Course Registration

• Please register regularly for the course via TUMonline, later on all information will be provided via Moodle.

Organization of the Module

Lecture

• The lectures will be held onsite in Garching. There will not be any recordings of the lecture.

Case Study by Senacor Technologies

• A case study provided by Senacor Technologies AG offers exciting insights into practice, allowing you to connect the theoretical knowledge from the SITM lecture to practice to deepen the learned contents even more. Participation in the case study is not mandatory and will be included as a bonus (0.3) in the assessment of the exam.
• The case study is offered in both German and English.
• Group 1: 23. January 2026 (English)
• Group 2: 30. January 2026 (German)
• The content of the case study is not relevant to the exam.
• More information regarding the case study (e.g., registration) will be provided soon.

Exam

• At the end of this module there will be a final written exam of 75 minutes
• Date: TBD
• The exam will take place onsite (TUM Garching).
• No retake exam will be offered.
• Students register for the exam on TUMOnline
• Allowed tools: none
• Language of examination is English but questions may be answered in English or German

For questions or any feedback on the course, please contact Franziska Tobisch or Marvin Chimeka.

Learning Objectives and Content

The lecture shows the different facets of strategic IT management from a practical point of view and explains the connections between the different processes of strategic IT management. The main learning objectives are:

• To understand the most important IT management and value creation processes in terms of content and their interrelationships.
• Being able to discuss the fundamental strategic decisions in IT management and their implications.
• Identification of typical problems in the practical implementation of IT management and proposing appropriate solutions.
• Get familiar with relevant methods, standards, and best practices, particularly in the areas of enterprise architecture management and scaled agile software development.
• Understand the socio-economic and technical relationships in IT management.
• Gain an overview of typical job profiles of specialists and managers in IT organizations.

Prerequisites

• Target audience: Master’s programs Informatics (incl. part-time ones), Informatics: Games Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering and Analytics, Management & Technology with a strong background in Informatics
• Knowledge and skills at the bachelor's level (Informatics/Business Informatics) especially in:
  • Fundamentals of Business Information Systems
  • Databases
  • Software Engineering
  • Business Process Management

Lecture and Exercise Dates

Literature

• Hanschke, I. (2013). Strategisches Management der IT-Landschaft: Ein praktischer Leitfaden für das Enterprise Architecture Management. Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG.
• Kaplan, J. D. (2005). Strategic IT portfolio management: governing enterprise transformation. PRTM.
• Buckl, S., Ernst, A. M., Matthes, F., Ramacher, R., & Schweda, C. M. (2009, September). Using enterprise architecture management patterns to complement TOGAF. In 2009 IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (pp. 34-41). IEEE.
• Buckl, S., Ernst, J., Lankes, A. M., Matthes (2008). Enterprise architecture management pattern catalog (version 1.0, February 2008)
• Sandkuhl, K., Fill, H. G., Hoppenbrouwers, S., Krogstie, J., Matthes, F., Opdahl, A., ... & Winter, R. (2018). From expert discipline to common practice: a vision and research agenda for extending the reach of enterprise modeling. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 60(1), 69-80. Chicago
• Uludag, Ö., Kleehaus, M., Caprano, C., & Matthes, F. (2018, October). Identifying and structuring challenges in large-scale agile development based on a structured literature review. In 2018 IEEE 22nd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) (pp. 191-197). IEEE.
• Dikert, K., Paasivaara, M., & Lassenius, C. (2016). Challenges and success factors for large-scale agile transformations: A systematic literature review. Journal of Systems and Software, 119, 87-108.
• Paasivaara, M., Behm, B., Lassenius, C., & Hallikainen, M. (2018). Large-scale agile transformation at Ericsson: a case study. Empirical Software Engineering, 23(5), 2550-2596. Chicago