Fundamentals of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

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Overview

Fundamentals of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

Course Description

This course teaches the fundamental aspects of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), ways to think about enterprise architectures, and methods for expressing enterprise concerns and solutions using the UAF modeling language (UAFML).  After completing this training, participants will be able to construct UAF models, diagrams, and tables to communicate enterprise needs, concerns, and solutions.They will also be able to construct traditional Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) views using the new UAF modeling language.

Course Content

Session 1: Introduction, All Views, High-Level Concept, Enterprise, Strategy, and Capabilities 

  • Background to UAF
  • Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and UAF overviews
  • Introduction to the different views of UAF and its meta-model 

   All Views/Concept Diagram

  • High-level concept diagram
  • All views 

   Capability/Strategic Views (Part 1) 

  • Definition of capability
  • Architecture's role in supporting capability development and implementation 

Session 2: Capability/Strategic and Operational Views

   Capability/Strategic Views (Part 2) 

  Operational Views (Part 1) 

  • Operational Views
  • Operational structure
  • Generating operational built-in reports
  • Scenarios and constraints

Session 3: Operational Views and System/Resources Views 

   Operational Views (Part 2) 

  • Operational states
  • Personnel taxonomy 

   System/Resource Views (Part 1)

  • The Systems/Resources Views
  • Resource architecture and tracing to Operational Views
  • System connectivity and internal structure
  • System built-in reports 

 Session 4 System/Resource Views

   System/Resource Views (Part 2) 

  • Personnel and system processes
  • Systems functionality flow diagrams
  • System measures, metrics, and measurements
  • System constraints
  • System states and event trace diagrams  

Session 5 Standards and Personnel Views 

Standards and Technical Views 

   Personnel Views 

  • Personnel Views defining organizations, people, posts, competencies, functions, training, and changes over time
  • Presentation on personnel and the functions that they perform
  • Personnel measures and constraints – how personnel metrics define task efficiency and performance 

Session 6 Services Views 

   Services Views 

  • Using Services Views to define a set of service-oriented model-based requirements for systems that will provide a capability for the enterprise and tracing requirements to the implementing systems for trade-off analysis and ROI
  • Showing how services support systems specification and vice-versa

Session 7 Security Views 

   Security Views

  • Security Views are not a part of DoDAF, although they are essential to an enterprise and the architecture that defines it. Security Views provide a means of identifying risk throughout the architecture and how to mitigate it.
    • Overview of the Security Views and their main elements
    • How security processes support system functionality
    • Security constraints and parameters
    • How security is integrated into the architecture and how to implement it

Session 8 System Variants and Time 

   Creating a Phased Architecture 

  • UAF and time
  • Architecture variations and how it is both easier and more difficult using SysML

   The DoDAF/UAF Instance Model 

  • The UAF Instance Model – use of instances of the architecture to support the deployment views

   Project Views 

  • Ways in which UAF/DoDAF differs from SysML in its ability to define system variants and how they change over time to support capabilities (primarily driven by the project views, although it is inherent in forecasts, for example)

   Architecture evolution over time  

Session 9 Process, Traceability, and Transition to SysML 

   Summary and Transition to SysML

  • Review of the work that has been done on the architecture thus far
  • Addressing the process and how to transition to SysML and systems engineering of specific systems
  • Presentation-based curriculum, allowing students to ask questions and address any unfinished exercises
Requirements & Materials

Requirements

Materials

REQUIRED (Student must provide):

  • Personal or work laptop
  • Ability to access the internet
  • A license for Dassault Systèmes Cameo Enterprise Architect (trial version is acceptable)

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for system architects, enterprise architects, business strategy managers, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) practitioners, chief engineers, and lead systems engineers across industries.

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What You Will Learn

  • Disciplined and structured approach to enterprise architectures
  • Ten viewpoints and 12 aspects that make up UAF and provide useful viewpoint specifications, such as structure diagrams and connectivity tables
  • Construction of taxonomical, structure, and connectivity diagrams and their connections to process, state, and sequence diagrams
  • Development of traditional DoDAF views using the new UAF modeling language
  • Integration of Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and UAF models in enterprise architecture and MBSE
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How You Will Benefit

  • Understand different aspects of an enterprise architectures and their cross-cutting relationships.
  • Create holistic and complete enterprise architectures and related phase plans that meet the business' strategic goals and operations.
  • Communicate complex architectures to a wide set of stakeholders from chief organization officers, directors, and program managers to technical team leads, system architects, and engineers.
  • Understand the difference between enterprise and system architectures.
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