TOGAF and ArchiMate harmonisation                return to home page

 

The aims here are to help increase the consistency and coherence of TOGAF and to align it with the ArchiMate modelling language.

I will happily answer questions about or speak to the materials below if invited to do so.

 

Business capabilities as formalised social systems paper and slide show

“This is important work. It sits above EA. It sits above General System Theory and Socio-Cultural System Thinking as well.

It clarifies many things, including the need to modify both ArchiMate and TOGAF in order to more usefully combine the two.” Web site reader

 

TOGAF and ArchiMate harmonisation (numbers indicate the download volume in the last year).

·        Issues with the ArchiMate standard (new) explains issues with regard to principles that underpin business system description.

·        Capabilities and Functions in TOGAF (c2,000) explains four principles that underpin TOGAF.

·        Service-orientation in TOGAF and ArchiMate (c2,000) applies some discipline to the meanings of “logical”, “physical” and “service”.

·        TOGAF and ArchiMate - mapping tables (c2,000) aligns concepts in the two meta models.

·        TOGAF diagrams using ArchiMate maps all but one ArchiMate standard diagram type to a TOGAF artefact type.

 

Background research

The explanation and proposals above are backed up by many research papers including the small selection below.

·        TOGAF patterns and principles for architectural specification

·        TOGAF patterns and principles for ADM design processes

·        TOGAF business capabilities and functions

More research papers.

·        Sense and nonsense in system theory

 

 

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