Enterprise architecture & business process management
Draw the lines between strategy and the work.
Lineform Design helps organizations see how they really operate, decide what to change, and build the teams that keep it current. We do it through bespoke consulting and practitioner classes, independent of any tool or vendor.
Seven applied cohorts for practitioners and leaders, capped at twelve people. You bring a live problem from your organization, and you leave with work you can put in front of your leadership the following week.
Every organization is being asked where AI fits. In this two-day applied cohort you screen your own processes, isolate the decisions, gather the evidence, and leave with a scored opportunity list and a business case your leadership will trust.
We teach methods and standards, not software. What you learn works in whatever platform your organization already owns.
Built from practice
Our founders spent a combined 57 years at Boeing building its business architecture and process practices. Everything we teach comes from that work. Meet them.
Made to outlast us
Every class and engagement ends with something your team keeps using: a style guide, a charter, a backlog, an operating model.
Classes
Applied cohorts for process and architecture specialists.
These are not lecture courses. Each cohort is capped at twelve people, taught live by a practitioner who has built and run these functions, and built around the problem you bring from your own organization. You do the work in the room, get it critiqued, and leave with something your team can use immediately. Every cohort is virtual and tool neutral.
01 · Intake
Before the cohort
A short call and a pre-work brief so we know the problem you're bringing and can tailor the examples.
02 · Applied work
In the room
Every module ends with you applying it to your own processes, decisions, or team, not to a textbook case.
03 · Critique
Expert and peer review
Small numbers mean everyone's work is reviewed by the instructor and by specialists from other organizations.
04 · Follow-through
After the cohort
A 45-minute follow-up session about a month later to review how the work landed and what's blocking it.
Practitioner path
For analysts and modelers deepening a specialism. Each cohort builds on the last.
Decide what to automate, which technology fits, and build a business case that holds up.
Screening candidate processes by volume and by rules versus judgment
The range of options: standardize, codify rules, workflow, RPA, AI, and agents, and how to match the option to the problem
Screening processes by volume, variability, rules vs. judgment, and data availability
Using models as evidence: BPMN shows the handoffs, DMN isolates the decisions, process mining shows the data
Risk and controls: where people need to stay involved, and how to design for that
The business case: costs, benefits, effort, and realistic timelines
Building a prioritized list of opportunities
Bring three to five candidate processes. You leave with them screened, scored, and ranked.
You leave with an assessment scorecard and a scored list of opportunities from your own processes.
Ways to join
Cohorts, private runs, and bundles
Most participants are sponsored by their employer. We can provide an invoice, a course outline for approval, and a completion record for your development plan.
Open cohort
Live, virtual, and capped at twelve (eight for leader cohorts), with specialists from other organizations. Priced per seat as listed above.
Private team cohort
Any class run for your team alone, with every exercise built on your processes, data, and terminology. Up to fifteen people.
From $10,000 per day
Cohort plus coaching
Either format followed by one-on-one coaching while participants apply the work on live projects.
Quoted per engagement
Practitioner bundle
LF-110 through LF-140, the full practitioner path. Separately $5,385.
$4,495
Leader bundle
LF-210 and LF-300 together, for leaders building the function and deciding where to invest. Separately $3,695.
$2,995
Assessment add-on
An expert review of your existing models, standards, or team structure, delivered alongside the cohort.
Quoted per engagement
Consulting
Bespoke architecture and process work.
Every engagement is scoped to the problem you actually have. We work alongside your people, use the tools you already own, and hand over the methods along with the results, so the work keeps going after we leave.
Services
Process architecture
Organize your processes into one coherent structure, from value chain down to task, so models connect and every process has an owner.
Process landscape and level definitions
Modeling standards and style guides
Ownership and change control
Business architecture
Describe what your business does, independent of how or who, and use it to connect strategy to investment.
Business capability maps
Value streams
Capability heat maps for portfolio decisions
Architecture team and COE design
Stand up, scale, or reset an enterprise architecture or BPM center of excellence that the business actually uses.
Operating model and engagement model
Roles, skills, and career paths
Intake, governance, and value metrics
Process discovery and modeling
Focused sprints that capture how critical processes and decisions really run, in BPMN and DMN your teams can maintain.
Discovery workshops and interviews
Current-state and future-state models
Decision models for rules-heavy work
Process mining pilots
Prove the value of process mining on one process before you commit to a platform, using your own system data.
Event log extraction and preparation
Conformance and bottleneck analysis
Vendor-neutral platform selection support
Automation and AI assessments
Find where automation and AI will pay off, and where they won't, with evidence your leadership can act on.
Process screening and scoring
Risk, controls, and human oversight design
Prioritized opportunity roadmap and business cases
How an engagement runs
1 · Discover
Understand
Interviews, workshops, and existing documentation to learn how the work really happens.
2 · Model
Make it visible
Processes, decisions, and capabilities drawn to standard, so everyone argues about the same picture.
3 · Decide
Choose the change
Evidence and options laid out so leaders can prioritize with confidence.
4 · Embed
Hand it over
Standards, owners, and training so your team runs it without us.
Ways to engage
Assessment
A fixed-scope diagnostic of one area: your process landscape, your architecture function, or your automation pipeline.
Typical length
2–4 weeks
You get
Findings and a prioritized roadmap
Build sprint
Hands-on delivery of a defined outcome, such as a capability map, a modeled value stream, or a mining pilot.
Typical length
6–12 weeks
You get
Working models, standards, and trained owners
Advisory
Ongoing senior guidance for architecture and BPM leaders building or running a function.
Typical length
Monthly, ongoing
You get
A sounding board and reviews of key decisions
Not sure where to start?
Most clients begin with a short assessment. Tell us what's prompting the question and we'll suggest the smallest engagement that answers it.
Barb Yanda and Anita Peterson spent decades inside Boeing, where they helped build the Business Capabilities organization on the 787 program and set the company's standards for business architecture, BPMN, and DMN. They started Lineform to bring that practice to organizations of every size.
57combined years at Boeing
787the program where they built Boeing's Business Capabilities organization
2021the year they founded Lineform
Certifications
OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)
TOGAF Certified
Principal Consultant · Co-founder
Barb Yanda
Barb spent 30 years at Boeing, most recently as a Senior Business Architect. On the 787 program, she helped establish Boeing's Business Capabilities organization and shaped the company's best practices for business architecture, BPMN, and DMN.
At Lineform, which she co-founded with Anita Peterson in 2021, Barb leads our architecture and leadership work. She helps organizations design architecture functions that the business actually uses, build capability models that connect strategy to investment, and set up governance that lasts. She consults with clients and teaches Lineform classes.
Business architectureArchitecture leadershipTeam and COE designGovernance
Certifications
OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)
TOGAF Certified
Principal Consultant · Co-founder
Anita Peterson
Anita spent 27 years at Boeing as a Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master. On the 787 program, she helped establish Boeing's Business Capabilities organization and its best practices for BPMN, DMN, and business architecture.
At Lineform, which she co-founded with Barb Yanda in 2021, Anita leads our process modeling practice. She pairs an analyst's precision with a Scrum Master's sense of how teams really deliver, helping clients build BPMN models that people can read, maintain, and act on. She consults with clients and teaches Lineform classes.
Email us to request a seat in a cohort, book a private cohort for your team, or scope a consulting engagement. Seat requests get a short intake call before enrollment is confirmed.
