APG offers an integrated perspective for the business and technology landscape. A key factor in sustainability is recognizing the different process lifecycles within an organization, understanding how they are different, but at the same time, how they are related to one another.

Clearly identifying lifecycle integration touch points and handoffs is critical to long-term viability. APG provides a unique set of service and product offerings for the following capabilities:

• Enterprise Architecture: EA-In-A-Box™
• Systems Engineering: SE-In-A-Box™
• Solution Delivery: SD-In-A-Box™

Business Domain Experience

APG and our consultants have had numerous experiences over the last twenty years delivering world-class solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies in many different business domains.

Engagement Types

• Adoption of standard enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and solution delivery methods (e.g. TOGAF, OpenUP, INCOSE, Harmony, RUP)
• Adoption of standard modeling specifications – UML, SysML, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Business Motivation Metamodel (BMM), and others
• Creation of internal professional development programs and certification programs – TOGAF, ITAC, OCUP, OCEB
• Creation of domain- and organization-specific taxonomies (or metamodels)
• Acquisition and deployment of tools

Service Delivery Approaches

• Process improvement consulting
• Facilitated workshops
• Instructor-led training (ILT) and web-based training (WBT)
• Project coaching and mentoring
• Tool installation and configuration

Tool Experience

APG has found that most organizations need to adopt some sort of tooling in order to sustain their new practices. To this end, APG has formed partner relationships with many of the leading vendors in the architecture and engineering space. However, APG understands that it is critical to ground any new practice in process first, for without the appropriate context, "a fool with a tool is still a fool."