Enterprise Architecture Quarter

Solution Design Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the third of four lectures of Project Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

• The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise design, or, in other words, to concepts related to creating architecture for achieving enterprise goals; and
• The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Lecture outline

The predecessor lecture is Business Analysis Quarter.

• Product.
• System. A set of interrelated and interdependent parts arranged in a manner that produces a unified whole.
• Open system. A system that interacts with its environment.
• Closed system. A system that is not influenced by and does not interact with its environment.

1. Systems engineering.
   • Datapoint-device architecture.
   • Configuration management.
2. Informational architecture.
   • Graphic design.
   • Usability.
   • UX design.

• Action design. A change process based on systematic collection of data and then selection of a change action based on what the analyzed data indicate.
• Commitment concept. Plans should extend for enough to meet those commitments made when the plans were developed.
• Gantt chart. A scheduling chart developed by Henry Gantt that shows actual and planned output over a period of time.
• Load chart. A modified Gantt chart that schedules capacity by entire departments or specific resources.
• PERT activity. The time or resource needed to progress from one event to another in a PERT network.
• PERT event. End point that represents the completion of major activities in a PERT network.
• PERT network. A flowchart diagram showing the sequence of activities needed to complete a project and the time or cost associated with each.
• Organizational development. A collection of planned change interventions, built on humanistic-democratic values, that seeks to improve organizational effectiveness and employee well-being.
• Organizational development. Change methods that focus on people and the nature and quality of interpersonal work relationships.

The successor lecture is Project Implementation Quarter.