TOGAF and EA Governance

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• In general to set up governance you need 
• 1. Discipline Commitment to follow procedures,
  techniques, and power structures.
• 2. Transparency Decision backing accessible for
  review.
• 3. Independence Mechanisms to minimize or
  completely avoid potential conflicts.
• 4. Accountability Groups who make decisions or
  take actions are responsible for them.
• 5. Responsibility Contracted group to act
  responsibly.

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• How does TOGAF Define Architecture Governance?
• The first thing you need to understand is that
  TOGAF is not about solution details or
  development. It does provides a set of guidelines
  to follow in order to get the final solution in
  place as per architectural vision, strategy and
  standards. That is the thing that the
  Architecture Governance about. It discusses
• 6. Control Implementing a framework of controls
  over the creation of every Enterprise
  Architecture components and activities, and
  monitoring them to guarantee the successful
  introduction, implementation, and development of
  architectures in the company.
• 7. Compliance Implementing a framework to
  ensure consistency with external as well as
  internal standards and regulations.

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• How would you uphold the governance?
• Senior IT leadership, especially IT Architecture,
  will typically use TOGAF, yet for it to be
  successful wide backing from rest of the
  organization is required.
• 8. Architecture Board The point is to get the
  executives from the top authority into the
  Preliminary Phase. To guarantee that the
  leadership is perceived correctly by the rest of
  the company an "Architecture Board" in
  constituted. TOGAF prescribes that the board
  should be 4 to 5 permanent members, with the
  upper limit at ten individuals. The imperative is
  to incorporate all the crucial people in the
  company.
• 9. Architecture Contract TOGAF likewise
  suggests that an "Architecture Contract" should
  be used for all the work that needs be done.
  Architecture Contracts are mutual understandings
  between development stakeholders and sponsors on
  the quality, deliverables, and capabilities.

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• What does the Architecture Board do?
• It acts as the affirming and controlling power
  for the following things
• - Consistency between sub-architectures
• - Identifying reusable components
• - Flexibility of EA to address business issues
  and use new technologies
• - Enforcement of Architecture Compliance
• - Improving the development level of architecture
  order inside the company
• - Ensuring that the order of architecture-based
  advancement is embraced
• - Providing the basis for all basic decisions
  related to the changes in the architecture
• - Supporting the escalation capacity for outbound
  decisions.

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• What are the specific outcomes of EA Governance
  and how does this map to Enterprise Architecture
  Software?
• Fundamentally there are two outcomes from EA
  Governance
• 10. Architecture decisions this can be a
  decision of a new standard or other reference
  item like a strategy or roadmap. Another type of
  architecture decision can be a decision to not
  align to standards and referenced. Essentially a
  decision to deviate.
• 11. Alignment assessments closely aligned to
  the deviations, a second outcome of EA governance
  is alignment assessments on existing projects.
  Are they following the architecture requirements
  and contracts? Are they aligned with standards
  and other reference items?

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TOGAF and EA Governance

• 12. Repository From an enterprise architecture
  tools perspective make sure your EA tool provides
  a central place to manage architecture decisions,
  standards and alignments assessments. If you are
  going to apply governance you MUST make it clear
  and easy on how project are expected to align and
  a single place to manage this information is
  crucial. With support for these features in your
  enterprise architecture software you will be much
  stronger positioned to execute EA Governance on
  your projects and across your organization. To
  read in detail go to this link -
  http//eacomposer.com/togaf/enterprise-architectur
  e-governance.aspx
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