A Scrapbook of Past Projects

Enterprise Architecture has a reputation problem. Not because it lacks rigor or structure — quite the opposite. But because too often, architecture feels like something that exists next to the organization rather than within it. Diagrams live in tools, standards sit in documents, and architectural knowledge slowly fragments across folders, platforms, and people’s heads. It’s kind of like an intangible scrapbook of past projects.
The Architecture Repository, as described in the TOGAF® Standard, is an attempt to fix that. Not by introducing yet another tool or database, but by introducing a way of thinking. A way of treating architecture as a coherent, evolving body of knowledge — one that can be reused, governed, and continuously refined.

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