture ?
• Why Architecture Matters ?
• How to describe an Architecture ?
• How Enterprise Architectures enable the Decision Making ?
• UAF and NAF : Aligning Strategies, Capabilities and System Resources for an Agile Decision Making and Execution
• What is inside the UAF and NAF ?
• How UAF and NAF work ?

   

• Using NAF in System Engineering

 

• Viewpoints and Views Definitions in UAF and NAF
• How the UAF / NAF fit with the System and Software Engineering Life Cycle ?
• Foundation for Architecting : Architecting Principles (Foundation for Best Practices)
• Main Architecture Processes, Architecture Governance and Styles
• Architecture Enablers and Architecture Life Cycle
• Domain MetaModels (DMM) : Needs for a Methodology to describe and develop them
• How does the NAF Methodology help to describe UAF Domains and Model Kinds (Subjects of Concern and Aspects of Concerns in NATO NAF v4 Grid) ?
• Managing the Architecture Motivation Data and Architecture Policy
• Architecting Stages, Architecting dynamics, Multi-tier architecting 
• Correspondences between NAF viewpoints and the ArchiMate metamodel layers / elements

   

• UAF and NAF Architecture Views

   

• The UAF Strategic View and the NAF Concepts View
• The UAF Operational View and the NAF Logical Specification View
• The UAF Services View and the NAF Service-Specification View
• The UAF Personnel, Resources and Security View and the NAF Physical Resource Specification View
• The UAF Meta-Data View and the NAF Meta-Data View
• Other UAF views : Projects, Standards, Actual Resources, Dictionary, Requirements, Summary and Overview, Information and Parameters

 

NAF Methodology for Aligning Systems to Desired Effects through NAF v4 Grid of Viewpoints using tools

 

• Overview of the Enterprise Architecting Activities, Domain Meta-Model (DMM), Stakeholder Concerns and Viewpoints using the modeling tool,
• How to ensure traceability links between domains (subjects) and model kinds (aspects) ?
• Meta-Data Viewpoints : How to correctly initiate description of the system of interest ? Where do we need to define the Enterprise Vision and Operational Missions using the modeling tool ?
• NAF (Strategic) Concepts Viewpoints : Alternatives to develop different aspects of concern using the tool
• How to ensure traceability between the Strategic Concepts and the NAF Service-Specification Views ?
• Description of the NAF Logical Specification Views and Traceability from NAF Service Views  
• Traceability between  Logical Specification Views and  Physical Resources Views
• Integrating the NATO's Federated Mission Network (FMN) Spirals by following a clear and traceable path 
• The above aspects of the framework will be presented step by step first based on Objectives then through their supporting Meta-Models and finally by focusing on their implementations with Cameo and Sparx EA

 

2nd Course : Practical Implementation of NAF v4 using Sparx EA tool or the Sparx EA NAF Plug-in - 2 days.

Objective : Helping attendees to learn how to put into practice the NATO NAF V4 concepts using appropriate exercices throughout an end-to-end case study  

Prerequisites : Having attended the 1st part of the training

• NAF v4 Concepts introduced in the first part of the training are presented step by step throughout an end-to-end case study using the Sparx EA Modeling Tool or Sparx EA NAF Plug-in  

• Attendees put into practice step by step the presented solutions by allowing traceability from Strategic Concepts Views to Physical Resource Views.

• They also experience how changes captured on the Physical Resource layer such as the need of integrating a pre-validated interface may realign all corresponding views.