TOGAF® Version 9.1 - A Pocket Guide (eBook)

ADM Phase

Activity

Prepare the organization for successful TOGAF architecture projects. Undertake the preparation and initiation activities required to create an Architecture Capability, including the customization of TOGAF, selection of tools, and the definition of Architecture Principles.

Every stage of a TOGAF project is based on and validates business requirements.

Requirements are identified, stored, and fed into and out of the relevant ADM phases, which dispose of, address, and prioritize requirements.

Set the scope, constraints, and expectations for a TOGAF project. Create the Architecture Vision. Identify stakeholders. Validate the business context and create the Statement of Architecture Work. Obtain approvals.

Develop architectures in four domains:

1. Business

2. Information Systems – Application

3. Information Systems – Data

4. Technology

In each case, develop the Baseline and Target Architecture and analyze gaps.

Perform initial implementation planning and the identification of delivery vehicles for the building blocks identified in the previous phases. Determine whether an incremental approach is required, and if so identify Transition Architectures.

Develop detailed Implementation and Migration Plan that addresses how to move from the Baseline to the Target Architecture.

Provide architectural oversight for the implementation. Prepare and issue Architecture Contracts. Ensure that the implementation project conforms to the architecture.

Provide continual monitoring and a change management process to ensure that the architecture responds to the needs of the enterprise and maximizes the value of the architecture to the business.

Objectives

Steps

Determine the Architecture Capability desired by the organization:

•   Review the organizational context for conducting enterprise architecture

•   Identify and scope the elements of the enterprise organizations affected by the Architecture Capability

•   Identify the established frameworks, methods, and processes that intersect with the Architecture Capability

•   Establish Capability Maturity target

Establish the Architecture Capability:

•   Define and establish the Organizational Model for Enterprise Architecture

•   Define and establish the detailed process and resources for architecture governance

•   Select and implement tools that support the architecture activity

•   Define the Architecture Principles

Scope the enterprise organizations impacted

Confirm governance and support frameworks

Define and establish enterprise architecture team and organization

Identify and establish architecture principles

Tailor TOGAF and, if any, other selected Architecture Frameworks

Implement architecture tools

Inputs

Outputs

TOGAF

Other architecture framework(s)

Board strategies, business plans, business strategy, IT Strategy, business principles, business goals, and business drivers

Governance and legal frameworks

Organizational model for enterprise architecture

Tailored Architecture Framework, including architecture principles

Initial Architecture Repository

Architecture capability

Partnership and contract agreements

Existing organizational model for enterprise architecture

Existing architecture framework, if any, including:

•   Architecture method

•   Architecture content

•   Configured and deployed tools

•   Architecture Principles

•   Architecture Repository

Restatement of, or reference to, business principles, business goals, and business drivers

Request for Architecture Work

Governance Framework

Objectives

Steps

Develop a high-level aspirational vision of the capabilities and business value to be delivered as a result of the proposed enterprise architecture

Obtain approval for a Statement of Architecture Work that defines a program of works to develop and deploy the architecture outlined in the Architecture Vision

Establish the architecture project

Identify stakeholders, concerns, and business requirements

Confirm and elaborate business goals, business drivers, and constraints

Evaluate business capabilities

Assess readiness for business transformation

Define scope

Confirm and elaborate architecture principles, including business principles

Develop Architecture Vision

Define the Target Architecture value propositions and KPIs Identify the...