This tutorial by Chris Greenslade of Frietuna Consultants gave a general introduction to The Open Group, described what the Architecture Forum has achieved so far with the development of TOGAF, and showed how the Forum is responding to the new challenges with the development of
the TOGAF 8 "Enterprise Edition" supporting certification program.
The Open Group is uniquely positioned within the IT industry to bring together the buy side and the supply side to agree on the real requirements that the industry needs to address, and effective methods of addressing them. Within the architecture domain, The Open Group has been active for over a decade, developing and making freely available an architecture framework and methodology - TOGAF. Developed by The Open
Group Architecture Forum, TOGAF is today accepted and used around the world as a genuinely open framework and method for enterprise architecture.
For the first eight years of its existence, The Open Group Architecture Forum focused primarily on evolving TOGAF as a framework for developing technical architectures that fully meet the business needs of an organization. That goal reached maturity with TOGAF Version 7.
As of TOGAF Version 8, the Architecture Forum began to respond to new challenges, with the increasing realization within the industry of the importance of Enterprise Architecture in the development of information systems. IT users are now seeking a framework that helps to develop enterprise architectures to address all aspects of an organization's information services. They are also seeking skilled architectural practitioners and suitable tool sets that will support them.
This tutorial, which was open to all participants at the IT Architecture Practitioners Conference, addressed the questions:
- What are the origins of TOGAF?
- What principles have been adopted in developing TOGAF?
- What is the TOGAF Architecture Development Method?
- In what other ways do we support IT Architecture?
- What are the plans for the future?
