Togaf software architecture document

The Architecture Definition Document is the deliverable container for the core architectural artifacts created during a project. The Architecture Definition Document spans all architecture domains (business, data, application, and technology) and also examines all relevant states of the architecture (baseline, interim state(s), and target).

The Architecture Definition Document is a companion to the Architecture Requirements Specification, with a complementary objective:

• The Architecture Definition Document provides a qualitative view of the solution and aims to communicate the intent of the architects.
• The Architecture Requirements Specification provides a quantitative view of the solution, stating measurable criteria that must be met during the implementation of the architecture.

• Architecture Change Management
• Implementation Governance
• Information Systems: Applications
• Information Systems: Data
• Migration Planning
• Opportunities and Solutions
• Technology Architecture

• Business Architecture
• Information Systems: Applications
• Information Systems: Data
• Migration Planning
• Opportunities and Solutions
• Technology Architecture

Typical contents of an Architecture Definition Document are:

• Scope
• Goals, objectives, and constraints
• Architecture principles
• Baseline Architecture
• Architecture models (for each state to be modeled):
  • Business Architecture models
  • Data Architecture models
  • Application Architecture models
  • Technology Architecture models
  • Mapping to Architecture Landscape
  • Mapping to reference models
  • Mapping to standards
  • Re-use assessment
  Deliverable Properties
  • Viewpoints in the Business Architecture Phase
  • Viewpoints in the Information Systems: Applications Phase
  • Viewpoints in the Information Systems: Data Phase
  • Viewpoints in the Technology Architecture Phase

  The Open Group gratefully acknowledge Capgemini for the creation of the Eclipse Process Framework Method Plugin for TOGAF9.

  Downloads of the TOGAF documentation, are available under license from the TOGAF information web site. The license is free to any organization wishing to use TOGAF entirely for internal purposes (for example, to develop an information system architecture for use within that organization). A book is also available (in hardcopy and pdf) from The Open Group Bookstore as document G091.

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