TOGAF ADM: Phase B: Business Architecture

Phase B: Business Architecture

This phase describes the development of a Business Architecture to support an agreed Architecture Vision.

Objectives

Please refer TOGAF ADM Phase B: Business Architecture

Inputs

1. Reference Materials External to the Enterprise
1. Architecture Repository (Source: Phase A)
2. Non-Architectural Inputs
1. Request for Architecture Work (Source: Phase A)
2. Business principles, business goals, and business drivers (Source: Phase A)
3. Capability Assessment (Source: Phase A)
4. Communication Plan (Source: Phase A)
3. Architectural Inputs
1. Organizational Model (Source: Preliminary Phase)
2. Tailored Architecture Framework (Source: Phase A)
3. Approved Statement of Architecture Work (Source: Phase A)
4. Architecture Principles (Source: Phase A)
5. Enterprise Continuum
6. Architecture Repository (Source: Phase A)
7. Architecture Vision (Source: Phase A)
8. Draft Architecture Definition Document (Source: Phase A)

Steps

Outputs

1. Refined and updated Architecture Vision
1. Statement of Architecture Work
2. Validated business principles, business goals, and business drivers
3. Architecture Principles
2. Draft Architecture Definition Document
3. Draft Architecture Requirements Specification
4. Business Architecture components of an Architecture Roadmap

Artifacts

1. Catalogs:
1. Value Stream catalog
2. Business Capabilities catalog
3. Value Stream Stages catalog
4. Organization/Actor catalog
5. Driver/Goal/Objective catalog
6. Role catalog
7. Business Service/Function catalog
8. Location catalog
9. Process/Event/Control/Product catalog
10. Contract/Measure catalog
2. Matrices:
1. Value Stream/Capability matrix
2. Strategy/Capability matrix
3. Capability/Organization matrix
4. Business Interaction matrix
5. Actor/Role matrix
3. Diagrams:
1. Business Model diagram
2. Business Capability Map
3. Value Stream Map
4. Organization Map
5. Business Footprint diagram
6. Business Service/Information diagram
7. Functional Decomposition diagram
8. Product Lifecycle diagram
9. Goal/Objective/Service diagram
10. Business Use-Case diagram
12. Organization Decomposition diagram
13. Process Flow diagram
14. Event diagram

Approach

Modeling Techniques

1. Activity Models (a.k.a. Business Process Models)
2. Use-Case Models
3. Class Models
4. Others
1. Node Connectivity Diagram
2. Information Exchange Matrix