Lean Enterprise Architecture and Value Stream Course

Name: Lean Enterprise Architecture and Value Stream Design Course
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Apply lean value, flow, learning, decision, and governance methods to architecture work and build a practical improvement roadmap.

Lean Enterprise Architecture and Value Stream Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Johannesburg, Dubai, Jakarta, Phuket, Porto, London and more
Next session: 8 – 12 November 2026, Johannesburg
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Lean Enterprise Architecture and Value Stream Design Course is a one-week foundation course for architecture, transformation, portfolio, and governance functions, and participants leave with a Lean Architecture Improvement Roadmap. The course connects enterprise architecture value streams, architecture workflow management, set-based architecture design, Architecture Decision Records, and architecture governance guardrails to reduce queues and improve decision evidence. Agile Leaders Training Center presents lean architecture for technology-enabled organizations.

Who Should Attend

Enterprise architecture functions responsible for principles, target states, and portfolio alignment
Solution architecture functions responsible for options, trade-offs, and decision evidence
Business architecture functions responsible for capabilities, value streams, and stakeholder outcomes
Transformation and portfolio functions responsible for sequencing demand, investment, and delivery
Technology governance functions responsible for guardrails, technical debt, and architecture assurance

The course assumes participants contribute to architecture or transformation decisions, and it leaves framework certification, detailed software engineering, and solution-specific design outside its scope.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that coordinate architecture decisions across business and technology change.

Enterprise and solution architecture offices
Digital transformation and product portfolio functions
Financial services and telecommunications
Healthcare and public-service technology functions
Technology governance, risk, and assurance departments

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply lean value principles to architecture demand and stakeholder outcomes.
Analyze architecture workflow, queues, work-in-progress, and flow efficiency.
Use hypotheses and minimum viable architecture to front-load learning.
Compare set-based alternatives and document trade-off decisions.
Evaluate governance guardrails, technical debt, feedback, and architecture metrics.
Build a Lean Architecture Improvement Roadmap.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Define Lean Architecture Value

Customer and Stakeholder Value Definition Canvas
Enterprise Architecture Value Stream Map
Architecture Demand and Work-in-Progress Register
Architecture Workflow Queue Analysis
Lean Architecture Current-State Assessment

Day 2: Front-Load Architecture Learning

Architecture Hypothesis and Evidence Sheet
Minimum Viable Architecture Boundary
Architecture Runway Planning Board
Set-Based Architecture Option Matrix
Trade-Off Curve and Design Guideline Record

Day 3: Improve Decisions and Flow

Architecture Decision Record Structure
Decision Context, Alternatives, and Consequences Log
Architecture Kanban Board and WIP Limits
Flow Efficiency and Waiting-Time Measure
Architecture Visual Management Review

Day 4: Align Portfolio and Governance

Portfolio Value Stream Alignment Matrix
Architecture Governance Guardrail Catalogue
Technical Debt Visibility and Prioritization Register
Architecture Feedback Loop Design
Architecture Outcome and Flow Metrics Scorecard

Day 5: Practice Lean Architecture Improvement

Suggested Exercise: Map Architecture Demand and Queues
Suggested Exercise: Compare Set-Based Architecture Options
Suggested Exercise: Write an Architecture Decision Record
Suggested Exercise: Review Guardrails and Technical Debt
Capstone Exercise: Complete a Lean Architecture Improvement Roadmap

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on financial-service, telecommunications, healthcare, and public-service architecture cases.

Suggested activity: map stakeholder value, demand sources, handoffs, queues, work-in-progress, and evidence gaps in an architecture workflow.
Suggested activity: frame an architecture hypothesis, compare alternatives through set-based design, and record trade-offs before commitment.
Suggested activity: prepare an Architecture Decision Record with context, alternatives, rationale, consequences, status, and review links.
Suggested activity: connect portfolio priorities, governance guardrails, technical debt, feedback loops, and flow metrics in an improvement roadmap.

FAQs

Who suits Lean Enterprise Architecture, and what does it assume?

Lean Enterprise Architecture suits architecture, transformation, portfolio, product, and technology-governance functions. It assumes participants already contribute to architecture or transformation decisions, without requiring mastery of a specific enterprise-architecture framework.

How does Lean Enterprise Architecture differ from general enterprise architecture training?

Lean Enterprise Architecture focuses on value, workflow, learning, queues, decision evidence, and improvement. General enterprise architecture training commonly emphasizes domains, models, repositories, and framework structures.

What is minimum viable architecture in Lean Enterprise Architecture?

Minimum viable architecture defines the smallest architectural boundary and evidence needed to test a hypothesis, guide near-term decisions, and preserve learning before wider commitment.

Why use Architecture Decision Records in lean architecture?

Architecture Decision Records make context, alternatives, rationale, trade-offs, consequences, status, and supersession visible. They reduce repeated debate and support feedback without turning decisions into static documentation.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Lean Architecture Improvement Roadmap. It combines value-stream findings, workflow constraints, learning hypotheses, design alternatives, decision records, WIP controls, governance guardrails, technical-debt priorities, feedback loops, and architecture metrics. The roadmap changes fragmented architecture activities into a sequenced improvement effort linked to stakeholder value and portfolio outcomes.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Johannesburg	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Dubai	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Jakarta	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Phuket	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Porto	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Rome	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Amsterdam	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Paris	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Tokyo	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Addis Ababa	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Manama	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Cairo	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Amsterdam	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Nice	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Muscat	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 03, 2027 24 – 28 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000

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What does this course cover?

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Lean Enterprise Architecture and Value Stream Course