ADM steps

Question 1

What steps are performed in the Preliminary Phase?

Answer 1

1. Scope the enterprise organizations impacted
2. Confirm governance and support frameworks
3. Define and establish Enterprise Architecture team and organization
4. Identify and establish Architecture Principles
5. Tailor the TOGAF framework and, if any, other selected architecture frameworks
6. Develop a strategy

Question 2

What steps are performed in Phase A: Architecture Vision?

Answer 2

1. Establish the architecture project
2. Identify stakeholders, concerns, and business
   requirements
3. Confirm and elaborate business goals, business drivers, and constraints
4. Evaluate capabilities
5. Assess readiness for business transformation
6. Define scope
7. Confirm and elaborate Architecture Principles, including
   business principles
8. Develop Architecture Vision
9. Define the Target Architecture value propositions and KPIs
10. Identify the business transformation risks and mitigation activities
11. Develop Statement of Architecture Work; secure approval

Question 3

What steps are performed in Phase B: Business Architecture?

Answer 3

1. Select reference models, viewpoints, and tools
2. Develop Baseline Architecture Description
3. Develop Target Architecture Description
4. Perform gap analysis
5. Define candidate roadmap components
6. Resolve impacts across the Architecture Landscape
7. Conduct formal stakeholder review
8. Finalize the Architecture
9. Create Architecture Definition Document

Question 4

What steps are performed in Phase C: Information Systems Architectures?

Answer 4

1. Select reference models, viewpoints, and tools
2. Develop Baseline Architecture Description
3. Develop Target Architecture Description
4. Perform gap analysis
5. Define candidate roadmap components
6. Resolve impacts across the Architecture Landscape
7. Conduct formal stakeholder review
8. Finalize the Architecture
9. Create Architecture Definition Document

Question 5

What steps are performed in Phase D: Technology Architecture?

Answer 5

1. Select reference models, viewpoints, and tools
2. Develop Baseline Architecture Description
3. Develop Target Architecture Description
4. Perform gap analysis
5. Define candidate roadmap components
6. Resolve impacts across the Architecture Landscape
7. Conduct formal stakeholder review
8. Finalize the Architecture
9. Create Architecture Definition Document

Question 6

What steps are performed in Phase E: Opportunities and Solutions?

Answer 6

1. Determine/confirm key corporate change attributes
2. Determine business constraints for implementation
3. Review and consolidate gap analysis results from Phases B to D
4. Review consolidated requirements across related business functions
5. Consolidate and reconcile interoperability requirements
6. Refine and validate dependencies
7. Confirm readiness and risk for business transformation
8. Formulate Implementation and Migration Strategy
9. Identify and group major work packages
10. Identify Transition Architectures
11. Create Architecture Roadmap & Implementation and Migration Plan

Question 7

What steps are performed in Phase F: Migration Planning?

Answer 7

1. Confirm management framework interactions for
   Implementation and Migration Plan
2. Assign a business value to each work package
3. Estimate resource requirements, project timings, and availability/delivery vehicle
4. Prioritize the migration projects through the conduct of a cost/benefit assessment and risk validation
5. Confirm Architecture Roadmap and update Architecture Definition Document
6. Complete the Implementation and Migration Plan
7. Complete the development cycle and document lessons learned

Question 8

What steps are performed in Phase G: Implementation Governance?

Answer 8

1. Confirm scope and priorities for deployment with
   development management
2. Identify deployment resources and skills
3. Guide development of solutions deployment
4. Perform Enterprise Architecture Compliance reviews
5. Implement business and IT operations
6. Perform post-implementation review and close the
   implementation

Question 9

What steps are performed in Phase H: Architecture Change Management?

Answer 9

1. Establish value realization process
2. Deploy monitoring tools
3. Manage risks
4. Provide analysis for architecture change management
5. Develop change requirements to meet performance targets
6. Manage governance process
7. Activate the process to implement change

Question 10

What steps are performed in Requirements Management?

Answer 10

1. Identify/document requirements
2. Baseline requirements
3. Monitor baseline requirements
4. Identify changed requirement; remove, add, modify, and re-assess priorities
5. Identify changed requirement and record priorities; identify and resolve conflicts; generate requirements impact statements
6. Assess impact of changed requirement on current and previous ADM phases
7. Implement requirements arising from Phase H
8. Update the Architecture Requirements Repository
9. Implement change in the current phase
10. Assess and revise gap analysis for past phases