Defining the Strategic Business Plan

Describing the Baseline Business Architecture

Developing the Target Business Architecture

Selecting relevant viewpoints for key stakeholders

In the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model

In the Standards Information Base

In the Foundation Architecture

In the Architecture Repository

Identifying business transformation risks for an architecture project

Identifying errors in the project architecture

Identifying relationships between management frameworks

Identifying stakeholders and their concerns

Architecture viewpoint

Diagram

Catalog

Matrix

Architecture view

To define the capabilities of the organization

To communicate the technical readiness of the project

To evaluate the readiness of the organization to undergo change

To produce a new Request for Architecture Work

It highlights areas of stakeholder concern

It highlights the impacts of change

It highlights services that are yet to be developed

It highlights services that are available

It highlights different viewpoints

A categorization mechanism for architecture and solution artifacts

A framework for operational and change activity

A method for designing an information system in terms of a set of building blocks

The lifecycle management of information and related technology used by an organization

The practice by which enterprise architectures are controlled at an enterprise-wide level

Risk analysis is best conducted in the Architecture Vision phase so that the risk is eliminated in subsequent phases

Risk analysis should be carried out first in the Migration Planning phase

Risk analysis is outside the scope of enterprise architecture projects

Risk is pervasive in all enterprise architecture activity and should be managed in all phases of the ADM

The only risks that are within the scope of enterprise architecture are technological risks

Foundation Architecture

Common Systems Architecture

Industry Architecture

Organization Specific Architecture

Product Line Architecture

A document that triggers the start of an architecture development cycle

A qualitative view of the solution to communicate the intent of the architect

A quantitative view of the solution to measure the implementation

A record of deviations from the planned architectural approach