TOGAF 9.2 - ADM - Preliminary Phase

1. Preliminary Phase
Review organizational context
Identify and scope the elements of the enterprise organizations
Identify the established frameworks, methods, and processes
Establish Capability Maturity target
Objectives
Determine desired
Architecture Capability
Establish
Architecture Capability
Define and establish Organizational Model
Define and establish detailed process and resources
Select and implement tools
Define Architecture Principles
TOGAF Library
Other architecture frameworks
Inputs
External Reference
Materials
Non-Architectural
Board strategies
IT strategy
Business strategy
Board business plans
Business principles
Business drivers
Business goals
Major business frameworks
Architecture capability
e.g. Project/portfolio management
Governance and legal frameworks Including Architecture Governance strategy
, when pre-existing
Organizational Model
Existing Architecture Framework, if any, including
Architectural Inputs
Roles and responsibilities for architecture teams
Budget requirements
Maturity assessment, gaps, and resolution approach
Scope of organizations impacted
Governance and support strategy
Configured and deployed tools
Architecture Principles
Architecture content
Architecture method
Architecture Repository
Scope of organizations impacted
Maturity assessment, gaps, and resolution approach
Roles and responsibilities for architecture teams
Constraints on architecture work
Outputs
Organizational Model
Tailored Architecture Framework
Tailored architecture method
Tailored architecture content (deliverables and artifacts)
Architecture Principles
Configured and deployed tools
Constraints on architecture work
Constraints on architecture work
Identify core enterprise
Identify soft enterprise
Identify extended enterprise
Steps
Scope the Enterprise Organizations Impacted
Confirm Governance and Support Frameworks
Identify communities involved
Identify governance involved, including legal frameworks and geographies
Determine existing enterprise and business capability
Conduct an Enterprise Architecture/business change maturity assessment,
Identify gaps in existing work areas
Determine constraints on Enterprise Architecture work
Define and Establish Enterprise Architecture Team and Organization
Identify and Establish Architecture Principles
Allocate key roles and responsibilities for Enterprise Architecture Capability management and governance
Define requests for change to existing business programs and projects
Inform existing Enterprise Architecture and IT architecture work of stakeholder requirements
Request assessment of impact on their plans and work
Determine constraints on Enterprise Architecture work
Review and agree with sponsors and board
Assess budget requirements
Identify common areas of interest
Identify any critical differences and conflicts of interest
Produce requests for change to stakeholder activities
Tailor the TOGAF Framework and, if any, Other Selected Architecture Framework(s
Terminology Tailoring
Process Tailoring
Content Tailoring
Develop a Strategy and Implementation Plan for Tools and Techniques
Links to (project and service) portfolio management processes
Links to project lifecycle
Links to operations handover processes
Links to operational management processes (including configuration management,
change management, and service management)
Links to procurement processes
Initial Architecture Repository, populated with framework content
Catalogs: Principles catalog
Restatement of, or reference to, business principles, business goals, and business drivers
Request for Architecture Work
Architecture Governance Framework
Approach
Defining the enterprise
Defining the framework to be used
Identifying key drivers and elements in the organizational context
Defining the requirements for architecture work
Defining the Architecture Principles that will inform any architecture work
Planning for Enterprise Architecture/Business Change Maturity Evaluation
Commercial models for Enterprise Architecture and budgetary plans, if existing
Stakeholders for architecture in the enterprise; their key issues and concerns
The intentions and culture of the organization, as captured within -
Current processes that support execution of change and operation of the enterprise -
Baseline Architecture landscape,
including the state of the enterprise
and also how the landscape is currently
represented in documentation form
Skills and capabilities of the enterprise
and specific organizations that will be
adopting the framework
business imperatives
business strategies
board business directives
business principles
business goals
business drivers
Current project management frameworks and methods
Current systems management frameworks and methods
Current methods for architecture description
Current project portfolio management processes and methods
Current application portfolio management processes and methods
Current technology portfolio management processes and methods
Current information portfolio management processes and methods
Current systems design and development frameworks and methods
Specific areas to consider would include -
Review of the organizational context should
provide valuable requirements on how to tailor
the architecture framework in terms of:
Level of formality and rigor to be applied
Level of sophistication and expenditure required
Touch-points with other organizations, processes, roles, and responsibilities
Focus of content coverage
Management Frameworks
Defining the relationships between
management frameworks
Project/Portfolio Management Methods
Business Capability Management
Operations Management Methods
Solution Development Methods
TOGAF 9.2 : ADM : Preliminery Phase
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