EDGY Capability Modelling Course Sept/Oct 2026

September 16 to October 26, 2026

Mondays & Wednesdays

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All 10 sessions will be scheduled from 4pm to 5:30pm CEST (Berlin, Paris, Rome)

Course Outline 

Welcome Session
Meet your instructors, your fellow students and discover the course materials.

Week 1: Capability Maps That Everyone Can Read and Own
What makes EDGY capabilities different from the usual IT-centred approaches? How do you name capabilities clearly enough that business and IT stakeholders immediately understand what they mean? How do you structure and describe a capability map for clarity and create it in a way that invites everyone to co-create, own, and use it?

Week 2: AI and Human Intelligence as Co-Creators
Which prompts work best in iterative, collaborative capability design? Learn how to combine AI assistance with the collective wisdom of people to build a capability map that actually gets used widely in your enterprise.

Week 3: Navigating People, Politics, and Power
Capability modelling creates transparency and inevitably surfaces sensitive territory, triggering political resistance. How do you navigate the human side: personal interests, change anxiety, and organisational politics? Learn how to involve business experts and managers, informed by the existing network of relationships and power.

Week 4: From Enterprise Purpose to Investment Decisions
How do you connect capabilities to enterprise purpose and strategy? How do you use them for benchmarking and investment decisions? And what does it take to make IT application portfolio management truly owned by the enterprise and not just the IT department?

Farewell Session: Validate, Celebrate, and Graduate
Conclude the course, celebrate your achievements, validate your capability map, and receive your certificate.

What will you learn?

• How to co-create a capability map that speaks to business leaders, not just architects
• How to use AI as a co-modelling partner throughout the mapping process
• How to connect capabilities to your enterprise's purpose — the missing link behind most failed maps
• How to engage co-creators from both top-down and bottom-up, so the map becomes shared ownership rather than your problem
• How to benchmark current-state capabilities and prioritise investments in a way that resonates with decision-makers
• How to use your capability map as a blueprint for a modular, adaptive organisation and for an IT architecture that finally makes sense to the business
• How to manage your application portfolio based on a widely accepted capability model

Who is this for?

This course is designed for Enterprise Architects and Senior Business Architects who:

• are frustrated with the limited impact their work has on business decisions
• are new to capability modelling, or already use it but struggle to get it adopted widely
• want a lightweight, inviting, open-source alternative to the prevalent EA frameworks
• are curious about using AI as a practical co-modelling assistant