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By Pascal de Koning, KPN You want to put your company’s business strategy into action. What’s the best way to accomplish this? This can be done in a structured manner by using an Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF®. TOGAF® offers …
Covering the basics: keep track of requirements
This is the last posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM. In this final post we zoom in on the Requirements Management phase which is central to the ADM. We will start this post with a discussion of the …
Year after year I am finding that Enterprise Architecture certifications are becoming more important to architects. Back in 2007, I remember reading an article from Gene Leganza called, “Is EA Certification Important?”. In that article he stated that 65% of…
On December 1st we see the first revised TOGAF 9 specification since its release in 2009. This brings TOGAF to version 9.1 with 450 changes that addressed 400 comments from EA practitioners. This release promises downward compatibility to the TOGAF…
By Andrew Josey and Garry Doherty, The Open Group We know that TOGAF® isn’t perfect. In fact, it probably never will be, but sometimes, especially after a major release, it’s a good idea to stop and look backwards after its been … Continue …
This is the eight posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM which covers phase H – Architecture Change Management. Phase H is not really a phase, but more a continuous activity of monitoring change as well as establishing procedures for managing this ch…
By Serge Thorn, Architecting the Enterprise I have observed many situations where a c-level person was supposed to document an IT Strategy in a short period of time, in order to prepare the following year’s annual budget. Very often, they … Con…
This is the seventh posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM. In the previous posts we zoomed in on defining a vision, modeling baseline and target architectures, finding delivery vehicles for implementing the target architecture as well as defining a se…
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Security, The Open Group 2011 confirmed what many in the Enterprise Architecture industry have feared – data breaches are on the rise. It’s not just the number and cost of data breaches, but the sheer … Continu…
This is the sixth posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM. In the previous post we zoomed in on finding opportunities that help realize a desired vision. In this post we pick up the thread and focus on translating these opportunities and solutions to a …
Business Technology Management (BTM) is not a methodology but I would say a concept, or eventually the aggregation of several guidelines and techniques. It is also described as a management science which aims to unify business and technology business s…
As more enterprises engage in public, private and hybrid cloud computing services, they face new sets of security and compliance challenges. As a result of the rapid transition and growing capabilities of the cloud, enterprises must evolve their securi…