03 Key Terminology Flashcards
What is Architecture?
- The fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution.
- The structure of components, their inter-relationships, and the principles and guidelines governing their design and evolution over time
What does ADM stand for?
Architecture Development Method
What is Architecture Development Method?
The core of the TOGAF framework. A multi-phase, iterative approach to develop and use an Enterprise Architecture to shape and govern business transformation and implementation projects.
What is Architecture Domain?
The architectural area being considered. The TOGAF framework has four primary architecture domains: Business, Data, Application, and Technology. Other domains may also be considered (e.g., Security).
What is Architecture Framework?
A conceptual structure used to plan, develop, implement, govern, and sustain an architecture.
What is Architecture Vision?
A succinct description of the Target Architecture that describes its business value and the changes to the enterprise that will result from its successful deployment. It serves as an aspirational vision and a boundary for detailed architecture development.
What is a Baseline?
A specification that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon, that thereafter serves as the basis for further development or change and that can be changed only through formal change control procedures or a type of procedure such as configuration management.
What is Business Architecture?
A representation of holistic, multi-dimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders.
What is Business Capability?
A particular ability that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose.
What is a Business Model?
A model describing the rationale for how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value.
What is a Business Scenario?
A technique used to help identify, understand, and document business needs, and thereby derive the business requirements that an architecture development has to address.
What is Capability?
An ability that an organization, person, or system possesses.
Define Course of Action
Direction and focus provided by strategic goals and objectives, often to deliver the value proposition characterized in the business model.
Define Enterprise.
The highest level (typically) of description of an organization and typically covers all missions and functions. An enterprise will often span multiple organizations.
Define Information.
Any communication or representation of facts, data, or opinions, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audio-visual forms.
