Business Transformation Suite

Developing, maintaining and implementing enterprise architecture (EA) is essential for both organizational transformation and project and program management success. EA, when managed effectively, will optimize the relationships among your agency’s business operations and underlying information technology infrastructure. Even better, when performed in concert with capital planning and investment control (CPIC) and earned value management (EVM), it can greatly increase your success agency-wide.

To help you with the earned value part, simply click here to receive your Earned Value Formula Finder. Now you can find every EV formula you need in one place – at the turn of a wheel. And, when you need more than formulas, ESI offers the following Business Transformation Suite of classes:

• Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals
  Contract #:GS-02F-0058P
  This course gives you a hands-on overview of the EA process and the content and context of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). You will learn the language and tools associated with EA as it applies to strategic planning, CPIC, performance improvement and governance. You’ll also learn about evaluating EA maturity and developing strategies for dealing with EA implementation challenges. The course emphasizes leveraging EA to identify opportunities for mission/business alignment, modernization and transformation.
• CPIC and the Exhibit 300
  Contract #:GS-02F-0058P
  This course is designed for all federal employees who need to better understand the CPIC process, contribute data to the Exhibit 300 or actually prepare the Exhibit 300. It provides you with valuable insight into the importance of the President’s Management Agenda and the link to your agency’s strategic and IT capital plan. Through a hands-on case study, you will learn to recognize the significance of an investment’s total estimated life cycle costs. This case study will also teach you to appreciate the importance of the investment’s performance and adherence to security and privacy laws, as well as apply processes for planning, acquisition, Federal EA, alternatives analysis, risk management, and cost and schedule reporting.
• Applied Earned Value Management
  Available on the GSA Federal Supply Schedule
  Contract #: GS-02F-0058P
  This course offers you hands-on practice in the EVM processes and EVM metrics, including Estimates at Completion (EAC), as well as an overview of the EVM process from project development to execution. You’ll also learn EVM skills through exercises and a multi-part case study that takes you from EVM project baseline formation at the beginning of the project, through the challenges of ongoing assessments and reassessments of cost, schedule and performance to the project changes.