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TOGAF is intended for use with any other architecture framework, and its documentation repeatedly
states that TOGAF should be customized to meet organization-specific needs. But pre-defined architecture
frameworks like TOGAF are not designed in a way that makes it easy to reconfigure their content to your
specific needs! How do you combine elements from two or more frameworks? Our poster explains!
EA is a complex subject. A framework is a thinking & management tool, used to make sense of this complexity & manage changes
to architectures. TOGAF itself is really a framework of frameworks rather than a single framework. This is because it is
impossible to visualize the complexity of EA in a single diagram or framework there would be too many dimensions or factors to
consider them all at the same time!
An architecture framework establishes a common practice
for using, creating, interpreting, and analyzing architecture
descriptions within a particular domain of application or
stakeholder community. ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 formalizes a
framework as a set of predefined, interconnected viewpoints.
[Source: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard]
Combining TOGAF with other architecture frameworks is like comparing apples with oranges it is hard to see the similarities,
overlaps or differences.
We need a common set of fundamental factors a meta-framework that makes it easy to deconstruct pre-defined frameworks
(such as TOGAF or Zachman) and combine the elements that we need to create a set of multiple integrated architecture
frameworks (MIAF) that are designed to work together.
GOVERNANCE FW.
PROCESS
PRESENTATION
RESPONSABILITY
EVOLUTION
UNDERSTANDING
PROCESS
CONTENT FW.
CATEGORIES
ROADMAP FW.
CATEGORIES
EVOLUTION
KNOWLEDGE
Meta-framework of
fundamental factors in EA
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STAKEHOLDER FW.
CATEGORIES
RESPONSABILITY
UNDERSTANDING
CATEGORIES
METAMODEL FW.
META LEVELS
META LEVELS
RESPONSABILITY
CATEGORIES
(subject areas)
DEVELOPEMENT FW.
PROCESS
CATEGORIES
CATEGORIES
(subject areas)
Organisation
Motivation
Capability
Responsibility
Location
Business
Distribution
Function
Process
Data
Application
Technology
Technology Components
Platform Services
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Source: The eight fundamental factors in EA Information First, Roger & Elaine Evernden, Butterworth Heinemann, 2003