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Architect training & certification “best and most relevant all round architect courses” “help you use TOGAF and other architecture frameworks.”	Training calendar, prices and dates Which architect certificates? BCS and/or TOGAF? Pre-course reading and work Training course list and descriptions Email to book via your “preferred supplier” or for information	ON AVANCIER TRAINING “I really enjoyed your course and [have since] found the material you presented very useful.” Solutions Architect “Really good and provided me with new views on EA and SA – one of the best trainings I attended.” Enterprise Architect “Your exam preparation really useful (a key objective for me).” Consultant “One of the few people I know who can articulate this area and subject in an understandable format.” Consultant “It is amazing how my conversations have changed! On Monday I had three conversations that [made me] realise the positive effect the course has had… many things I now understand that I had only the smallest glimmer of before.” Infrastructure architect. “thank you for an interesting and stimulating course. It covered a lot of what I was expecting and more, and opened my eyes to architecture questions and concerns I need to be more familiar with.... Your anecdotes and examples helped make what is often a dry subject more interesting... [it] really helped me to grab the fundamentals of what it takes to be an Enterprise Architect.” Business intelligence architect "[the training] explains what others (TOGAF, CMU…) leave obscure." More course comments ON THE AVANCIER WEBSITE "I have spent the last hour and a half on your website and wow!!!! It is a repository explaining so very many things MANY people ought to know and understand like clearer definitions of roles and general expectations of people who have (or claim) to be certain things." “A great asset to understanding of architecture, methodologies and many other things.” Correspondent  “Very impressive… as informative as it is comprehensive.” “Lots of good stuff here – thanks” Senior Managing Consultant “Comprehensive, clear and very well written, a significant contribution to the development of enterprise architecture.” Technical consultant "everything else I read on EA is mostly confused and confusing. Can’t anyone else… address the issues you raise and recognise the importance of what you’re saying?”
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Other architect resources Avancier’s distillations and explanation of popular architect resources.	Architect roles – an introduction On the value of EA & IT systems BCS reference model TOGAF’s definition of enterprise architecture TOGAF distilled + ArchiMate distilled + UML distilled + DoDAF distilled
Description and reality: System theory For academics: EA as an application of idealism and system theory principles.	System theory, thinking and thinkers System description in thoughts and words Human factors in management hierarchies Models & Rules entity & event model patterns
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