Proteus is an experienced Enterprise Architect with the PA Consulting Group based in New York. He is currently helping the State of New York implement an Architecture Development Methodology based on TOGAF within the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. He has over 9 years experience as an IT Consultant in a variety of roles including EA, solutions architecture, technical due diligence, software development, system development life-cycles and project management. Primarily focusing on assignments in the public sector (health, criminal justice and social services) he also has a long track record of working with blue chip private utility companies in both the UK and US.

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What can TOGAF learn from the successes of the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) framework?
The Open Group's Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is becoming a de-facto standard and a logical choice for implementing enterprise architecture. It is a low cost, generic set of guiding principles, resources and methodologies that is vendor and technology agnostic that can be applied within a variety of industries and domains.

The Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) is a national US framework to support improved systems development and health care management for the Medicaid enterprise. Through our experience of working with TOGAF and studying the MITA framework we have concluded that there are some areas of the TOGAF framework that can be strengthened with specific elements of MITA. Whilst MITA is largely a domain specific architecture framework, an EA implementation based on TOGAF, but borrowing from MITA, is a powerful combination with many potential benefits for TOGAF practioners.

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