Comments on business architecture ideas from Tom Graves
December 14, 2009
Tom Graves had an interesting (and extensive) guest post on John Polgreen’s blog. Some ideas I was glad to see him advocate:
- Describe an enterprise’s vision, mission and goals, before getting into anything related to IT.
- Use a Results Logic diagram (also known as a Program Logic Model) to confirm that an enterprise’s activities are likely to meet its mission and goals.
- The “enterprise” includes external organizations: suppliers, clients and other stakeholders. The architecture should show how they are involved, motivated and accountable. (It might not show details of how they do their business.)
On Graves’ post, I also commented about ways to customize the TOGAF ADM architecture cycle, such as having multiple governance approvals or iterations.
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