I would agree with Kevin, to a certain extent about TOGAF being dragged down by the weight of its past (and possibly current) IT baggage. Just look at TOGAF 9 Part III Architecture Principles, towards the suggested Business Principles. All the "Business" Principles seem to be about "information management decisions". I would have thought the "information management decisions" would be within the scope of Application Principles or Technology Principles. Architecture Principles are a corner-stone for the whole of the Enterprise decision-making agenda. Not all decision-making is about "information management" alone.
TOGAF9 has made a lot of progress towards focussing on the Enterprise layer, but there is still a lot of ground to be covered, and some to be discarded. You can't be top-heavy and bottom-heavy at the same time. And TOGAF needs to make up its mind where it wants to be - focus on the details at the bottom layers or focus on the decision-making at the upper layers of the enterprise.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying that IT should be completely ignored, as some others seem to be saying. Almost the whole of the enterprise and its operations are IT dependant now. And you simply cannot be making enterprise decisions without understanding the impact on your operations or strategy. IT ignorant decision makers are a key business risk! But, I am very much saying that IT (and anybody else sitting on sidelines) should not be running the enterprise.
Best regards,
Joseph
On Apr 12, 7:14 am, "Kevin (PragmaticEA.com) Smith"
> TOGAF is not an Enterprise Architecture Frameowrk.
> TOGAF is an IT Architecture Framework.
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