TOGAF Artifacts Flashcards
Describes what a “good” solution or architecture should look like. Used to evaluate
and agree an outcome for architecture decision points. Are also used as a tool to assist
in architectural governance of change initiatives.
Principles Catalogue - Preliminary Phase
The purpose is to identify the stakeholders for the architecture
engagement, their influence over the engagement, and their key questions, issues, or concerns
that must be addressed by the architecture framework.
Stakeholder Map Matrix - Architecture Vision Phase.
Provides a high-level orientation view of an enterprise and how it interacts with the outside world.
Value Chain Diagram - Architectural Vision Phase
Provides a high-level orientation of the solution that is envisaged in order to meet the objectives of the architecture engagement. Represents a “pencil sketch” of the expected solution at the outset of the engagement
Solution Concept Diagram - Architectural Vision Phase
A family of diagrams representing a definitive listing of a particular ability that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose.
Business Capability Map - Architectural Vision Phase
A model describing the rationale for how an enterprise creates, delivers, and captures value.
Business Model Diagram - Architectural Vision Phase
A family of diagrams representing a definitive listing of an end-to-end collection of value adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user.
Value Stream Map - Architectural Vision Phase
The purpose is to capture a definitive listing of all
participants that interact with IT, including users and owners of IT systems. The catalog can be referenced when developing requirements in order to test for completeness.
Organization/Actor Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this catalog is to provide a cross-organizational reference of how an organization meets its drivers in practical terms through goals, objectives, and (optionally) measures.
Driver/Goal/Objective Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this catalog is to provide a listing of all authorization levels or zones within an enterprise.
Role Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this catalog is to provide a functional decomposition in a form that can be filtered, reported on, and queried, as a supplement to graphical Functional Decomposition diagrams.
Business Service/Function Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
Provides a listing of all locations where an enterprise carries out business operations or houses architecturally relevant assets, such as data centers or end-user computing equipment.
Location Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
This catalog provides a hierarchy of processes, events that trigger processes, outputs from processes, and controls applied to the execution of processes. This catalog provides a supplement to any Process Flow diagrams that are created and allows an enterprise to filter, report, and query across organizations and processes to identify scope, commonality, or impact.
Process/Event/Control/Product Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
This catalog provides a listing of all agreed service contracts and the measures attached to those contracts. It forms the master list of service levels agreed to across the enterprise.
Contract/Measure Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
A definitive listing of particular abilities that a business may possess or exchange to achieve a specific purpose.
Business Capabilities Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
A definitive listing of end-to-end collections of value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or end user.
Value Stream Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
A definitive listing of end-to-end collections of the different stages for the value-adding activities that create an overall result for a customer, stakeholder, or and user; it includes the following metamodel entities:
■ Business Capability
■ Value Stream
Value Stream Stages Catalog - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this matrix is to depict the relationship interactions between organizations and business functions across the enterprise.
It is important as it helps to highlight value chain and dependencies across organizations.
Business Interaction Matrix - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this matrix is to show which actors perform which roles, supporting definition of security and skills requirements.
Understanding these relationships is a key supporting tool in definition of training needs, user security settings, and organizational change management.
Actor/Role Matrix - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this matrix is to show the capabilities required to support each stage of a value stream.
Value Stream/Capability Matrix - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this matrix is to show the capabilities required to support specific strategy statements.
Strategy/Capability Matrix - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose of this matrix is to show the organization elements that implement each capability. This matrix includes the following metamodel entities:
■ Business Capability
■ Value Stream
■ Organization Unit
Capability/Organization Matrix - Business Architecture Phase
This diagram describes the links between business goals, organizational units, business functions, and services, and maps these functions to the technical components delivering the required capability.
The diagram provides a clear traceability between a technical component and the business goal that it satisfies, while also demonstrating ownership of the services identified.
The diagram demonstrates only the key facts linking organization unit functions to delivery services and is utilized as a communication platform for senior-level (CxO) stakeholders.
Business Footprint Diagram - Business Architecture Phase
This diagram shows the information needed to support one or more business services. The diagram shows what data is consumed by or produced by a business service and may also show the source of information.
Business Service/Information Diagram - Business Architecture Phase
The purpose this diagram is to show on a single page the capabilities of an organization that are relevant to the consideration of an architecture. By examining the capabilities of an organization from a functional perspective, it is possible to quickly develop models of what the organization does without being dragged into extended debate on how the organization does it.
Functional Decomposition Diagram - Business Architecture Phase