What is BIZBOK®? Since the foundation of the Business Architecture Guild and publishing version 1 of Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK®) in 2011, the best practices have become a popular set of guidelines and techniques for practicing …
What is Value Stream Mapping? Business architecture is a comprehensive approach to understanding and designing an organization’s structure, processes, and capabilities. It encompasses several key domains as defined by the Guide to the Business …
Understanding the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum Previously, I have written about the use of a modeling language and the practical usage of the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum to classify architectural descriptions along different levels of abstraction. In this …
Relating Business Strategy and Capabilities The relationship between business strategy and capabilities is a two-way street. On the one hand, the strategy of an enterprise is a way of configuring its capabilities and resources to achieve certain goals. …
The Role of Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture Organizations today are facing a rapidly increasing pace of change. They adopt agile methods that impact the entire enterprise to drive faster transformation. Naturally, change must be communicated, but …
What are reference architectures? Reference architectures are standardized architectures that provide a frame of reference for a particular domain, sector or field of interest. Reference models or architectures provide a common vocabulary, reusable …
The Capability-Based Planning Cycle Capability-Based Planning activities are structured in a cycle: Map, assess, plan, and control. It shows us where to begin and the next steps to gradually increase the impact on the organization. In the “Map” phase, we …
Enterprise Architecture Services Explained Agile enterprise architecture management practices may want to consider developing repeatable Enterprise Architecture Services . This would allow consumers of those services (e.g., internal customers of …
Why Business Architecture Matters in a Changing Environment Today, organizations need to move at speed and adapt their business to a volatile environment, while at the same time dealing with many inside and outside stakeholders and influences, ranging …
Serving Perhaps the most contentious one is the ‘serving’ relationship (or ‘used by’ as it was called before ArchiMate version 3.0 ). This points from the element that provides some functionality to the element that consumes it. For example, in the figure …
