Yes, we will be doing the doctrine of redemption and sanctification today, this is like a follow-up after having done the doctrine of salvation and regeneration. So in the moment of salvation, we are regenerated, we are born again into a new creation. And along with that comes a whole set of privileges because now we have been born into the kingdom of God. So once we have made our entry into the kingdom of God, along with that we gain a whole lot of divine privileges and we gain spiritual blessings which we did not have earlier. So in that context, we are also granted redemption and sanctification. So we will be looking at these two concepts in greater detail today. So just to get started on the doctrine of redemption, if we could have someone read out from the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 5 verses 9 and 10. Revelation 5, 9 and 10. Revelation 5, 9 and 10. And they sang a new song saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and pupil condition and have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth. It says over here that Jesus Christ has purchased people from every tribe, from every language, from every people, group and nation. So it talks about how he had to purchase them with his blood. Why was it necessary for him to purchase people with his blood? And we are kind of familiar with this, but let's look through the background in greater detail so that we have a clarity of what we mean when we talk about Jesus purchasing us with his blood. So as we all know, Adam and Eve, they were under what law? Were they under the mosaic law? The law of Moses did not exist at that time. Adam and Eve were under the law of God himself. And in fact, the Lord had only one law for them. Of course, they had, there were positive laws in the sense they were meant to take care of the garden. They were meant to, you know, attend to the creatures that had been created on their behalf. They had all of those laws, but when it came to, you know, restrictions, there was only one law. They were not supposed to eat of that tree, you know, the fruit of that particular tree of knowledge. So they were under the law of God. And when they broke that law of God, basically two things happened in us. They were spirit beings who were connected to the God. And so they were spiritually alive because they were connected to him, but they lost their connection with him. They were separated from him when they broke his law. And so in that sense, they became dead spiritually. And when they did that, Satan was able to take advantage of them as long as they were completely under the covering of God. Satan did not have any kind of control over them.  So he had no chance to come anywhere near them as long as they were under the covering of God. But now that they have separated themselves from God. Now the bully can attack. Now he can take advantage of them. So they kind of exposed themselves to the work of the evil one, which is what we see described in our Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 and 2. If we come and read out for us Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1 and 2. And he made a life who worked in trespasses and sins, in which he once walked according to the curse of this word, according to the prince of the power of the air. The spirit who now works in the sense of disobedience. In these two verses, we see these two aspects that we touched upon. We see that they were dead, spiritually dead all people because of what Adam and Eve did. They were born spiritually dead in their transgressions and sins. And another thing that we notice about these spiritually dead people is that the ruler of the kingdom of the air, which is basically the devil, he is at work in them. He can interfere in their lives. He can take advantage of them. So we see these two factors operating in all human beings. So in that sense, they seem to have become slaves. God did not formally turn them over to the bully and say, okay, now you can have them. No, but they chose to come out of the covering of God's protection. And they were separated from God because they were now law breakers who had broken this law. So when they were separated from him, then Satan was able to take advantage of them, take control of them because they are now in this exposed condition. So it's not like as if legally Satan was given any authority. He grabbed it. He took hold of the authority because now he was in a position to attack. He was in a position to take over. So if we look later on, much later, God decides to give his written law to Moses. So the written law is given to Moses and the Israelites are asked to follow this law. So the Israelites, as they continue down the generations, which law are they breaking now? They are breaking the law of Moses. That's the law which is getting broken. But what about all the other nations around them who have not been given the law of Moses? They too are breaking the law of God and they are the breaking the law which is just written on their hearts. All human beings are programmed with these basic moral absolutes. They all know that certain things are wrong and that certain things are right. So the rest of the nations may not have been breaking the law of Moses, but they are still law breakers. Why? Because they are breaking the law which God has written out in their hearts. This is basically what is explained in Romans chapter 2 verses 12 to 15. So if we could have someone read out Romans chapter 2, 12 to 15. It talks about the two categories of people, the Jewish people and the Gentile people and the way in which each of them is breaking the law. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law. For not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the law by nature do the things in the law, these although not having the law are allowed to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness. And between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them. Alright, so it very clearly explains over here that the Jewish people are law breakers of the mosaic law. On the other hand, the rest of the Gentile peoples, they also are law breakers. They are not breaking the mosaic law, but they are breaking the law which God has programmed into their hearts. The law which is written in their hearts, even though they know it is good, they are breaking it. So in this sense, all the people groups of the world, whether they are Jewish people or whether they are Gentiles, all of them are now exposed to Satan and his work. So they are now under the working of the ruler of the kingdom of the air. So everyone has now come under the control of Satan. So in their heart, in their spirit, they are slaves of sin. Sin is making them sin and they have no control. Some of them are able to resist to some extent, but nobody is able to keep the law of God perfectly because they have become slaves of sin. They are enslaved in their spirit and moreover, they are being controlled by Satan. So it's basically sin and Satan which have gained control over them because of their separation from God. So in that sense, these people are all slaves. So what Jesus does is, he sheds his blood and like we saw in the Revelation passage, he has now purchased all of these slaves in the sense, he is trying to set them free from the sinful nature which has been controlling them so far and plus he is also trying to save them from this control of Satan which has come upon their lives. So Jesus is purchasing these people. So if we were to take this example a little further and we were to think about Jesus Christ shedding his blood, making the payment of blood to buy the people, whom is he making this payment to? Is he making the payment to Satan or is he making this payment to God? Who is actually the legal owner of the human beings? God is the creator. All human beings belong to God and God gave them his law and Adam and Eve broke that law. So Adam and Eve chose to separate themselves from the Lord but legally speaking, human beings still belong to God, isn't it? They never ever were legally belonging to Satan. Satan took advantage, he was the gangster waiting in the sidelines and the minute he could gain control, he gained control but he was never the legal owner of the human race and so you see when it says that Jesus purchased, when he talks about Jesus paying the ransom, the ransom was paid to God because God is the one under whose anger and judgment the human race is now living. It is God who has been betrayed in that sense. God trusted Adam and Eve but instead of being loyal to him, they chose to rebel against him. So it's basically God who is angry, it is God who wants to bring judgment and at the same time of course it's beautiful, the beautiful thing is that God is also the one who wants to save so he has sent his son to be able to achieve that. So Jesus pays the ransom to God and that is why it talks about, it refers to what he did as the atoning sacrifice and those of you who are reading NKJV, you would see the word propaciation. That's basically Jesus Christ atoning for what has been done. He is making the payment and saying, God, you have been angry with the human race but now I have taken that anger and that judgment upon myself and so with my blood, I am now purchasing these people so that they can be set free from the control of sin and Satan. So Jesus has paid the ransom to God and therefore now God is no longer angry with those people who come under the covering of this blood. There are many people who choose not to make that choice. They say, no, we don't need Jesus Christ, we can manage on our own so the blood of Christ, even though it has been shed even for such people it will not apply to them because they do not want that free gift. It's a free gift you have to choose. So there are people who do not make that choice but for everyone who makes this choice to accept the free gift of the shed blood, all such people, God is now at peace with them because the judgment which was supposed to come on the people has been atoned for, the payment has been done. So when we are talking about this word redemption we are thinking about all of these aspects. So it's good for us to understand what we mean when we talk about us being a redeemed people. These are the background factors to keep in mind when we talk about being redeemed. We have now been redeemed from the control of sin from the working of Satan and we are no longer under the broth of God. We are no longer separated from God.  These are all the spiritual dimensions involved in the Redemptive Act of Jesus Christ. So coming more specifically to some very specific points which are mentioned in your notes I have not taken them in the same order but just to touch upon those things. So we are very, very specifically redeemed from the law and maybe we could read out a couple of verses which talk about that. Galatians chapter 4 verses 4 and 5 if someone could read out. But when the fullness of the time had come God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons. So it says here that we were redeemed from under the law. I thought we were redeemed from sin and from Satan so why is the law poking its nose in over here? What is it saying over here? You see the law declared that once our law the law of God is broken and we no longer are following the law but we are rebelling against the law then the anger of God the judgment of God is upon us. That's basically what the law declares. The law declares if a person breaks even one single law of God even one single time then automatically they are under the judgment of God. That is the declaration which the law makes. The law is a good thing. The law is a godly and holy thing and the law declares even if a person breaks one single law of God even one single time automatically they are under the judgment of God. So in fact the entire human race came under that judgment and so we all were literally under judgment no hope, no future, no hope of any kind of rescue and then Jesus Christ steps in and he rescues us from under that declaration which law has made. So you see in that sense we are redeemed from under the law. The law had declared that we are now under the judgment of God and we were redeemed from that declaration from that judgment which the law had passed against us. So we were redeemed from that and then if we can also look at Galatians 313 which talks about something very similar Galatians 313. So here it says that we are not just redeemed from under the law it also says that we are redeemed from the curse of the law. So that's basically what we looked at just now the judgment which the law has passed against the human race that is basically like a curse because the law has declared that even if one single law is broken even one single time then the curse comes upon them. What is the curse?  So the law, the judgment which the law has passed is actually almost like a curse which has come upon the people who have broken the law and so Jesus Christ hangs there on that tree because all crosses were made out of wood, out of trees which is why they say he who is hung on a tree so they would take a tree they would chop off the branches they would just use the main trunk and they would use that for the cross. So Jesus Christ was hung on that tree and even as he was hanging over there all of this anger and judgment which has been declared by the law all of these curses which the law has spoken upon the law breakers all of that was released upon Jesus Christ he became the curse we should have been hanging there that should have happened to us but rather the curse comes upon him so we have been redeemed from under the law and we have been redeemed from the curse of the law and so over here the word that is used in these verses is that Greek word exagorazo so when we look to the revelation passage the basic word the basic word for ransom that would be agorazo so agorazo is the Greek word A-G-O-R-A-Z-O agorazo is the basic word which talks about something being purchased so in Revelation 5 we saw that Jesus Christ purchased us with his blood he agorazo us so agorazo is basically a shopping term so when you go to the mall and you buy yourself a new t-shirt you are basically agorazoing the t-shirt you are purchasing it it's something that you are purchasing but sometimes this word was also used in a deeper sense it's not just you buying a commodity or a product you are actually buying back something which belong to you so in that sense something is being redeemed for instance for some unknown reason let us say the people at the mall they have taken hold of your t-shirt now they are saying they are holding it now you want to buy that back so you are not just simply going to the mall to buy a new t-shirt you are redeeming the t-shirt which they have taken control of so then in that deeper sense agorazo is also used and so just to make that more clear they kind of came up with this extra Greek word which would be agorazo so these are all just the final details regarding the Greek and I don't know much Greek anyway so so over here the sense that is being brought out is you are not just purchasing something you are purchasing back you are redeeming you are taking back what once belonged to you so the human race was God's children they were part of his family is what he had originally wanted for Adam and Eve so now he is buying them back to himself in that sense so that term agorazo is used over here in both of these verses Galatians 4 and Galatians 3 so what exactly have we been bought back for what has been achieved through this buying back if we could read out Romans chapter 5 verse 11 and not and not only that what we also read out in God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have now received the reconciliation yes it says over here we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have now received reconciliation so what have we received when Jesus Christ purchased us when we were bought back what did he buy us back for he bought us back for this thing called reconciliation the greek word that is used for that is katalage or however on earth you pronounce that it's there in your notes I'm pretty sure it's there in your notes so that basically that word is saying again it's a kind of what we can tile term so it's talking about money changers who would basically use this word let's use the example let us say of people who would come from all over the world on pilgrimage to Jerusalem year after year so you would have these people who have settled down in Babylon who have settled down in Egypt they never came back when the exiles return back they didn't return back with the exiles they continued living in those places but once a year at least they will make sure that they come to Jerusalem to the temple and make their offerings because they are still following Yahweh their commitment is still towards Yahweh so at least once a year they would come from all of these other places to Jerusalem to offer their sacrifices so when they come over here from another place the coins in their hand are the currency of another nation the currency which is used in those areas is the currency they would be holding in their hands but the currency which is being used over here in Jerusalem right now would be the Roman coins, the Roman currency so they would basically go to the money exchange guy and the money changer he would take this foreign currency from them and he would give them an equivalent amount whatever you have in the Roman currency of Jerusalem he would give them the equivalent amount we do that right even today you want to go abroad you want to go to Japan so you would exchange your rupees and you would get an equal amount of the Japanese currency an equivalent amount would be given to you that is basically your Katala where there is an exchange of equivalent values so what Jesus Christ has done for us to whom we have now received reconciliation so Jesus Christ paid by taking upon himself the anger of God the wrath of God, the judgment of God all that was released upon him and in the exchange the favor of God the the acceptance of God which was there upon him earlier that he gave it to us it was like an exchange he took the anger which we should get and we were given the favor which he had so there was a kind of reconciliation there was a Katala process which took place because of what Jesus Christ did for us so now no longer is God's anger upon us it was put upon him and the favor of God which was upon him was given to us we were able to become partakers of the favor of God and the peace of God is now with us God is no longer against us so we see that in Romans let's look at another term that is used for redemption if someone could read out Colossians 1 13 and 14 Colossians 1 13 and 14 he has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed into the kingdom of the son of Islam and in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins so over here the word used over here for redemption is another complicated word apolutrosis okay so now this word has a slightly different meaning you are not just redeeming something after having purchased it you are now releasing it you are setting it free in that sense so let us say you see a bunch of pigeons in a cage in a cage somewhere no one would buy pigeons they are all over the place anyway so let us say daus some daus and you want to release them so you purchase them after having purchased them what do you do you go out to the park and you release them so what you are actually doing would be apolutrosis so this is what Jesus Christ did for us he took us from this domain of darkness we were stuck we were slaves of sin and we were stuck in the kingdom of Satan in the domain of darkness so Jesus Christ he purchases us out of that kingdom and he releases us into a new kingdom into the kingdom of the sun where we will have new rights new privileges and entirely new way of life so apolutrosis happened for us when we were transferred we were set free from one terrible kingdom and we were released to be free into another kingdom the kingdom of the sun let us look at another word for redemption which is also actually derived from the same lootrosis root word so if we could read out 1 Peter 1 18 and 19 1 Peter 1 18 and 19 so here it says you were redeemed from the empty way of life so we were redeemed from the domain of darkness and we were released into the kingdom of the sun why so that we will not continue having that old lifestyle that empty way of life which we led when we were in the domain of darkness that should no longer be our lifestyle because you know this word intro is talking about being released, being set free so we were purchased from one kingdom and released into another kingdom not just for us to be over here but also to get away from the old way of life so over here we see that it says you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors generation after generation had been living in sin living in a way which will lead to no destination it's empty a way of life in the sense it doesn't result in any reward it doesn't lead to any any fruit it's just an empty meaningless way of life you just end up losing all your days you end up wasting all of your energy on something which has no eternal results and you gain nothing at the end of it so it's an empty way of life so Jesus Christ has not only brought us out of that domain of darkness he has now released us into the kingdom of the sun so that we can have a new way of life so that we no longer need to live according to the old empty way of life that we led earlier coming to another verse which talks about redemption so we have been redeemed from an empty way of life what else have we been redeemed from? Titus chapter 2 verse 14 Titus 2 who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless need and purify for himself his own special people zealous for good works okay so he has also redeemed us you know released us set us free for another purpose to set us free from an empty way of life and also to set us free from all lawlessness all wickedness and what kind of people are we supposed to be? people who are his very own eager to do what is good so earlier when we were in the domain of darkness there was no real desire to do what is good what is righteous and holy but now we have been set free from that empty way of life so that now we will be eager in the same way we used to be eager for sinful things now we are meant to have the same kind of eagerness for godly things so this whole redemption thing was meant to achieve something more than just setting us free you see we are being introduced to a new way of life and if we don't embrace that new life which is being offered to us the whole redemption is just wasted we choose to continue living in the old empty way of life what has been achieved what has been accomplished all we are doing is we are spitting on the one who has redeemed us and that should not be right so he has set us free so that we can joyfully get a new start with a clean slate where we can walk into new things where we can enjoy an entirely new abundant life that he has for us that is the whole point of redemption and if we don't embrace those things and we continue living in the past it would be a rather pointless thing for us to do so that is why redemption the word redemption is used in so many different you know senses to bring out different aspects so that we will actually catch what redemption is really about what it is meant to accomplish and so we need to make sure that we are really making use of this redemption that Jesus Christ has done for us let's look at one more scripture Galatians chapter 1 verses 3 and 4 Galatians 1 3 and 4 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver as from the present according to the will of our Father God and Father that God has redeemed us from that he has rescued us from it is the present evil age that we are living in people who are under the control of the ruler of the air he can do anything that he wants to to them you know he can harm them of course even there are limits that God has set he cannot cross the limits which God has set but he is able to interfere in their lives to a greater extent able to bring destruction into their lives to a greater extent but we have been redeemed we have been redeemed and rescued from this current evil age so you know if you ever find yourself in a time of trial and difficulty where the world is really harming you and your family you can always go to the scripture and say Lord we know that based on scripture what you have said you have said that you have rescued us even from this current evil age that we are living in so therefore our redeemer Lord please you know help my family help me in this situation where this current evil age is attacking me and my family this is a claim that we can make in front of the Lord because he has made this promise to us that as part of his redemption package he has also redeemed us from this current evil age now I am not saying that anything absolutely nothing bad will ever happen to us nor am I saying that you know we will not suffer persecution because Jesus Christ himself said that there would be trials and difficulties but what does he say? he says take courage because I have overcome the world he says so yes there would be hardships there would be persecution but the Lord says I who have overcome the world I can help you in these things so I will guide you and your family through these situations so his strength will be there his help will be there so these are things that we can actually claim for ourselves coming to one more scripture Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 15 inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood he himself likewise said in the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil and release those who throw fear of death were all their life time subject to wonders yeah so here again one more different word is used you know in your notes all the Greek words are mentioned so here it talks about how we have been set free how we have been released you know from from slavery to the fear of death because as long as we were in the darkness as long as we were slaves of sin all we could ever look forward to is physical death and then eternal death in hell but now because of what Jesus Christ has done we have been set free from death from the fear of death so it says over here it's interesting that it says to free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death so it doesn't literally say that we have been delivered from death itself because we all undergo the physical death we all undergo that experience but we don't have to be afraid of that physical death experience simply because there's something even better waiting for us you know beyond death we have eternal life with God so it doesn't literally say over here that we have been redeemed from death itself but we have been redeemed from the fear of death because physical death can no longer harm us it can no longer you know take us away from the eternal future which God has for us that is covered that is preserved you know under the Lord so we still have access to eternal life so we don't have to be afraid of death anymore so these are all the different aspects of redemption that we need to remember so that basically was just a brief summary of the doctrine of redemption let's in the time that we have left before the break if we can just quickly get into the doctrine of sanctification okay so now when people talk about the salvation experience they talk about initial salvation that's basically when you make a commitment to the Lord Jesus you choose to submit to Him and in that moment regeneration happens redemption happens justification happens all those things take place in that moment of initial salvation and then for the rest of our earthly life we have this ongoing salvation process which we go through which would be sanctification which word where I have an Apollo so in my over here and I have an Apollo process over here Apollo basically both from the same root word where you're not only being purchased but you're also being set free being released like we use the example of those doubts you purchase them you set them free from their captivity I mean you purchase them and then you release them out into the freedom of something new you know where they can fly around and do what they want and so when we apply that to believers we were now we were earlier we had a former way of life but now we are being released into a new way of life where we would have liberty in Christ Jesus so it's just basically that so that we Apollo for Lutrosis and also that word Lutro that's basically the thing yeah coming back to our sanctification so sanctification is an ongoing salvation process we had the initial salvation experience now we have the ongoing salvation experience where on a day-to-day basis sanctification is happening what does that mean what exactly is sanctification one verse which tries to bring out the you know the two aspects of salvation is Hebrews 10 14 so if someone could read out Hebrews 10 14 for why one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified so by one offering you know his offering his atoning sacrifice on the cross through sacrifice he has perfected forever so legally we have been declared as righteous legally we have been justified that is our legal status so it talks about justification the first portion of that verse he has perfected forever that is talking about justification but the something else which is still going on he has perfected those who are being sanctified so sanctification is still going on justification happened in a single moment where we were legally declared as righteous but the sanctification process is a continual process so basically sanctification is the process which is trying to bring us you know bring our everyday life our thoughts our attitudes it's trying to bring us in line with our legal status because legally status wise we have already been declared justified but in our behavior we are not behaving like justified people we are still living in the old way of life in the empty way of life out of which god redeemed us why did he redeem us he redeemed us so that we can start a new way of life in the kingdom of the sun so we are actually expected to be changing on a daily basis and becoming like this justified person who is living in righteousness who is living in holiness so sanctification is basically the process which is trying to bring us in line with our legal status so that not only just status wise are we righteous but even in our actual behavior in our thoughts in our attitudes we are growing into this righteousness growing into this legal status which has already been given off to us free you know so that is the difference that we see between justification and sanctification and your notes has got a very nice table which brings out the contrast between justification and sanctification and it's quite good actually so it says over there justification is the legal standing that we have you know the legal standing where we have been declared righteous justified by god sanctification on the other hand has to do with the internal condition so internally am I becoming really righteous am I really growing in holiness that's what sanctification focuses on and then justification happens once for all in the sense once you have come under the covering of Jesus Christ he has declared us justified he has declared us righteous but sanctification is a continual daily process where everyday you are becoming more and more righteous and becoming more like Christ so one is a once for all experience justification sanctification is an ongoing continual process and then it says the justification is entirely God's work which is so true because in that moment when we place our faith in him and submit to him he says yes you know you are now declared just so we didn't do anything from our side except to trust him and it says right even that faith which we received to trust in him was given by God as a gift we would never have been able to trust him on our own so it's entirely God's work justification is entirely God's work but sanctification on a daily basis we have to cooperate with him so God is working in us but we need to cooperate with him and you know by by choosing to set aside the worldly things and choosing to be godly on a daily basis so here in sanctification we would require active cooperation God needs our active participation and then the other point that is made in your notes is that justification makes us perfect in status only so in status wise we are declared perfect but it is sanctification which makes sure that we start becoming like Christ okay so not only status wise are we perfect but sanctification makes sure that even in our lifestyle we are becoming more and more like Christ and the last point that is you know mentioned in the table over there in your notes it says that justification is the same for all Christians every single person has been declared righteous all our cloth in the righteousness of God so all are equally righteous it's the same status wise we all have been given the righteousness of Jesus Christ so it's the same for everyone but when it comes to sanctification there are people who have chosen to humble themselves submit to God and actually become more holy in their thoughts in their attitudes and their behavior and there are some who have not even bothered to do that so the level of sanctification will differ from person to person depending on how much they value what has been given to them and depending on how much they want to take hold of it and actually see it achieved in their lives that will depend on their spiritual hunger that will depend on the desire that they have to honor him and be loyal to him so that will differ from person to person so when we look at sanctification we could basically say that there are two aspects to it okay we look at that maybe after we come back from the break so at 10 o'clock if you know those who are online can log back in we will continue at 10 and I would need someone to take me over here with the camera because after that it was cut off


Alright, thanks for staying with us. World Heart Day is observed on September 29th every year to raise awareness about the cardiovascular disease and promote heart-healthy lifestyle globally. It was established by the World Heart Federation in 1999 and aims to educate people about the risk factors associated with heart disease and the preventive measures they can take. They also encourage collaboration amongst government, healthcare professionals, organizations and individuals to fight against heart disease. It's so interesting, right? The conversation we had this morning. Yeah, today I don't know, it's just this strange feeling in my chest and then sometimes I get it and I get very scared because your heart is literally, if not the most vital, second most vital organ in the body and once it collapses or has any sort of failure, that's it. So I think in Nigeria, I think we're actually better off than most other countries because our diets, our lifestyle and generally our culture promotes healthiness.  Once you spend one day hustling on the legal street, everything will almost disappear. So it's, I think for us we're just like blessed naturally. We are, but I think again we're slowly losing that because again if you look at the lifestyle with the advent of what we call importing international kinds of cuisine and international kinds of junk food and all of that, a lot of people are becoming a lot more sedentary. That idea you're talking about, I mean in the years before now, you see a lot of people having to walk miles to their schools, having to walk miles to their farmlands and all of that. We don't have all of those anymore. So yeah, it's true. Our lifestyle would promote healthy living but if you come down urban areas in the country, you see that, you would see that there's a bit of variation now. You see so many sedentary kind of lifestyle. I think for anybody that is watching, please promote health, do something. I mean we started riding a bicycle. I'm so happy doing that with you because, I mean I've not done it in a long time and I realize how much I really missed my bicycle days and all of that. I mean those types of activities does help to pump the blood and keep it flowing. So yeah, I mean it's World Heart Day. If you've not done anything to pump your blood in your hearts today, please try to do something. And the good thing about the internet now, if you just Google like home exercise, you don't even need to go out of your house. There are so many things or is it yoga, so many things you can do that just keeps the blood pumping. So hey, happy World Heart Day and I would say thank you to everyone too that is really doing a lot in contributing to their awareness. I know that Kano Heart Foundation, every year, year on year, for years, they've been consistent because he himself, I remember when I was a child, hearing about history, I had to go through heart surgery and all of that. The governor of Kano. No, no, Kano, the footballer. Okay, okay, yeah. Kano-Wanko, the footballer. Yeah.  One of the biggest hospital success in India, Naranda, I think, Medical City is built on heart health because again, you think we're predisposed, the numbers, they are much more alarming. In a lot of Indians, especially male, they are predisposed to high blood pressure, predisposed to heart attack and all of those things. So heart health is a big issue globally and I'm happy that some people have actually dedicated their life's work in just keeping people alive because once that has stopped pumping, I mean, that's a life that has gone there. So what did you find first in the news? My news for today is going to be taken from Vanguard and the headline says, illegal mining will descend heavily on foreign operators sponsoring banditry, Alaka. So the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alaka, yesterday warned that federal governments will heavily descend on unscrupulous, foreigner operators sponsoring banditry to perpetrate illegal mining. Alaka stated this during a courtesy visit, paid by a delegation of Niger-China Chamber of Mines, led by its national president, Dr. Ulubenga Ajalla, in his office at the ministry's headquarters in Abuja, as contained in a statement signed by the head, press and public relations, Alaba Balogun. He reiterated that the ministry is committed to establishing a multi-agency task force that would put a stop to the activities of illegal miners and their collaborators. Well, illegal mining. I think this is a sort of sensitive topic for me because every time people ask me what I want to do in terms of career, I always talk about mechatronics engineering, but then if you'd ask me what I actually want to do with that degree, parts of it, a huge part of it actually is creating infrastructural facilities that we can use to extract our own natural resources so that we can refine them into what we can use to better the country. So for the fact that there are some people who believe that they have the right to come and to take what they know isn't theirs just because there are no relations in place that would prevent them from doing such is something that's really, really takes me off sometimes because Nigeria is a very diverse country. Everybody knows it. There's no denying it, but I guess the reason why people have felt so natural in taking advantage of it thus far is because we don't have those like I was even telling you earlier today that if we want to stop people from taking things that are not theirs, we could make it very possible. All of those areas, they could be guarded by like security officials with very high powered weapons. So if you know that you don't want to get into their trouble, you don't do those kinds of things. But then I'm happy that the Minister for Solid Minerals is actually taking an active step in our least. Is it taking an active step or just taking tough? I don't know. At this point, I really don't know. Well, let me know. I like your optimism. You're young. The challenge is that some of us have seen so many talk tough and not do nothing, but I get you, right? I get you.  And again, the reason you have this kind of things happen is because there's a huge gap, right? In which is, you know, the the agencies are supposed to regulate and protect this thing. They are not doing their job. That's why it continues to thrive. But you see, in regard of mining, it's a big deal. It's just like the way they say oil theft, right? It's a big deal. And the truth is, if you really want to stop it, there's an entire value chain that needs to go down. And you'll be shocked that even the security personnel would be that are supposed to be present. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. So I mean, my story is actually very interesting as well. I'm talking tough. Ladikpoh Market has been shut down. It says a closure wave that is sweeping around Lagos. Apparently, Ladikpoh Market, which is the famous, if you don't know Ladikpoh Market, that means you've not bought it to Kumbhoka. Ladikpoh Market is known for to Kumbhospare parts in Lagos has been closed due to environmental offenses. The closure was ordered by Tukumbo Wahab, which is the, what's it called, the State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, in response to a reckless waste disposal on clean premises and non-payment of waste bill. Now, the closure follows O'Imbu. Apparently, O'Imbu Market has been shut down. Alaya Biaba, I think Market, I don't know how to pronounce that, which was sealed by a law mafuling warnings about non-compliance with the State Environmental Protection Laws. The laws emphasize zero tolerance for environmental offenses, such as indiscriminate refuse dumping, willful defacing of the environment, and refusal to pay for waste services. So, I mean, I'm happy that this is happening because honestly speaking, Lagos is an iso.  Like, when we start to do that intentionally, you know, I mean, I saw the governor, the other day, went to one of the rail tracks, I'm not sure which area now, and he was shouting on those people, this is not a marketplace, because if you literally check some of, actually I'm on mile 12, if you check those rail tracks, they've been covered by people in the name of traders, right? This is supposed to be, rail tracks are supposed to be functioning for the trains to go through, to transport goods and people, right? But we don't have all of those. So, I think it is, I mean, I like the toughness, but I like when it is more, what is, what is, the language is understood is more of enforcement.  Well, about the shutting down, me personally, I've only been to La Dippo market once, and that was when it was me and my dad, and we went to get this, was it ball bearings for the tractor in the farm, and then when I went there, the amount of people that flooded, because we're in the pickle, the amount of people that flooded the truck, trying to sell us different things, I just realized that, because the first thing I even noticed in the La Dippo market wasn't the waste, that is the reason for them shutting down, apparently. The first thing I noticed was the over the people, and then what I realized is that if you just, as a government, decide to take decisive actions to shut places like this down, places that, whether we choose to admit it or not, are economic centers for people, particularly the lower class of people in Nigeria. We would, we would sort of, we will create an imbalance that will cause a ripple effect.  And then it's said, an idle hand is the devil's workshop, so now if they begin to start doing things in the name of lack of employment, that we wouldn't find fancy or we wouldn't want to have within our immediate environment, all these societal versus whatnot, then we can't particularly blame them, but then again, then again, it's not their fault because they don't have any alternative. If they have shut these guys down, and let's say after shutting down the marketplace, they have already built somewhere where they can literally just move their stock or whatever to, they could go to continue. So I get you, and you have a very valid point, this is, this shutting down is not so much of, it's just non-compliance. So if I've sent you a letter, and I say this place is there to fix it, I've sent you several warnings, I've sent you everything, you know, last last resort. So for them to have gotten to this plate, this stage, it means that this is the last resort, so I don't know. But we live it for the government, we live it for the government. I get your point, it's actually a very valid point because you don't want to get a lot of people out of, you know, their day to end. These people actually earn on a daily basis, which guarantees food on the table. I get you. That's a downer. I'll take a break. When we come back from the break, let's discuss digital education. Stay with us.


I would like to invite Will Estham, who will be presenting on the topic Enhancing Enterprise Agility using the TOGAP and IDCROID standards. Welcome Will. Will Estham is the President of Metaplexity Associates. He is actively involved in the development of TOGAP and our idea and has extensive training and consulting experience in enterprise architecture and TOGAP. He is the past chair of the Open Group Architecture Forum and is the chairman of modeling and terminology committee in the fall. He has also served a two-year term on the Open Groups governing board. Over to you Will. Thank you. I'll speak to you back. Yeah, I came here actually to Hyderabad a year ago and did a presentation that was very similar to this one. But at that time it was kind of a prototype. Since then I've been joined by three other people. So myself, but also Michael Fulton, Michael Fulton, some of you may know him. He has just previously been working with CCNC Solutions and just last week he started a new job in enterprise architect over at Nationwide Insurance, which has come back in his home town in Cincinnati, Ohio. And then also Sylvain Marie from Paris Floor from Paris Friends and Lucas Rizinski from the Architecture Center Limited which is located in England but they're actually a group of people that came from Poland originally. So right now we are all working together on a white paper that really talks about this subject in more detail. So I'm going to be giving you pretty much just some of the highlights of the things that we've been doing from the past a year as we work on this white paper. So before I got started with this project I was the chairman of another project of the open group that's called Project Harmony and we just finished a presentation talking about Archimade. So when Archimade came out it really was developed by a group of architects in the Netherlands and Archimade was not designed to be like totally compatible with Toga it was a separate product that's had its own development stream it's own intellectual property. So on the two standards down into the market to the other people were trying to use them and they were finding that there were some places where there was disconnects and so we said we need to figure out a way to harmonize Toga and Archimade. And so myself, I remember three or four other people we basically worked for about almost two years and came up with some very detailed analyses of the differences between Archimade and Toga and then recommendations for how you can overcome some of those challenges. So that's Project Harmony and so this week we're going to be talking here about kind of the differences between and the similarities between Toga and IT for IT. So let me go ahead and start here. So this page has a lot of text here you don't have to read it. It's just talking about the white paper that they're working on. So I just basically told you what I didn't even know. So we're going to start by just reviewing Toga. I've seen the elements of Toga up on the screen several times today so I'll be brief. And then I'm going to introduce IT for IT and that is probably something that's a little bit less well known to you so I'll dig in there. But then I'm going to look at the touch points between the two. So what are the similarities, what are the differences that we see between Toga and IT for IT. And then how can we use them together to transform an enterprise's business capabilities, improve agility and we'll talk about the kind of how can we get architecture to work better with communities that are practicing agile methods and DevOps and continuous development. Some of these kind of modern day development methodologies. You know I mean this has always been going on. I remember about ten years ago everybody was head over heels about extreme programming. So we do have some fads that we go through. I'm a strong believer in the gardener hype curve and so not everything is going to survive on the market extreme programming didn't. Although there might still be some people that are doing it for special projects where they need a user interface design or something like that. But that's great. But for most people other methods are okay. You know today it seems to be invoked to criticize waterfall models. And well I think when you're developing large scale systems waterfalls are actually what you really need. Some of the stuff you're trying to do as scrums are more like user focused kind of thing. How do we build applications for people? But when you're building back end systems sometimes you really need to be very methodological about your approach. So these are all trends and things that are going on inside of our industry and they affect how we go about delivering value to the enterprise. So let's just go ahead and take a quick look at TOGAF. So again the open group architecture framework was the original meaning today it's just TOGAF. Today it's just a brand name. It's trademarked by the open group. And it's a framework for doing architecture especially enterprise architecture and really helps us to focus on developing architectures that are based on standards as much as possible. You know some companies care about standards. Other companies are less concerned about standards. And I think even they should be thinking about consequences of not really watching out for standards and the impact they have for you. So I'm hoping to get you to be able to build architectures that are more interoperable so your systems can talk to each other. And today with a lot of computing and things like that portability is becoming more and more of a customer issue. So this is my adaptation of figure number one from TOGAF. I just took out a lot of text that was too small for you to read. But what it's really showing on the left hand side of the screen you see business, vision, drivers, basically strategic intent. And on the right hand side you see something called business capabilities. So TOGAF 9, one of its hallmarks is this introduction to this idea of capability-based planning especially focused on business capabilities. So basically the idea is that as we go through the TOGAF method we're going to basically identify strategic needs and then try and figure out capabilities that will address those needs. And as we address those capabilities that will expose new opportunities for new strategic capabilities. So it's kind of a positive feedback move. And the colored boxes you see in the middle are the major elements. There's six major parts of TOGAF. So you've got the architecture capability. This is where we manage and govern it. We've got the ADM, the crop circle diagram that everybody talks about, the development method. And then we've got the architecture content framework and the enterprise architecture repository and the enterprise continuum. And then finally we have a set of reference models which are there for you to use if you wish. And then as you go through the TOGAF framework up at the very top there you see this one third that is the capability framework. And the middle tier is essentially the ADM and the content framework. And then the bottom is the repository and the enterprise continuum. So that's actually figure number one in TOGAF in the conceptual model. So what we're trying to do here with TOGAF is figure out how can we build capabilities that meet needs and there were several speakers today that talked about this. So a capability could be something like delivering products to customers on time or making sure that you can track shipments and things like that. In order to achieve that kind of capability you might have to take an incremental approach so we talk about capability increments. A little bit like transition architectures. And then we also talk about capability dimensions. So we can talk about the people, the process, the technology dimensions. And so what we have to do to get our people ready to perform how we design a business process that works and finally what are the technology capabilities that we need to provide. So basically this is my illustration. This isn't in TOGAF. This is kind of like my TOGAF game board at TML. So the game of TOGAF is played by looking at all four of the domains of the top there, business, information, actually data, applications and technology. The middle two, the data and applications are actually clustered together into what's called the information systems architecture. So we look at each of those domains. We basically perform this middle level thing here. We look at, for each of the domains we look at the current state, the target state, and then the gap that exists between them. So what have I got to do to close that gap? Usually the gap in the enterprise architecture is significant enough that you're not going to be able to close it in one jump. So we build in these transition architectures that incrementally help us move towards the target state. The blue arrows that you see around the target state represent the impact of the targets. If we actually build this thing, what is the impact going to be? And finally down at the very bottom, everything in TOGAF framework in the ADM is driven by requirements and constraints. So there's our beloved crop circle diagram. And you'll see me going through the ADM so if you're not familiar with it already, as I get further into this discussion, you'll see me breaking the ADM down and explaining different parts and how they work with IT for IT. So basically the top circle is where we start up an enterprise architecture practice. It's the preliminary phase. And then once we complete that activity, then we can begin actually doing ADM cycles as projects, if you will. And those projects basically create a vision. They then flesh that vision out into an architecture description.  And then they build a solution. And so that's the basic process. And you notice in the very middle there you've got requirements management, which is driving the whole process. So then we talk about this architecture capability. And it's a little bit hard to read, but on the left-hand side, we've got the architecture staff. In the middle, we've got the project management and the implementation teams who are working on architecture contracts to develop something for us. And on the right-hand side, you've got basically your operations people. And so this is kind of a flow of things, although we'd like to see this actually recirculating so that the operations people can talk to the architects. And then you'll notice at the very top there, the whole thing is governed by a network of governance structures like IT governance, architecture governance, in some cases even corporate governance. So then we have the enterprise repository. Again, you may not have a repository like this. I heard somebody asking a question earlier today about where we store all of our Archimage files. Well, in TOGAP, we have this thing that was recommended to basically provide a container where you can store and organize your content. I'm not going to go into a big, long explanation of this, but it basically has a place called Landscape. And in Landscape, it contains your architecture building blocks that they use, and they're stored at different levels of detail, starting at a strategic level, going down to segment levels, and then finally getting to basically capability architectures. So, and then there's also in the outer part of the gray box, you'll see a requirements repository and something that they call the solutions repository, which actually can be open to a variety of different things like maybe a CMDB configuration management database or something like that. We're actually storing operational system descriptions and things like that. And then there's this strange thing called the enterprise continuum, which befodils a lot of people that don't really understand what exactly this enterprise continuum is. Prior to TOGAP 9, the enterprise continuum was actually the recommendation for the architecture repository. So it was the place where we stored our content. And the reason they call it continuum is you kind of view the building blocks that you put into that continuum on this kind of a number line that goes from the left-hand side, which is where you have very generic building blocks towards the right-hand side where you get increasingly more specific. So you finally get to the point when you get all the way to the right-hand side there where you have a specific architecture and then you get down to the green box there and the solutions continue. You pretty much do the same thing. You might start out with a generic piece of software, for example, SAP or something like that, but then you tailor it and configure it until you finally get to the exact solution that the customer wants. So that's basically the flow. And then we have something called deployed solutions about the bottom. And that would be the stuff that's actually operational on the enterprise right now. So that's the enterprise continuum. So that's a review of the FOGAP standard. Let's go ahead now and take a look at this IT for IT. It's kind of the new kid on the block. It's a very exciting framework. And how many people have seen this picture? How many people have not seen this picture? Let me see that. So there's a few people out there. So some of you may remember Michael Porter's famous book about competition. And he talked in that book about value chains. So this is not exactly Michael Porter's version of a value chain. He had something quite different. This is an IT value chain. But it's kind of showing you the same things. The goal here is to provide IT services to meet the needs of the business. And so we talk about having efficiency and agility as kind of the goals here. And along the way, on the top of this model you see the four blue herringbone wedges there. Those are basically the value streams and you have plan, bill, deliver, run, roughly. So that's sort of like the Deming Cycle. And then underneath that you see some supporting resources. And these are still being defined as they go through the next version of IT for IT. But the top part is pretty well fleshed out right now and that's what we're going to focus on today. But I'm kind of excited to see what happens in the next version when they start fleshing out some of the stuff that's in the lower part as well. These things are not just built all at once. So as we go through, we basically have a service life cycle. So we're trying to provide services to the enterprise. So we start out with strategy to portfolio. That's the plan thing that we were looking at just a minute ago. And so strategy to portfolio is really where we start looking at what is it we're trying to do, that strategic intent that I talked about. And we start figuring out how to map that into an architecture. And so then as we do that, we basically come up with what is it we're going to do, strategy. Then we start moving into requirement to deploy. And this is where we start to think about well if I'm going to build this thing for the strategy, what have I got to do to fulfill that? So what's the requirement to deploy? And then once we get the system up and running, it moves into request to fulfill. And that's where the system is actually operating. And so the customer says I need 10,000 light bulb or something like that. And we fulfill their order and ship it to them. And that's how it goes. And finally, excuse me, I skipped one there. At the very end, we have a thing called the tactic correct. So that's where we look for problems that might be happening and try and put it into an adaptive feedback loop so we can correct the issues, things like that. And so as we move along this process for successively refining it, I don't like the enterprise to continue kind of doing that same thing, except this is more about operational system. This is not about architecture. So now this one I don't expect you to be able to read. It's a very detailed model and it basically is what we call a level one reference architecture. And it's got the misspelling in there. It says ITI or IT. You've got to get that out there. But if you look carefully, let me see here if I can point to things. The left-hand side, the first problem is essentially strategy portfolio. So that's all the strategic planning stuff. The next two columns are requirements to deploy. And pretty much the next three columns are requested to fulfill.  So that's level one. The IT for IT standard right now defines a total of five different levels and they get more detail as you go down. But they only publicly show you the top three levels. The bottom two levels are reserved for particular vendors to do like for example maybe BMC might do the way that they do service management differently from Hewlett-Acker or something like that. So each vendor can kind of define the internals of their solutions using levels four and five. So they don't talk about that specifically in the standard. Here's another way of looking at things. This is the service model. And basically as we basically provide services to the customer to address issues, we can start out looking at kind of the conceptual level where we can look at continuous assessments or kind of constantly looking for things to be fixed. And then continuous integration for the logical level and continuous delivery for the actual solution that you're actually building. So that's just kind of talking about how we can go about delivering services to customers. So the question becomes can and should IT for IT be used together? And I think there's a bunch of different attitudes and beliefs about that. I think some people in the IT for IT community are operation managers people and they don't understand why the architects would want to have anything to do with this. And there's architects out there that say, well, I don't want to give my hands to an operation manager. So I think we've got some polarization along the way. But I think a lot of people realize that these two things actually can work together very well. And that's what we'll spend the rest of the presentation here. So when we try to do harmonization activities, the goal is not to join IT for IT and TOGAF together so that they're inseparable. We want to keep those independent standards, but we want to try and identify what are the ways that we can use them together. What are the exceptions? There might be some areas where you really shouldn't try and mix them together. So that's what this white paper working on is going to be producing. So we'll just give you a few ideas here. They are very complementary in many respects. There are areas where there are differences, and we'll talk about that. But there are significant benefits that could accrue from getting them to work together. So let's just take a look at this. So what are the touch points? So, you know, when we did the project harmony stuff with Archimage, I remember one of my colleagues, Sonia Gonzalez, who's now the chairman of the director of the architecture forum, she kept saying, Bill, TOGAF is a framework, and Archimage is a modeling language. So there are differences there. She repeatedly brought that up, which is pretty obvious. But TOGAF is an architecture framework. IT for IT is best referred to as a reference architecture for the IT function. Okay? So where TOGAF is very general, IT for IT is more specifically focused on a particular thing. The scope of IT for IT is the business of IT. And it's basically providing you an operating model based on those value streams that I just talked about. And then defining information systems architectures that enable the interoperability across the business. So, you know, just imagine if you could get detected correct to be able to, you know, communicate back to the people that are working in the requirements area, things like that. So, basically, communication picks up sooner. TOGAF, on the other hand, is an architecture framework. The scope of TOGAF is really enterprise-wide and in some cases beyond. And it looks at those four domains, business, information, applications, technology, and trying to define the business capabilities. So basically, conceptual models, they do have different conceptual models that show that about it. There are definitely some differences you know, TOGAF talks about, for example, actors, organizations, services, talks about functions and processes, it talks about data objects, it talks about application objects and platform services, and things like that. So those are the kind of entities that TOGAF is accustomed to modeling, whereas IT for IT is a much more specific set of entities that we'll look at later on through here. So this is a thing that is called the MetaModel. This is a subject of great debate and discussion within the architecture forum. We are trying to re-engineer this from the next bird to the TOGAF and we have really been coming up with a lot of different permutations to the model. But this one's a nice, great starting point and it just shows you the entities and relationships to each other. For example, actors are allowed to be part of an organization and organizations are allowed to have functions and processes. So as long as there's a line that connects these different entities together then that's a legal relationship that can exist. So I don't want to get lost in the MetaModel right now I could do a whole hour on the MetaModel and that's not what we're here to talk about today. Let me hear we see the reference models for IT for IT and again like I mentioned Level 1, 2 and 3 the standard explicitly talks about what's in each of those levels but once you get below Level 3 it's reserved for the vendors to do their humanities. So how do we use TOGAF and IT to transform business capabilities? So here's the crop circle diagram preliminary phase of the very top layer that's just setting up the architecture we get to that next level down at the top circle in the crop circle diagram it says A, architecture vision that's the normal starting point for an architecture project and the goal there is to come up with a high level architecture vision for something we're trying to do maybe we're trying to build an ERP system that can basically manufacture widgets and keep track of hours for workers in a factory so we might start out with that vision of Level 1 and then we can go into phases B, C and D and we can define the architectures, the actual high level architectures for that so we might say that we need some more ERP system and we might say that we need a module that can keep track of time or we need another module that can do economic order quantity calculations and things like that so we can build the different elements that need to be put in notice here I'm not really talking about a product like SAP or Oracle or something like that I'm just talking about the functional needs that we have so typically phases B, C and D we try and operate at a logical level stay away from vendor products nothing wrong with vendor products it's just that at this point in the game we're trying to strip away that marketing and focus on what we actually need what are the requirements that we have and then we get down to the very bottom and we get to phases E and F and that's where we bring the vendors in and say ok here's what we've identified as our needs and then what is the what is the products that we need the vendor products that will fulfill or what are the stuff that we might build we might actually develop our own solutions or integrate existing solutions so those are all things that we can do and and then as we move up there by the time we get to phase G we take the architecture the solution architecture that we've identified and we basically give it to the implementation organization, the development team and they go off and develop it on their own and this could be where the agile work begins although the agile people would say hey we want to be more involved in the very front of this activity and I don't blame them but let's just say that the agile people would take over and finish whatever was started early and but then they will go ahead and actually build something that will solve the architecture and then it rolls through the QA and test and rolls into production and that's when it enters phase H when the architecture actually rolls into production we put it under change control on phase H and observe the architecture as it operates to make sure that it's fit for purpose and if it is, we say that's great, we're done if it isn't and then it needs to be adjusted we can do various things to adjust the architecture so those are all the kind of things that we do in TOGAP and if you look at the balloons that are on the outside there you can see how they've labeled those things using IT for IT terminology and so we're going to see more slides like this so I'm not going to dwell on this one here's another picture of the same thing we see the ADM and as we go through the first three phases we're basically dealing with the business services and then as we get into the third phase, information systems architecture, we're dealing with IT services that need to be provided and then phase D kind of focuses on infrastructure services then we get into phases E and F we're doing the solution roadmap and the implementation migration strategy and then by the time we get into phase F we're starting to package things up into projects that can be implemented using work packages and delivery vehicles and then basically phase G when you turn it over to the development organization so that's one possible way of doing this the other thing that's important to realize is this is showing TOGAP is kind of a deterministic waterfall and it's really not you can certainly do it as a deterministic waterfall if that's appropriate but you can also especially in TOGAP 9 you have the ability to iterate and do things in different sequences there's no problem with that so you can do for example phase B and phase C simultaneously if you wanted to things like that with all kinds of tricks that you can use to speed up development to get to the answers better and here they're looking at the value screen so again on the left or the right hand side you see strategy to portfolio and that definitely is a place where the right hand side of the crop circle diagram fits and then you look at requirements to deploy that's your solution architecture request to fulfill where you're actually building it and operating it and then you put another change in control for detector app so it's not a perfect mapping there but it's not bad and here you see some more of the stuff over there the very top there you see that red box that's highlighted in strategy to portfolio the very top box there is called the enterprise architecture component and so the IT for IT group when they were developing standard they really thought that enterprise architecture should be prominently featured and so it's right there at the very top of strategy to portfolio but I hope you've seen as I've gone through this today that there's other touch points to the ADM and to TOGA so it's not only that architecture component yeah so here's the IT for IT perspective when you talk to some of the people in that group this is kind of their major thing that they want to see TOGA helping with that enterprise architecture component but I think we've seen that there certainly are some other things that we need to be we need to get some things from the IT for IT people to see the stuff that we're trying to do as well so this is kind of a concept that I'd like to leave you with last year I had a word up on here an indie that said Armini and that seemed to get a lot of cheers from the audience what I'm proposing here I mean everybody today is talking about DevOps DevOps and continuous delivery continuous integration and hedge off but I think you have to really have somebody who's watching the bigger picture and so I think this is where the enterprise architects can really earn their feet and so I'd like to see a way to make architecture and the development people and the operation people work together that's really the big idea here and yeah there it is okay so Armini I think we can make that happen so there was somebody who showed this slide earlier today it's a little different configuration but I really like this slide and this is out of Toga I've kind of embellished it a little bit so on the left hand side there you see strategic planning and there we have so this might be executives of the company other strategic planning people and they might be the ones that actually identify the capabilities and they might be the ones that break down the increments and things like that and the architects will take over and they might do more of that capability planning more of the building block design and things like that and then it gets handed and this is all very sequential doesn't have to be that way the development team gets involved and then ultimately the operations people so I came from manufacturing and you know back in the old days in the 1970s when they designed automobiles it would take them seven years to work an automobile from the walk and then I'm rolling out the door and they did a thing called concurrent engineering where they started having the manufacturing the design engineers and the service engineers working together throughout the whole process and they've driven the cycle time down to a year or two now for developing a new automobile so I think we have the same kind of opportunity here if we can get the planners and the developers and the operations people to talk to each other in a similar way so that's it that's toy out an IT to transform the IT capability and after there's illustrating some other things here from that figure number one toy out I really already said that here's the enterprise continuum again as we move from left to right at the top there you see what we call building blocks the architecture building blocks starting out a very high level reference model working all the way down to specific architectures but again these are vendor neutral logical building blocks and then the lower level is the solutions continuum where we start out with maybe generic product descriptions or things that we need to build and then we work that through the process until we wind up with a specific architecture that can be built and then here we're just showing you some of the some of the goodies in the repository and how they could be used by the IT for IT community and again here they're using the ADM to implement IT for IT and again we've already really covered a lot of this stuff already so I'm not going to go through it again so that's it I guess I kind of messed up there can you bring up my summary yeah so just to sum up here the toy out is a standard for doing architecture IT for IT is a reference architecture that really helps us to design the business of IT so how do we properly execute IT that supports the business needs so the two standards have many of the same goals but different ways of doing things and I believe and we'll be working hard to finish up this white paper that the two can be used together and if they do then I think it will be a beneficial thing to the enterprise so ensuring that the toy out for IT IT for IT standard are properly harmonized will make each of them more valuable to the organization's employment that's why I'm talking and I'm glad to take questions


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel for today's video. I am going to be doing a demo on the new Sonia G Kiyaki brush set. I'm also going to be talking about the brush holder that sold out in 10 minutes. So if you want to see what these are all about, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup that comes out on the market and my newest pickup will not mine. My mother's newest pickup was the Sonia G Kiyaki brush set. My mother and I are big fans of Sonia G brushes. I was definitely going to order this brush set for myself, but when my mom told me that she was definitely going to order it for herself, I was like, let me try yours first and then I'll make an educated decision after. So I may very well pick these up for myself, but definitely took advantage of my mom taking a punch before me. So along with the Kiyaki brush set, Sonia G actually launched a brush holder as well. I want to get this one out of the way because it currently is out of stock. It literally sold out in 10 minutes. Listen to this. This brush holder is $190. It's called the Crane's Overmount Fuji wooden brush holder. Very, very luxurious, very cool. And let me tell you, okay, this is so smart. It's very, very thin. As you can see, I feel like I never thought of a brush holder being thin. It just makes sense. So that way you're able to see your brushes in a line just so you can see there are five compartments in here. I have three Sonia G face brushes. So about three are going to fit in each section as we get to the thinner brushes more will fit. But overall, the idea is that your brushes will all be in a line. So you'll be able to see everything. There's like a truck out front making a lot of noise. So this brush holder is a limited edition. And if you take a closer look, you can see all of these carved designs. This is such a cool brush holder for myself. I probably wouldn't have purchased it. It doesn't really match my room, but the design. I really, really love the design. Anyways, I did just want to share that with you guys. Let's get into what I personally was most excited about. But a lot of you guys were excited about the brush holder apparently. We have the Kiyaki brush set. So this guy is $125. If you're familiar with the prices of these Japanese handmade natural hair brushes, it's not a bad price for five brushes, which sounds crazy. But for example, the Sky Eye Set, which I have a few from in my brush holder here. I love that Sky Set. Anyways, it was $160.  So for lengths comparison, you can see the height difference here.  Now I have very small hands. So these fit in my hands perfectly. Now what I love so much about this set in particularly are the brush handles here. So these are actually real wood and then it has a matte ferrule right here. I love the design of this brush handle. I think it looks very luxurious. I would love to see a full size collection come from these handles because I think they are stunning. They're unique and I like them better than the plastic. Like these look really nice, but there's something about the wood that I'm just like, yes, expensive. I love it. Now online, this set is currently available on Beautylish. It does say this item will ship on or after December 23rd. That's happened to me before and I felt like I still got my products very, very fast. I don't know. Purchased with caution. Somebody let me know if that's actually true. Now the concept behind these brushes is that they're supposed to be able to pretty much give you a full face and their travel brushes. Now obviously I always say, oh, I love this for traveling, but I don't travel even if COVID wasn't a thing. I don't travel, but I will say there have been occasions where I've packed my makeup bag before and I was so proud of myself for getting it all filled and squeezing it all into one bag and then being like, I forgot the brushes and then I couldn't make my brushes fit. This could fit into any makeup bag. I feel like it is so small. It really is perfect for travel. Let's go on to what is in the set here. So you get two face brushes and then you get three eye brushes and I'm looking over here on my computer just to make sure I'm giving you guys the right facts. Let's start off by talking about the face brushes. Now both of these are completely new to the Sonya G line. So you will not find another brush like these in the collection. So the first one that we have here is the mini base brush. Now the mini base brush is actually a mixture of the white Sokoho goat hair and synthetic hair. So this brush can be used with liquids and creams as well as powders. So this guy is very versatile because of that synthetic hair mix. Now the classic face brush here is just white and dyed Psychoho goat hair. So there is no synthetic mix in here and it's a little bit more on the flat side. I did wash all of these brushes by the way. So they are a little bit more of their trim form because they've been washed and for example just size comparison if you have the Sonya G cheek pro this is kind of how it would compare to that. Now the recommendation for this is you can use it for all types of different face powders. Now with the eye brushes these are all shapes that are already existing in Sonya G's line. They just are undyed hair. So now you're supposed to be able to use them with creams and they're not going to get messed up and it can keep the bristles safe. So the shapes are existing but the fact that they're undyed you can now use them with creams. Here is the jumbo blender. I do have it here with the dyed jumbo blender from the sky eye set. So you can see they are the same shape. It might be a little bit different based on what's been washed and how they've dried but they look like they're the pretty much same exact shape same density in some cases I would say this one might even be a little bit softer. You also get the mini booster. I absolutely love this shape. I feel like it is so versatile for what you can do with all of the different eye looks and you can see here it is compared to the dyed color and then finally you have the flat definer. This guy is also extremely versatile. You can use it to apply lid colors in our corner colors lower lash line colors of really nice small eye brush just comparing these from the sky set. I feel like just because dyed versus undyed they pretty much feel the same. I can't tell much of a difference other than the way that they look. All right you guys let's get into it. Let's get into the application portion kind of a little bit get ready with me style. I'm going to quickly apply my foundation. I know you can use the mini base brush to apply foundation personally. This is a little bit small. I feel like it would be a bit too time consuming for what I would prefer and also I personally just hate brushes any brush for applying foundation I'm not a fan of it. So I'm going to quickly just use a sponge. I always go back to a sponge but I will try the mini base brush with concealer. All right let's get into this cream application like I said big time sponge girl here don't like using brushes to apply my cream base products. Literally I don't use brushes even for cream bronzer or blush but for the sake of you Sonia D. We will do it. So I just applied the Too Faced Born This Way concealer. We're going to use the mini base brush. So just going to pat that in. I always especially like to pat with brushes so that it doesn't get streaky and you know what you guys that was pretty seamless Wow. Normally when I use a brush I still feel like I need to go in with a sponge afterwards to kind of touch up re smooth finish off everything. Do not feel the need to do that with this brush. Okay okay good job. I'm very impressed is very rare that I say this about a brush but that blended out the concealer really good and this is the perfect size for concealer application. Like I said with foundation I feel like it would just take a little bit too long. I wouldn't go for that but under eye concealer I approve heavily very very nice now I'm going to set with a little bit of powder I'm just reaching for my Charlotte Tilbury magic powder in case you're curious. I'm going to set these under eyes using the classic face brush now this classic face brush it's going to get a lot of love in today's demo because I feel like it's just such a versatile shape. I'm going to use that to set my under eyes here and the center of my face nice shape for it by very good very soft. Now let's do a little bit of a cream application for cream bronzer so I'm using my Huda Beauty Tantor we're going back into the mini base brush and I'm just going to dip it in here and this is really great for a pinpointed application of cream bronzer. Normally I like to still use a sponge for cream bronzer because I feel like it applies a seamless blend because it's a little bit more fat so this one is a little bit small so it's really great if you want to pinpoint certain areas normally I definitely just prefer a more blended out kind of look I don't really do too much with precision as far as cream bronzer goes but this is still doing a really nice job I love how it works the product out really nice really nice and it's not pushing the foundation underneath either it's really just working out that cream product okay that brush is really really good I do approve of this mini base brush I like it it's really nice so if you like to apply your creams with a brush you will enjoy this let's finish off the face though I want to use a light powder to set the bronzer so I'm just using my makeup forever pro bronze fusion and I'm going into the classic face brush and we're just going to use that to set over top so this is still a very nice shape for bronzer as well normally I would probably use a bigger bronzer brush but it's just a tiny bit too small for my preferences it still is really nice workable shape I mean wipe this off because we're just going to go in with some blush and highlight while we're at it going to use this brush for all of it we're going to use Wayne goss coral rose we're going to start off with the blush so I'm going to apply this more for a wide application so for bronzer or more of a precise application you would apply it like this for blush you kind of use one side of it and pat it on really nice now this blush is a pretty sheer blush but the natural hair does such a good job of picking up the product so that's one of the great things about natural hair risks is synthetic hair is how well it picks up powders now to dip into the highlight I'm going to use the top of the brush now so we can get more of a precise application love this highlighter by the way side note beautiful highlighter now I think typically it for a highlight brush I'd go for something smaller but it certainly is something that you can make work you know if you're just traveling or you needed to throw some brushes in a bag this is a very very versatile brush that you can use for your whole face powder application alright now we're going to move on to the eye application we're going to do this whole eye look using just three brushes well I should have used this guy hold on excuse me have it going to use the base brush blend out the concealer lately I've been using the two face pumpkin spice palette it took months for me to finally open it and I'm using it for the third day in a row so it's going pretty good I'm going to start off with the jumbo blender we're going to dip into whipped cream and I'm going to use this to set it underneath the brow so what I like about this is it has a flat side so you can use it to pat color down but when you use it this direction you actually can use it to blend another one brush that I feel like is definitely missing from this I said is I would prefer more of a fluffy brush blender brush like for me this is the brush that I probably could get rid of and replace it for a fluffier brush but it still works and we're going to dip into sweetie pie and like I said we're going to turn this brush so that the top is against the skin and we're going to use windshield wiper motions and when most of the eye shadow is on the skin and not on the brush anymore we can blend it out and this is really really great with those windshield wiper motions it just fits my eye perfectly when you have mostly a clean brush you can go out and really blend those edges or a little bit more precision we're using the mini booster brush now this is perfect for lower lash line application when you want something a little bit more blended out I feel like we all need a nice small blender brush like that for a little bit more depth I'm going to continue on with this brush and we're going to go into let's use just a bit of cocoa drizzle which is just like a chocolate brown use this for some depth and I like how small this brush is for really working it into the crease but still staying pretty low on the eye going back into my jumbo blender I'm going to use that to really work out that brown now so again just a great overarching brush to really get that blend in now with the flat definer I'm going into one piece of me and this brush does a very nice job of picking up shadow I really think what it's optimal performance is is when you are using it for this inner part of the eye with a very shimmery shade it just allows for a very precise application and then I also really love this brush for inner corner colors it's perfect just to get right in that area I did just use my fingers to apply oh my God all over my lid because no brush can pick this color up it's just that kind of texture still sticking with the flat definer I'm going to finish this look up by using the Wayne goss highlighter and just popping that into the inner corners and this is what I'm talking about it's just the perfect size for sneaking that color in there all right I'm going to finish the rest of this look and then I'll be back to give you my final thoughts on these okay I'm back I know dramatic lip I'm wearing Pat McGrath ground control lip liner and proper beauty believe it lipstick it's so good so great for this time of year final thoughts about the Sonya G Kiyaki said I think it is wonderful especially if you are first getting into Sonya G just because it is a little bit more affordable I think the brush handles are stunning and the shapes are really great definitely surprised by how much I love the mini base it really does push those liquid products into the skin with ease without leaving streaks this classic face brush is just so versatile it really is the perfect travel brush and as you can see it was very easy for me to create a whole eye look with these three brushes for me if I was traveling with this I would bring a sponge and then an additional fluffy blender brush but other than that I think I would be all set with this so I think it's really great I think she did a fabulous job and I would highly recommend it so that is all I have for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you aren't subscribed to my channel already I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so I will see you guys in the next one bye guys have a good one