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).
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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.
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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.
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Sense
and nonsense in system theory
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