Why you need him: Business scenarios and business goals provide guidance for architecture development to define goals and objectives.
What needs to be done: EA team finds out what needs to be done in ADM stages B, C, D and E.
What needs to be changed: The architecture content framework helps you think about the scope of the plan, what artifacts you need to produce, and what deliverables you need.
Are we ready to change? Continuous evaluation of business transformation readiness describes a technique to evaluate and quantify organizational change readiness.
Is the EA team ready? Architectural competency framework helps to think about the maturity and skills of EA practice and team, and how you manage the plan.
How will we manage change: Architecture change management focuses on establishing the architecture change process.
New Plan: The preparation phase describes the preparation and initial activities needed to meet the business direction of the new enterprise architecture, including defining the organization-specific architecture framework and principle definitions.
The title of this chapter shows that he explains how to prepare for EA plan, with the purpose of determining the architectural capability required by the organization-business results. The ability to build architecture EA practice can achieve results, please follow the steps and guidelines here to help you prepare. But the important thing is that you need to adjust and supplement it to meet all your needs.
One of the difficulties of EA is that you usually don't know all the changes that need to be made at the beginning. In TOGAF, phases B, C and D provide a complete definition, including the target architecture required by the current constraints and the gap between the current state and the target state-providing a complete definition of the plan.
Then, Phase E focuses on the solution to complete the required changes. Obviously, at the beginning of a new EA project, a lot of information is not available. Here are two tips to help you:
The key step to success is to ensure that the EA team has the ability to complete the necessary architectural changes. Competency architecture provides the content about how to evaluate the maturity of EA practice and how to evaluate the personal skills of each team member, and also provides the framework and guidelines for architectural governance. Through this practice and guidance, we can manage and control the structural changes within the enterprise.