Portal:Process:EA Frameworks
From An Agile IT
EA Frameworks
EA Frameworks are a toolset that help experienced enterprise architects. What they don't provide is an automated process for building an Enterprise Architecture or replace the need for experienced enterprise architects.
An enterprise architecture team using a framework should be able to:
- design consistent solution architectures
- reduce design and implementation timescales
- make use and record best practices and standards
- stop re-inventing of the wheel
- provide hooks for management and governance of architecture
- provide a process to transalate business requirments into IT architecture
- create an enterprise model
Common Frameworks
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Recommended Reading
This book explains the role of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and shows the differences between the most popular Enterprise Architecture Frameworks now a day available in the world. With the growing importance of Enterprise Architecture [EA]; at the same time, the discussion started how to create or choose the right Enterprise Architecture Framework & Tools for your organisation in the jungle of the existing ones. Giving an overview of the history of most Enterprise Architecture frameworks as well as their purpose, scope, principles, structure, guidance and compliance, will support you in identifying the usefulness of these Enterprise Architecture frameworks for your own situation. For the in-depth details of the described Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, references to the original sources of information are added in the chapter References & Bibliography. Separate chapters are addressing the most popular Enterprise Architecture tools on the market and their support of existing frameworks.
