Using Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in an Agile Way
Ensuring your organization follows best practices, frameworks, tools, and deliverables recommended like TOGAF is a daunting task.
Ensuring your organization follows best practices, frameworks, tools, and deliverables recommended by an Enterprise Architecture framework like TOGAF is a daunting task. Often, we start with high-energy and commitment but the journey to get it in practice in your organization is not an easy path.
A pragmatic and progressive way towards building an enterprise architecture capability is similar to Agile methodology where we build the product incrementally. Considering a similar mindset, we can incrementally build enterprise capability and every cycle of TOGAF ADM helps towards achieving the same.
Key idea is to identify the top three deliverables or artifacts relevant to your organization and also use TOGAF framework in conjunction with the Agile framework in practice.
Here is an example of going through various phases of TOGAF and brainstorm on identifying Top 3 Deliverables as an output of the first cycle across various phases.
In conclusion, starting small and build on top of it is key to the success of getting enterprise architecture practice gets established in your organization.
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