Deliverable: Architecture Roadmap

Purpose

The Architecture Roadmap lists individual increments of change and lays them out on a timeline to show progression from the Baseline Architecture to the Target Architecture. The Architecture Roadmap forms a key component of Transition Architectures and is incrementally developed throughout Phases B, C, D, E, and F within the ADM.

Relationships

Tasks	Input To: Architecture Change Management Implementation Governance Information Systems: Applications Information Systems: Data Migration Planning Opportunities and Solutions Technology Architecture	Output From: Business Architecture Information Systems: Applications Information Systems: Data Migration Planning Opportunities and Solutions Technology Architecture

Main Description

Typical contents of an Architecture Roadmap are:

Project list:
- Name, description, and objectives of each impacted project
- Prioritized list of impacted projects to implement the proposed architecture
Time-oriented Migration Plan:
- Benefits of migration, determined (including mapping to business requirements)
- Estimated costs of migration options
Implementation recommendations:
- Criteria measures of effectiveness of projects
- Risks and issues
- Solution Building Blocks (SBBs) - description and model

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

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