The Open Group Library contains a range of standards, guides, whitepapers and other useful publications.

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Guides

Using the TOGAF® Framework to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures

Reference: G174.

Guidance on how the architect can use the TOGAF 9.1 standard to develop, manage, and govern Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or any architecture where SOA is part of the scope. This should facilitate the common understanding of the process for the development of SOAs and greatly improve alignment between the business and information technology communities.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Using the TOGAF® Framework to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures

The TOGAF® Technical Reference Model (TRM)

Reference: G175.

This guide describes the TOGAF Technical Reference Model (TRM), including the core taxonomy, graphical representation, and the detailed platform taxonomy.

TOGAF® Series Guide: The TOGAF® Technical Reference Model (TRM)

Business Scenarios

Reference: G176.

This guide describes the Business Scenarios method, which is a technique to validate, elaborate, and/or change the premise behind an architecture effort by understanding and documenting the key elements of a Business Scenario in successive iterations.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Scenarios

Value Streams

Reference: G178.

This guide addresses how to identify, define, model, and map a value stream to other key components of an enterprise’s Business Architecture.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Value Streams

The TOGAF Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM): An Architected Approach to Boundaryless Information Flow™

Reference: G179.

This guide addresses the TOGAF Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) in terms of its concepts, an overview, and its detailed taxonomy.

TOGAF® Series Guide: The TOGAF Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM): An Architected Approach to Boundaryless Information Flow™

The TOGAF® Leader’s Guide to Establishing and Evolving an EA Capability

Reference: G184.

This guide puts forward advice on establishing an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Capability that aligns to a set of requirements and expectations specific to each enterprise. It proposes an approach for the standing-up and enhancing of an enterprise’s EA Capability based upon the established best practice contained within TOGAF®, an Open Group standard.

TOGAF® Series Guide: The TOGAF® Leader’s Guide to Establishing and Evolving an EA Capability

A Practitioners’ Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF® ADM

Reference: G186.

This guide puts forward an approach to develop, maintain, and use an Enterprise Architecture that aligns to a set of requirements and expectations of the stakeholders and enables predictable value creation.

TOGAF® Series Guide: A Practitioners’ Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF® ADM

Architecture Project Management

Reference: G188.

This guide provides Architecture Project Teams with an overall view and detailed guidance on what processes, tools, and techniques of PRINCE2® or PMBOK® can be applied alongside the TOGAF ADM for project planning, monitoring, and control. Further, a detailed mapping of the processes and deliverables of the TOGAF framework against PRINCE2 and PMBOK is provided to visualize how those concepts come together.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Architecture Project Management

Business Capabilities

Reference: G189.

As the discipline and practice of Business Architecture has continued to grow and mature, the concept of the “business capability” has emerged to become a fundamental component in the development of a Business Architecture. This Guide looks to answer some important questions about what a business capability is and how it is being used to enhance business analysis and planning.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Capabilities

Business Models

Reference: G18A.

This guide provides a basis for Enterprise Architects to understand and utilize business models, which describe the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value. Business models provide a powerful construct to help focus and align an organization around its strategic vision and execution. In this Guide we cover different forms of business models and approaches to modeling, from the conceptual down to a practical example.

TOGAF® Series Guide: Business Models

A Practical Approach to Application Portfolio Consolidation using the TOGAF® Standard

Reference: G18B.

This guide is intended to help enterprises who are attempting to simplify, rationalize, and consolidate their application portfolios in support of delivering business value and enabling business agility. It shows how enterprises can use the TOGAF® standard to identify and deliver opportunities to simplify their application landscape, and to help in the transition from legacy to cloud.

A Practical Approach to Application Portfolio Consolidation using the TOGAF® Standard

Starting an Enterprise Architecture Capability in the Government Sector

Reference: G18C.

This guide is written for the non-defense public sector. Its focus is to help leaders build a team and create, deliver, and use architectures within the public sector, recognizing the differences between public and private enterprises.

Starting an Enterprise Architecture Capability in the Government Sector

Agile Architecture in the Digital Age

Reference: W186.

The effectiveness of agile processes is too often jeopardized because the architecture and organizational pre-requisites of agility are neglected. This White Paper proposes a new architecture framework, the Agile Architecture Framework (AAF), that meets the needs of the digital enterprise.

Agile Architecture in the Digital Age

The Seven Levers of Digital Transformation

Reference: W17D.

This White Paper presents the reader with key considerations, the seven levers that influence successful outcomes from the Digital Transformation journey. Once the impact of the seven levers is understood, a well-governed and innovative path can be defined to reach a positive outcome at each stage of change.

The Seven Levers of Digital Transformation

Capability-Based Planning: The Link Between Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

Reference: W16C.

This White Paper describes how a Capability-Based Planning (CBP) method is a solution for the alignment between business strategy and Enterprise Architecture. It includes a detailed example using ArchiMate 3.0 notation.

Capability-Based Planning: The Link Between Strategy and Enterprise Architecture