• Frontmatter
  • Preface
    • This Document
    • Intended Audience
    • Keywords
  • About The Open Group
    • The Open Group
  • Trademarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Referenced Documents
• Introduction
  • Structure of the TOGAF Document
  • Downloads
    • Conditions of Use
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • What is an enterprise? ...
    • ... an architecture? ...
    • ... an architecture description? ...
    • ... an architecture framework? ...
    • Why do I need an enterprise architecture?
    • Why do I need a framework for enterprise architecture?
    • Why is this important?
    • What specifically would prompt me to develop an architecture?
    • What is TOGAF?
    • What kind of architecture does TOGAF deal with?
    • Who would benefit from using TOGAF?
    • What specifically does TOGAF contain?
    • Just how do you use TOGAF?
    • How much does TOGAF cost?
    • Since TOGAF is freely available, why join The Open Group?
• TOGAF as an Enterprise Architecture Framework
  • Introduction
  • The Role of TOGAF
  • TOGAF and Architecture Governance
  • Using TOGAF with Other Frameworks
    • Overview
    • The Enterprise Continuum
  • Summary
• Introduction to the ADM
  • ADM Overview
    • Relationship to Other Parts of TOGAF
    • The ADM and the Enterprise Continuum
    • The ADM and the Resource Base
  • The Architecture Development Cycle
    • Key Points
    • Basic Structure
  • Adapting the ADM
  • Architecture Governance
  • Process Management
  • Scoping the Architecture
    • Enterprise Scope/Focus
    • Architecture Domains
    • Vertical Scope/Level of Detail
    • Time Horizon
  • Architecture Integration
  • Summary
• Preliminary Phase: Framework and Principles
  • Objectives
  • Approach
    • Principles
    • Framework
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase A: Architecture Vision
  • Objectives
  • Approach
    • General
    • Creating the Architecture Vision
  • Inputs
  • Steps
    • Business Scenarios
  • Outputs
• Phase B: Business Architecture
  • Objectives
  • Approach
    • General
    • Developing the Baseline Description
    • Business Modeling
    • Enterprise Continuum
    • Gap Analysis
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase C: Information System Architectures
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • Development
    • Implementation
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase C: Information System Architectures - Data Architecture
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • Enterprise Continuum
    • Gap Analysis
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase C: Information System Architectures - Applications Architecture
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • Enterprise Continuum
    • Gap Analysis
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase D: Technology Architecture
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • General
    • Architecture Continuum
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
  • Target Technology Architecture - Detail
    • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Step 1
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 2
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 3
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 4
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 5
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 6
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 7
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Step 8
      • Objective
      • Approach
      • Inputs
      • Activities
      • Outputs
    • Postscript
• Phase E: Opportunities and Solutions
  • Objectives
  • Approach
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase F: Migration Planning
  • Objective
  • Approach
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase G: Implementation Governance
  • Objectives
  • Approach
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• Phase H: Architecture Change Management
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • The Drivers for Change
    • The Change Management Process
    • Guidelines for Maintenance versus Architecture Redesign
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
• ADM Architecture Requirements Management
  • Objective
  • Approach
    • General
    • Resources
      • Business Scenarios
      • Volere Requirements Specification Template
      • Requirements Tools
  • Inputs
  • Steps
  • Outputs
    • Footnotes
• ADM Input and Output Descriptions
  • Introduction
  • Major Input Descriptions
    • Request for Architecture Work
    • Architecture Principles
    • Re-Usable Architecture Building Blocks
    • Product Information
    • New Technology Reports
  • Major Output Descriptions
    • Statement of Architecture Work
    • Business Scenario/Architecture Vision
    • Business Architecture
    • Technology Architecture
    • Impact Analysis
    • Architecture Contract
    • Requirements Impact Statement
• Introduction to the Enterprise Continuum
  • Overview
  • The Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Re-Use
  • The Enterprise Continuum and the TOGAF ADM
  • Constituents of the Enterprise Continuum
  • Structure of Part III
• The Enterprise Continuum in Detail
  • The Architecture Continuum
    • Introduction
    • Foundation Architecture
    • Common Systems Architectures
    • Industry Architectures
    • Enterprise Architectures
  • The Solutions Continuum
    • Introduction
    • Products and Services
    • Systems Solutions
    • Industry Solutions
    • Enterprise Solutions
  • The Enterprise Continuum and Your Organization
    • Relationships
    • Your Enterprise
    • Footnotes
• Foundation Architecture: Technical Reference Model
  • Concepts
    • Role of the TRM in the Foundation Architecture
    • TRM Components
    • Other TRMs
  • High-Level Breakdown
    • Overview
    • Portability and Interoperability
  • The TRM in Detail
    • Introduction
    • TRM Entities and Interfaces
    • Application Software
      • Business Applications
      • Infrastructure Applications
    • Application Platform
      • The Platform Concept
      • Extending the TRM
      • Interfaces Between Services
      • Future Developments
    • Communications Infrastructure
    • Application Platform Interface
    • Communications Infrastructure Interface
    • Qualities
  • Application Platform - Taxonomy
    • Basic Principles
    • Application Platform Service Categories
      • Object-Oriented Provision of Services
    • Application Platform Service Qualities
      • Principles
      • Taxonomy of Service Qualities
• Detailed Platform Taxonomy
  • Data Interchange Services
  • Data Management Services
  • Graphics and Imaging Services
  • International Operation Services
  • Location and Directory Services
  • Network Services
  • Operating System Services
  • Software Engineering Services
  • Transaction Processing Services
  • User Interface Services
  • Security Services
  • System and Network Management Services
  • Object-Oriented Provision of Services
• Foundation Architecture: Standards Information Base
  • Introduction
    • Role of the SIB
      • What is the SIB?
      • What is it for?
      • How is it Used in Architecture Development?
    • Accessing the SIB
  • The Open Group Standards
    • Overview
    • Criteria for Inclusion in the SIB
    • The Open Group Technical Processes
    • Product Standards
    • The Open Brand
  • Using the SIB
    • Introduction
    • Examples
      • Getting Started
      • Example 1: The Entire SIB
      • Example 2: Referenced Standards
      • Example 3: Open Group Technical Standards
      • Example 4: Open Group Product Standards
    • Summary of Open Group Databases and Resources
    • Footnotes
• Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model
  • Basic Concepts
    • Background
    • Components of the Model
    • Relationship to Other parts of TOGAF
    • Key Business and Technical Drivers
      • Problem Space: The Need for Boundaryless Information Flow
      • Solution Space: The Need for Integrated Information Infrastructure
    • Health Warning
  • High-Level View
    • Derivation of the III-RM from the TRM
    • The High-Level III-RM Graphic
    • Components of the High-Level III-RM
  • Detailed Taxonomy
    • Detailed III-RM Graphic
    • Business Applications
      • Information Provider Applications
      • Brokerage Applications
      • Information Consumer Applications
    • Infrastructure Applications
      • Development Tools
      • Business Modeling Tools
      • Design Modeling Tools
      • Implementation and Construction Tools
      • Data Modeling Tools
      • Deployment Tools
      • Libraries
      • Management Utilities
      • Operations, Administration, and Management (OA&M) Utilities
      • Quality of Service Manager Utilities
      • Copy Management Utilities
      • Storage Management Utilities
    • Application Platform
      • Software Engineering Services
      • Security Services
      • Location and Directory Services
      • Human Interaction Services
      • Data Interchange Services
      • Data Management Services
      • Additional Operating System Services
    • Qualities
    • Footnotes
• Architecture Board
  • Role
  • Responsibilities
  • Setting Up the Architecture Board
    • Triggers
    • Size of the Board
    • Board Structure
  • Operation of the Architecture Board
    • General
    • Preparation
    • Agenda
      • Minutes of Previous Meeting
      • Requests for Change
      • Dispensations
      • Compliance Assessments
      • Dispute Resolution
      • Architecture Strategy and Direction Documentation
      • Actions Assigned
      • Contract Documentation Management
      • Any Other Business (AOB)
      • Schedule of Meetings
• Architecture Compliance
  • Introduction
  • Terminology - The Meaning of Architecture Compliance
  • Project Impact Assessments (Project Slices)
    • Introduction
    • Sources
  • Architecture Compliance Reviews
    • Purpose
    • Timing
    • Governance and Personnel Scenarios
  • Architecture Compliance Review Process
    • Overview
    • Roles
    • Steps
  • Architecture Compliance Review Checklists
    • Hardware and Operating System Checklist
    • Software Services and Middleware Checklist
    • Applications Checklists
      • Infrastructure (Enterprise Productivity) Applications
      • Business Applications
      • Application Integration Approach
    • Information Management Checklists
      • Data Values
      • Data Definition
      • Security/Protection
      • Hosting, Data Types, and Sharing
      • Common Services
      • Access Method
    • Security Checklist
    • System Management Checklist
    • System Engineering/Overall Architecture Checklists
      • General
      • Processors/Servers/Clients
      • Client
      • Application Server
      • Data Server
      • COTS (where applicable)
    • System Engineering/Methods & Tools Checklist
  • Architecture Compliance Review Guidelines
    • Guidelines for Tailoring the Checklists
    • Guidelines for Conducting Architecture Compliance Reviews
• Architecture Contracts
  • Role
  • Contents
    • Statement of Architecture Work
    • Contract between Architecture Design and Development Partners
    • Contract between Architecting Function and Business Users
  • Relationship to Architecture Governance
• Architecture Governance
  • Introduction
    • Levels of Governance within the Enterprise
    • The Nature of Governance
      • Governance: A Generic Perspective
      • The Characteristics of Governance
    • Technology Governance
    • IT Governance
      • An IT Governance Framework - COBIT
    • Architecture Governance: Overview
      • Architecture Governance Characteristics
      • Architecture Governance as a Board-Level Responsibility
      • TOGAF and Architecture Governance
  • Architecture Governance Framework
    • Architecture Governance Framework - Conceptual Structure
      • Key Concepts
      • Key Architecture Governance Processes
      • Policy Management and Take-On
      • Compliance
      • Dispensation
      • Monitoring and Reporting
      • Business Control
      • Environment Management
    • Architecture Governance Framework - Organizational Structure
      • Overview
      • Key Areas
      • Operational Benefits
  • Architecture Governance in Practice
    • Architecture Governance - Key Success Factors
    • Elements of an Effective Architecture Governance Strategy
      • Architecture Governance and Corporate Politics
      • Key Strategic Elements
• Architecture Maturity Models
  • Overview
  • Background
  • The US DoC ACMM Framework
    • Overview
    • Elements of the ACMM
    • Example: IT Architecture Process Maturity Levels
      • Level 0: None
      • Level 1: Initial
      • Level 2: Under Development
      • Level 3: Defined
      • Level 4: Managed
      • Level 5: Optimizing
  • Capability Maturity Models Integration (CMMI)
    • Introduction
    • The SCAMPI Method
  • Conclusions
    • Footnotes
• Architecture Patterns
  • Introduction
    • Background
    • Content of a Pattern
    • Terminology
      • Architecture Patterns and Design Patterns
      • Patterns and the Architecture Continuum
      • Patterns and Views
      • Patterns and Business Scenarios
    • Architecture Patterns in Use
  • US Treasury Architecture Development Guidance (TADG)
    • TADG Pattern Content
    • TADG Architecture Patterns
  • IBM Patterns for e-Business
  • Some Pattern Resources
• Architecture Principles
  • Introduction
  • Characteristics of Architecture Principles
  • Components of Architecture Principles
  • Developing Architecture Principles
    • Qualities of Principles
  • Applying Architecture Principles
  • Example Set of Architecture Principles
    • Business Principles
    • Data Principles
    • Application Principles
    • Technical Principles
• Architecture Skills Framework
  • Introduction
  • The Need for an IT Architecture Skills Framework
    • Definitional Rigor
    • The Basis of an Internal Architecture Practice
  • Goals/Rationale
    • Enterprise Certification of IT Architects
    • Specific Benefits
  • IT Architecture Role and Skill Categories
    • Overview
    • TOGAF Roles
    • Categories of Skills
    • Proficiency Levels
  • IT Architecture Role and Skill Definitions
    • Generic Skills
    • Business Skills & Methods
    • Enterprise Architecture Skills
    • Program or Project Management Skills
    • IT General Knowledge Skills
    • Technical IT Skills
    • Legal Environment
  • Generic Role and Skills of the IT Architect
    • Generic Role
    • Characterization in Terms of the Enterprise Continuum
    • Key Characteristics of an IT Architect
      • Skills and Experience in Producing Designs
      • Extensive Technical Breadth, with Technical Depth in One or a Few Disciplines
      • Method-Driven Approach to Execution
      • Full Project Scope Experience
      • Leadership
      • Personal and Professional Skills
      • Skills and Experience in One or More Industries
  • Conclusions
• Developing Architecture Views
  • The Role of Architecture Views
    • Introduction
    • TOGAF and Standards for IT Architecture Description
    • A Note on Terminology
  • Basic Concepts
    • A Simple Example of a Viewpoint and View
  • Developing Views in the ADM
    • General Guidelines
    • View Creation Process
  • Core Taxonomy of Architecture Views
    • Overview
    • Stakeholders
    • Views/Viewpoints
    • Description
  • Views, Tools, and Languages
    • Overview
  • Views and Viewpoints
    • Example of Views and Viewpoints
    • Views and Viewpoints in Information Systems
    • The Need for a Common Language and Interoperable Tools for Architecture Description
  • Conclusions
  • Developing a Business Architecture View
    • Stakeholder and Concerns
    • Modeling the View
    • Key Issues
  • Developing an Enterprise Security View
    • Stakeholder and Concerns
    • Modeling the View
    • Basic Concepts
      • Information Domains
      • Strict Isolation
      • Absolute Protection
    • Security Generic Architecture View
    • Security Services Allocation
      • Operating System Services
      • Network Services
      • System Security Management Services
  • Developing a Software Engineering View
    • Stakeholders and Concerns
      • Development Approach
      • Software Modularity and Re-Use
      • Portability
      • Migration and Interoperability
    • Key Issues
      • Data-Intensive Versus Information-Intensive Software Systems
      • Achieving Interoperability
      • Software Tiers
      • Two-Tier
      • Three-Tier
      • Five-Tier
      • Some Uses of a Data Access Tier
      • One Possible Instantiation of a Data Access Interface
      • DAIs Enable Flexibility
      • Distribution
      • The Infrastructure Bus
    • Conclusion
  • Developing a System Engineering View
    • Stakeholder and Concerns
    • Key Issues
      • Client/Server Model
      • Master/Slave and Hierarchic Models
      • Peer-to-Peer Model
      • Distributed Object Management Model
  • Developing a Communications Engineering View
    • Stakeholder and Concerns
    • Key Issues
      • Communications Infrastructure
      • Communications Models
      • The OSI Reference Model
      • Communications Framework
      • Allocation of Services to Components
  • Developing a Data Flow View
    • Stakeholder and Concerns
    • Modeling the View
    • Key Issues
      • Database Management Systems
      • Database Models
      • Distributed DBMSs
      • Distributed Heterogeneous DBMSs
      • Data Dictionary/Directory Systems
      • Data Administration
      • Repository
      • Database Administration
      • Data Security
  • Developing an Enterprise Manageability View
    • Stakeholders and Concerns
    • Modeling the View
    • Key Issues
  • Developing an Acquirer's View
    • Stakeholders and Concerns
    • Modeling the View
    • Key Issues
    • Footnotes
• Building Blocks
  • Overview
  • Introduction to Building Blocks
    • Overview
    • Generic Characteristics
    • Architecture Building Blocks
      • Characteristics
      • Specification Content
    • Solution Building Blocks
      • Characteristics
      • Specification Content
  • Building Blocks and the ADM
    • Basic Principles
      • Building Blocks in Architecture Design
      • Building Block Design
    • Building Block Specification Process in the ADM
    • Levels of Modeling
      • Mapping the Modeling Levels to the ADM
  • Building Blocks Example
    • Introduction
    • Structure
    • Background to the Example
    • Business Process Level (Phase B)
    • Technical Functionality and Constraints Level (Phases B, C, & D)
      • Assumptions of Required Technical Functionality
    • Architectural Model Level (Phases B, C, and D)
      • Customer Information System Building Block Specification
      • Description
      • Mandated Building Blocks
      • Map to Business Organization Entities and Policies
    • Opportunity Identification (Phase E)
    • Re-Use of Building Blocks in Other Projects (Phases F to G)
• Business Process Domain Views
  • Introduction
  • Role
• Business Scenarios
  • Introduction
  • Benefits of Business Scenarios
  • Creating the Business Scenario
    • The Overall Process
    • Gathering
    • Analyzing
    • Reviewing
  • Contents of a Business Scenario
  • Contributions to the Business Scenario
  • Business Scenarios and the TOGAF ADM
  • Guidelines on Developing Business Scenarios
    • General Guidelines
    • Questions to Ask for Each Area
      • Identifying, Documenting, and Ranking the Problem
      • Identifying the Business & Technical Environment, and Documenting in Models
      • Identifying and Documenting Objectives
      • Identifying Human Actors and their Place in the Business Model
      • Identifying Computer Actors and their Place in the Technology Model
      • Documenting Roles, Responsibilities, Measures of Success, Required Scripts
      • Checking for Fitness-for-Purpose, and refining if necessary
  • Guidelines on Business Scenario Documentation
    • Textual Documentation
    • Business Scenario Models
  • Guidelines on Goals and Objectives
    • The Importance of Goals
    • The Importance of SMART Objectives
      • Example of Making Objectives SMART
    • Categories of Goals and Objectives
      • Goal: Improve Business Process Performance
      • Goal: Decrease Costs
      • Goal: Improve Business Operations
      • Goal: Improve Management Efficacy
      • Goal: Reduce Risk
      • Goal: Improve Effectiveness of IT Organization
      • Goal: Improve User Productivity
      • Goal: Improve Portability and Scalability
      • Goal: Improve Interoperability
      • Goal: Increase Vendor Independence
      • Goal: Reduce Lifecycle Costs
      • Goal: Improve Security
      • Goal: Improve Manageability
  • Summary
• Case Studies
  • The Role of Case Studies
  • Dairy Farm Group (Hong Kong)
  • Department of Social Security (UK)
    • Organizational Context
    • Existing IT
    • Strategic Objectives
    • The Accord Project
    • The Need for a New Architectural Framework
    • CISITAF Documentation Set
    • Technical Reference Model
    • Standards Information Base
    • Architecture Development Process
    • Architecture Views
    • Model Technical Architecture
    • Using the CISITAF
  • Litton PRC (US)
  • JEDMICS
    • Background
    • Definition of Existing Environment in Existing Terms
    • Restatement of Existing Environment in TOGAF Terms
    • Views, Constraints, and External Environments
      • Operations View
      • Management View
      • Security View
      • Constraints
      • Goals
      • External Environments
    • Target Architecture
    • Migration
  • Ministry of Defence (UK)
    • Executive Summary
    • Laying the Foundations
    • Constructing the Model
    • Building the Framework
    • Defining an Architecture
    • The Way Forward
  • NATO (Belgium)
  • Police IT Organization (UK)
    • Police IT
    • Objectives of NSPIS
    • Purpose
    • NSPIS Technical Architecture Manual
    • Applying the Framework
    • NSPIS Technical Reference Model
    • Interoperability
    • Technical Requirements and Views
    • The Architecture in Action
  • QA Consulting
  • Statskonsult (Norway)
    • Norway Streamlines Government Processes by Going Online
    • Working with The Open Group to Plan the Future
    • An Internet DialTone Framework as Easy-to-Use as the Telephone
  • Westpac (Australia)
    • Footnotes
• Glossary
  • AC
  • ACSE
  • Ada
  • ADM
  • ANSI
  • API
  • APP
  • Application
  • Application Platform
  • Application Portability Profile (APP)
  • Application Program Interface (API)
  • Application Software
  • APSE
  • Architectural Framework
  • Architecture
  • Architecture, Baseline
  • Architecture Continuum
  • Architecture, Database
  • Architecture, Target
  • Architecture View
  • ASN
  • ASP
  • Availability
  • Base-Level Functions
  • Baseline
  • Batch Processing
  • Business System
  • CCITT
  • Client
  • CMIS
  • CMIP
  • COBIT
  • COBOL
  • Communications Mechanism
  • Communications Network
  • Communications Node
  • Communications System
  • Configuration Management
  • Connectivity Service
  • CORBA
  • Data Dictionary
  • Data Element
  • Database
  • Database Management System
  • Data Interchange Service
  • Data Management Service
  • DBMS
  • DCE
  • DDL
  • Default
  • Directory Service
  • DISA
  • Distributed Database
  • DMF
  • ECMA
  • EDI
  • EEI
  • End User
  • Enterprise
  • Enterprise Continuum
  • Enterprise Model
  • ERP
  • ES
  • Expand
  • External Environment Interface (EEI)
  • File
  • FIPS
  • FORTRAN
  • FTAM
  • Function
  • GNMP
  • GOSIP
  • GSS
  • GUI
  • Hardware
  • Human Computer Interface (HCI)
  • IEC
  • IEEE
  • III
  • III-RM
  • Information
  • Information Domain
  • Information System
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • Interface
  • Interoperability
  • IS
  • ISA
  • ISO
  • IT
  • ITIL
  • JTC1
  • LAN
  • Lifecycle
  • MAN
  • Metaview (also known as a Viewpoint)
  • MIS
  • MLS
  • MTA
  • Multimedia Service
  • NIST
  • NLSP
  • ODA
  • ODIF
  • OECD
  • OIW
  • OODBMS
  • Open Specifications
  • Open System
  • Open Systems Environment (OSE)
  • Operating System Service
  • ORB
  • OS
  • OSE
  • OSI
  • PEX
  • PHIGS
  • Platform
  • Portability
  • POSIX
  • Profile
  • Profiling
  • RAS
  • RDA
  • RDBMS
  • Repository
  • RM
  • RPC
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Server
  • SGML
  • SIB
  • SMAP
  • SMTP
  • SNA
  • SNMP
  • Solutions Continuum
  • SQL
  • SWG
  • System
  • System and Network Management Service
  • System Stakeholder
  • TAFIM
  • Taxonomy of Architecture Views
  • TCP/IP
  • TCSEC
  • Technical Reference Model
  • TFA
  • TLSP
  • TNI
  • TP
  • Transaction
  • Transaction Sequence
  • TRM
  • TSIG
  • UIDL
  • UIMS
  • UISRM
  • User
  • User Interface Service
  • View
  • Viewpoint (also known as a Metaview)
  • WAN
• Other Architectures and Frameworks
  • Introduction
  • C4ISR Architecture Framework
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • CORBA
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP)
    • Comparison with TOGAF
  • Federal Enterprise Architecture: Practical Guide
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • FEAF
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • ISO/IEC TR 14252 (IEEE Std 1003.0)
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • NCR Enterprise Architecture Framework
  • ISO RM-ODP
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • SPIRIT Platform Blueprint Issue 3.0
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • TAFIM
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • TEAF
    • Overview
    • Relationship to TOGAF
  • Zachman Framework
    • Relationship to TOGAF
    • Footnotes
• Tools for Architecture Development
  • Overview
  • Issues in Tool Standardization
  • Evaluation Criteria and Guidelines
    • Tool Criteria
      • Functionality
      • Key Features and Functions
      • Intuitiveness/Ease-of-Use Factors
      • Organizational Compatibility Factors
      • Tool Capacity/Scalability Constraints
      • Architecture of the Tool
      • Full Lifecycle Support
      • Interoperability Factors
      • Financial Considerations
      • Vendor Factors
    • General Pointers
• ADM and the Zachman Framework
  • Introduction
  • The Zachman Framework
  • Mapping TOGAF to the Zachman Framework
    • Preliminary Phase: Framework and Principles
    • Phase A: Architecture Vision
    • Phase B: Business Architecture
    • Phase C: Informations System Architectures: Data Architecture
    • Phase C: Informations System Architectures: Applications Architecture
    • Phase D: Technology Architecture
      • Step 1: Create a Baseline Description in the TOGAF Format
      • Step 2: Consider Different Architecture Reference Models, Viewpoints, and Tools
      • Step 3: Create an Architectural Model of Building Blocks
      • Step 4: Select the Services Portfolio Required per Building Block
      • Step 8: Conduct a Gap Analysis
      • Composite Mapping for Phase D
• INDEX

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