Deliverable: Architecture Principles

Purpose

Principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended, that inform and support the way in which an organization sets about fulfilling its mission.

In their turn, principles may be just one element in a structured set of ideas that collectively define and guide the organization, from values through to actions and results.

Relationships

Tasks

Input To:

Preliminary

Output From:

Main Description

See Part III, Architecture Principles for guidelines and a detailed set of generic architecture principles, including:

Business principles
Data principles
Application principles
Technology principles

Deliverable Properties

Deliverable Parts	Viewpoints in the Preliminary 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.