TOGAF 9.0 in Relation to the Views and Models of This Guide

We have considered various concepts relevant to EA project management and planning. In the commercial EA world, The Open Group developed its own architecture framework, which initially was based on a Department of Defense IT model and has gone through several iterations to its current version, TOGAF 9. This version of the TOGAF is a comprehensive guide that provides a systems development lifecycle approach, known as the ADM, to developing an EA for organizations. The TOGAF also contains a number of metamodels and Reference Models that especially at the IT-level provide guidance.

Although discussed in more detail below these components comprise six sections that are briefly described as: the Architecture Development Methodology or ADM (commonly called “the crop cycle” as a type of system development lifecycle), the Enterprise Continuum (a repository of architecture information that includes an architecture continuum and a related solutions continuum ranging from the most common to organizational specific), an Architecture Content Framework that contains TOGAF views and associated artifacts, TOGAF Reference Models that comprise the Foundation Architecture of the Architecture Continuum (this includes a Technical Reference Model and an Information Reference Model [3IRM], which is a closer level view of the TRM, ADM (Architecture Development Methodology) Guidelines and Techniques that comprise a set of best practices and architectural petitioning analogous to segment architectures, and an Architecture Capability Framework that provides a method for assessing the readiness of an organization of EA and related governance structures.