Oh, TOGAF, you nearly 700-page behemoth of controversial architecture framework text. Why are you both so loved and loathed in the enterprise architecture world? I like The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), but I do not view it as the be-all-end-all tome of EA. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to those who either know me or read my last article, “The enterprise architecture paradox,” as TOGAF is indeed a collection of “loosely coupled concepts around a central theme”—enterprise architecture. It is a framework per Merriam-Webster’s definition, “a basic conceptual structure (as of ideas).” Architects and organizations expecting more than just a framework from TOGAF are setting themselves up for disappointment, if not failure.
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Source: IT Strategy