Business Reference Model

Business Reference Model Business architecture is a fairly budding new area within the architecture job family. In the past decade the practice of business architecture is one than has found a place into most practices, but when analyzed in more depth, we find that the focus and boundaries of the each practice differed greatly. this was the impetus for…

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Federated Governance

Federated Governance This is a hot topic amongst my colleagues. Federated governance take many different forms and the question remains, how much is enough to maintain the value of Enterprise Architecture? The landscape in a federated world is affected by the maturity of the Architecture practice within the Corporation. This is true of both centralized and federated corporations, however…

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Capability Analysis

Capability Analysis   Enterprise architecture has a major function of developing artifacts on current and future state. The TOGAF ADM describes artifacts like target architectures, reference architectures and domain architectures. In my experience as an Enterprise Architect, we attempted a new way of looking at the domains that we supported, namely Capability target architectures. These were targets that absolved…

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