Professional Education Series | Introduction
Course access is delivered through the EPOSA learning platform and access is provided to you after enrolment — it is not granted automatically at checkout.
The Introduction to Enterprise Portfolio Architecture is a structured one-day programme designed for executives, leaders and professionals seeking to understand Enterprise Portfolio Architecture and the Enterprise Portfolio Operating System.
Through one connected enterprise conversation, participants explore the modern enterprise challenge, the enduring structures established through Enterprise Portfolio Architecture, the connected operational environment of EPOS, and how Enterprise Portfolio Architecture can be interpreted across different industries and organisations.
The programme establishes a common enterprise language through which executive, leadership and practitioner communities can collectively understand and discuss the enterprise, while providing an accessible foundation for further professional education or organisational application.
Who It's For
Designed for people who need a connected understanding of EPA and EPOS, including:
- Executives and senior leaders
- Portfolio and PMO leaders
- Enterprise and Business Architects
- Transformation leaders
- Programme and delivery professionals
- Strategy, governance and investment professionals
- Other professionals involved in understanding, planning and evolving the enterprise
The programme deliberately brings different enterprise communities into a common enterprise conversation.
What You'll Learn
By completion of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Explain the modern enterprise challenge addressed by Enterprise Portfolio Architecture
- Describe the enduring enterprise structures established through EPA
- Explain how EPOS continually operates those structures
- Understand how EPA is interpreted within different organisations and industries
- Understand the supporting EPOSA ecosystem
- Use a common enterprise language across executive, leadership and practitioner communities
Programme Structure
The one-day programme progresses through six connected conversations:
1. Understanding the Enterprise Challenge
Why Continual Enterprise Evolution creates the need for enduring enterprise structures and Connected Enterprise Operation.
2. Understanding Enterprise Portfolio Architecture
Enterprise Definition, Enterprise Core Capabilities, Enterprise Core Capability-aligned Portfolios, Enterprise Demand Objects and the Enterprise Portfolio.
3. Understanding the Enterprise Portfolio Operating System
How EPP, PDP, PDE and EPI operate around the same Enterprise Demand Objects through connected practices, artefacts and operational interaction.
4. Understanding Enterprise Interpretation
How one consistent architecture can be interpreted across different industries and organisations, including the development of an informed initial interpretation before organisational engagement.
5. Understanding the EPOSA Ecosystem
How knowledge, professional education, advisory, application and Framework Assurance support development of the discipline and organisational capability.
6. Continue Your Journey
How participants and organisations can continue through professional education, further exploration or practical organisational application.
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