Intro Flashcards
What is TOGAF?
TOGAF is an architecture framework, and is the leading standard for enterprise architecture.
What is the purpose of TOGAF?
Like other architecture frameworks, the main purpose of TOGAF is to define the desired future state
of an enterprise and define the steps required to reach that future state from where we are
in the present state.
How does TOGAF define the future state of the enterprise?
TOGAF defines the future state of the enterprise, what it calls the target architecture, using
a process called the ADM, the Architecture Development Method.
The ADM is the central thesis, it’s the core, it’s the heart of TOGAF.
TOGAF contains a lot of other things to support this process, like a way of storing and classifying
documents, a governance model, reference models, and a way of developing other architecture
capabilities among many more.
Why does a company need architecture?
The architecture function is what connects the overall long term strategy of the enterprise
as defined by the executives and the board of directors into an actual plan that gets
implemented evenly across the organization.
How does a high level executive strategy get turned into actual tasks to be implemented?
Architects designs the plan using the ADM process.
TOGAF and then the ADM is a process for turning the overall executive strategy into a work plan that gets implemented.
Architecture vision is the goal. Once you reach it, you repeat the process.
