Phase A: Architecture Vision

Objectives Steps Inputs Outputs

Obtain management commitment for this particular cycle of the ADM

Validate business principles, goals, and drivers

Define, scope, and prioritize architecture tasks

Identify stakeholders, their concerns, and objectives

Define business requirements and constraints

Describe appropriate solutions

Obtain formal approval to proceed

Understand the influence on, and from, parallel architecture developments

Project Establishment

Identify Business Goals and Business Drivers

Review Architecture Principles, including Business Principles

Define the scope

Define Constraints

Identify Stakeholders and Concerns, Business requirements, and Architecture Vision

Document the Statement of Architecture Work and Gain Approval

Request for Architecture Work

Business strategy, business goals, and business drivers

Architecture principles, including business principles

The Enterprise Continuum; that is, existing architecture documentation (framework description, architecture descriptions, existing baseline descriptions, etc.)

Approved Statement of Architecture Work including:

  • Scope and constraint
  • Plan for the architecture work

Refined statements of business goals and strategic drivers

Architecture principles, including business principles

Architecture Vision (produced by the business scenario) including:

  • Baseline Business Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Baseline Technology Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Baseline Data Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Baseline Applications Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Target Business Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Target Technology Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Target Data Architecture, Version 0.1
  • Target Applications Architecture, Version 0.1


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