Overview of TOGAF Kirk Keller, DoIT Enterprise Architect Overview of TOGAF - Kirk Keller, University of Missouri Division of IT, Enterprise Architect - [email protected] 1 5/22/22
Overview of togaf
Jun 12, 2015
This is a very short introduction to The Open Group Architecture Framework -- a framework for enterprise architecture. It is meant to provide an executive summary of what TOGAF is and also provide a few reasons why you should use it.
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April 13, 2023 Overview of TOGAF - Kirk Keller, University of Missouri Division of IT, Enterprise Architect - [email protected]
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Overview of TOGAFKirk Keller, DoIT Enterprise Architect
April 13, 2023 Overview of TOGAF - Kirk Keller, University of Missouri Division of IT, Enterprise Architect - [email protected]
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Purpose of this presentation
• Executive summary of TOGAF• Only covers the main parts of the TOGAF framework• Meant to be a first presentation to introduce people to TOGAF• The figures you’ll see are from TOGAF 9.1• HTML version of TOGAF 9.1 can be found here:• http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/arch/index.html
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TOGAF is not a recipe (it’s an inventory)
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)• A framework for enterprise architecture• TOGAF provides a high-level ‘inventory’ of:
• Architecture development processes and content• What’s needed to classify and manage EA content• What’s needed to establish an EA capability
• As an organization develops EA capabilities, it can look to TOGAF to identify gaps in development.• Do we have all the processes in place?• What information are we capturing and using?• What are we doing with the information we capture?• Who is deciding what is being done where?
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TOGAF provides common ground
• TOGAF is a popular framework • 25,000 TOGAF Certified individuals as of Sept. 3,
2013• Includes people at Oracle, Cisco, IBM, BP, etc.
• Organizations can more easily rally around a commonly understood terms• Many vendors in EA space understand TOGAF
• Many have solutions tailored to TOGAF terminology
• TOGAF provides a measuring stick on EA completeness
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Parts of TOGAF• Essential parts of EA:
• capture business needs to direct IT
• develop new services to enhance business capabilities
• provide information to business vital to setting future business vision.
• TOGAF describes these parts• starting with processes &
content
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Architecture development method (part II)• Describes the phases any architecture
change may go through.• Some architecture work may only use some
phases at certain points in time.• Architecture work may focus on:
• capturing the strategic focus of a change.• understanding one or more levels of
architecture for a solution• planning how a change will occur• implementing a plan
• TOGAF describes these phases and their associated activities.
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Architecture content framework (part IV)• Architecture work creates
artifacts to capture content.• These may be:
• Diagrams of business processes• Standards that govern• Gaps showing what we have and
what we need
• TOGAF organizes what these artifacts may be and what information they should contain.
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EA: managing content
• EA work is not done when content is created• Daily operations update
content• Content informs
business of current state• TOGAF explains this
continuum of content and what tools can help manage it.
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Enterprise continuum and tools (part V)
• Findings of EA should provide content we use daily.• Content is generalized to act as future
templates.• Templates are adapted for specific
use.• Reusable content guides and speeds
future planning.• Mapped solutions inform business of
current state• TOGAF suggests how this content
should be classified and what tools could be used
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EA: capability
• EA processes and products are useless without capacity to create and use them.• Setting goals on capacity
helps level-set expectations of EA• A well-supported EA effort
ensures meeting of business vision.• TOGAF explains what is
needed for capacity.
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Architecture capability framework (part VII)
• To do EA, there are critical capabilities you must have in place.• Skills and knowledge• Roles and responsibilities• Architecture repository for content• Essential connections to
project/portfolio mgmt.• Governance bodies
• TOGAF explains these capabilities
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TOGAF = Inventory of EA
• Adoption of TOGAF saves time by providing a framework of what it takes to establish EA capabilities in an organization.
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