Introduction to TOGAF (Part 3 of 4) Phase B, C and D

In Phase B, C & D — Business, Information & Technology Architecture TOGAF is developed based on the Architecture Vision.

Business, application and Technology Architecture describes

• Business, application and Technology Processes and People involved in it.
• Relationship between business processes and people.
• Principles governing business processes, its design and evolution

Objectives

• Develop Target Business, application and Technology Architecture
• Identify Architecture Roadmap components based on gaps between baseline and target business architectures.

Approach

• Business, application and Technology Architecture contains product and service strategy based on Architecture vision. Business Architecture is required before work on any other architecture work in any other domain.
• Developing the Baseline Approach–Usually Target architecture is top-down but baseline architecture is usually done bottom up.
• Business, application and Technology Modeling — An extension of the business scenario technique in which variety of modeling tools are used to model business processes. Example: Activity Model, Use Case Models and Class Models.
• Architecture Repository — Get all available architecture assets from Architecture Repository.