2024-03-19

Togaf and Enterprise architecture interesting links 1

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Today I have produced a shortlist of links interesting about Togaf and Enterprise architecture.

A nice quote from Angelo Andreetto, Senior Enterprise Architect for Zurich Insurance Group in Zurich, Switzerland

Digital transformation is a fantastic way to rethink Enterprise Architecture,

Communication and post review

  • an interesting article explaining the limits of the Togaf methodology. here

People actually think that TOGAF must be right because it is a compendium, very large at that, of IT project good practices, because it has so many brand names behind, because of its many followers in IT, because of its many vocal backers whose interests are intertwined with TOGAF, because it has the dominant training and certification market share, because it has its own conferences.

This article is particularly interesting since it explains the limits of EA when this domain is understood as basic documentation or a fixed organization.

EA fails when enterprises are treated as discrete systems that can be reduced into smaller problem sets, as traditional engineering approaches or some EA frameworks would have us believe.

  • Agile, TOGAF, and Enterprise Architecture: Will They Blend? article

“Is enterprise still relevant when we do Agile?” and “what is the role of an enterprise architect in an Agile organization?” That the question this article is trying to answer.

  • For people that are new to the concepts of Enterprise Architecture, this Microsoft MSDN page is useful. MSDN

Indeed there is a comparison of the Top Four Enterprise- methodologies. The information there are quite old (2007) though relevant. I am particularly fond of real battlefield experiences on using such methodologies. This article is a good start.

These slides illustrate how to implement TOGAF by delivering some key points, in particular the metamodel.

  • Togaf posters

This site offers some posters to have a better understanding of Togaf and the Enterprise Architecture Togaf posters

This document is an implementation of Togaf 9 by Birmingham University. It is full of samples and good information to exploit 🙂 Birmingham Enterprise Architecture Framework

I am loving metrics and this article was really great: 7 Key architecture metrics – IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as a Percentage of Revenue – Total Cost Savings (TCS) – Percentage Of Spend That’s Strategic (PSTS) – Common Services Compliance Rate (CSCR) – Architectural Due Diligence Rate (ADDR) – Sunset Technology (ST) – Business Specific

Finally to conclude a TOP 8 of Enterprise risks 8 Enterprise Architecture risks

If your Enterprise Architect can’t describe five cases where Enterprise has failed miserably, it is time to find a new Enterprise Architect.

  • Security vulnerabilities and exposures: EA and security should work together to bring state of the art security to the whole company
  • Distracting critical staff: Stakeholders often complain that Enterprise is cumbersome
  • Low adoption rates: It is much easier to define an enterprise than to implement the governance required to implement it.
  • Increasing solution costs: Enterprise programs are often guilty of over-engineering.
  • Decreasing user acceptance: Users often complain that common solutions are less adapted to the needs of their business unit.
  • Creating dependencies: common solutions also introduce new dependencies between business units and can create new bottlenecks.
  • Project delays: EA processes can delay projects and add excessive overhead by adding unnecessary checkpoints.
  • Be careful what you measure: if EA introduces business performance metrics, metrics may also introduce risks and weird behaviors.

Sylvain Leroy

Senior Software Quality Manager and Solution Architect in Switzerland, I have previously created my own company, Tocea, in Software Quality Assurance. Now I am offering my knowledge and services in a small IT Consulting company : Byoskill and a website www.byoskill.com Currently living in Lausanne (CH)

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