TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) is a comprehensive framework that helps organizations develop and manage their enterprise architecture. It provides a structured approach to planning, designing, implementing, and governing enterprise architectures, promoting the reuse of architectural resources.
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TOGAF is an Open Group framework that brings together methods and terminology for developing and governing enterprise architectures.
The Open Group established TOGAF by developing and standardizing approaches to enterprise architecture. The framework connects architecture domains, a development cycle and governance so that architecture work can become comparable and repeatable across organizations and initiatives.
TOGAF moves from an architecture vision and requirements through business, information-systems and technology descriptions to a target architecture and implementation. Its Architecture Development Method is applied iteratively; governance, stakeholders and reuse accompany the phases. TOGAF is an adaptable framework, not a ready-made organizational design.
A shared framework structures architecture development and decision governance.
Iterative architecture phases connect vision, requirements, target state and implementation.
Organizations adapt methods, roles and artefacts to their size, maturity and change initiatives.
TOGAF helps structure architecture decisions across domains and initiatives and anchor their implementation in the organization.
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