TOGAF® ADM Phase F – Craft the Implementation Plan TOGAF ADM Phase F crafts the Implementation Plan. Executing Implementation Plans are how enterprises directs change. A Phase F Implementation Plan will use one, two, twenty or more change projects. It doesn’t matter whether you are using Portfolio or Program to manage change. Craft the Implementation Plan to support your organization’s improvement. TOGAF 10 is clear, the purpose of enterprise architecture is to guide effective change. Effective change means we execute plans and projects. TOGAF ADM Phase F represents a transition from where the enterprise architecture process transitions to the control of change leaders. Without executing change, enterprise architecture is a pointless activity. TOGAF separates the Phase F Implementation Plan from the Phase E Architecture Roadmap […]

TOGAF® ADM Phase E – Build the Architecture Roadmap TOGAF ADM Phase E develops the architecture roadmap. Useful architecture roadmaps ensure the enterprise architects guide effective change. Without a roadmap, enterprise architecture is just a knowledge building exercise. TOGAF Phase E and architecture roadmaps deliver on the purpose of enterprise architecture. They enable effective change. Guiding effective change requires the Architecture Roadmap developed in TOGAF ADM Phase E. Developing four foundational enterprise architecture domains. To create a complete enterprise architecture is pointless without the architecture roadmap. TOGAF 10 is direct – enterprise architecture guides effective change, and the architecture roadmap is central to change planning. Digital transformation requires orchestrating change in business operations, organization design, the software portfolio, and infrastructure. You will never achieve the […]

TOGAF® ADM Phase D – Develop the Technology Architecture We develop the technology architecture in TOGAF ADM Phase D. A good technology architecture has the critical constraints on technology and infrastructure that enable your application and data architecture. Constraints that enable the choices of purchasing, integrating, and developing software. Constraints that drive you on premise, to a private cloud, our public cloud PaaS. Without these top-level constraints, detail inside any specific technology is of little practical value. The TOGAF Standard is clear about two things. First, the technology architecture to directly supports the information systems architecture (application and data) to enable the business architecture. Second, we do not develop domain architectures sequentially. Digital transformation requires the right IT Architecture. A good technology architecture is required […]

TOGAF® ADM Phase C – Develop the Application Architecture We develop information systems architecture, which is made of the application architecture and data architecture, in TOGAF ADM Phase C. Application Architecture is one of the four foundational enterprise architecture domains. TOGAF is very clear – application and data architecture are inseparable and exists to enable the business architecture. In a modern digitally transformed enterprise, choices in one architecture domain enable, deliver, or block outcomes in other domains. Business objectives depend upon the right IT Architecture. Best practice application architecture will focus on critical constraints that limit freed of choice purchasing, integrating and developing software. Application architecture will tell you when to use SaaS, buy commercial software, whether to use large suites or not, or and […]