Deliverable: Communications Plan

Purpose

Enterprise architectures contain large volumes of complex and inter-dependent information. Effective communication of targeted information to the right stakeholders at the right time is a critical success factor for enterprise architecture. Development of a Communications Plan for architecture allows for this communication to be carried out within a planned and managed process.

Relationships

Tasks	Input To: Business Architecture Information Systems: Applications Information Systems: Data Migration Planning Opportunities and Solutions Technology Architecture	Output From: Architecture Vision

Main Description

Typical contents of a Communications Plan are:

Identification of stakeholders and grouping by communication requirements
Identification of communication needs, key messages in relation to the Architecture Vision, communication risks, and Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
Identification of mechanisms that will be used to communicate with stakeholders and allow access to architecture information, such as meetings, newsletters, repositories, etc.
Identification of a communications timetable, showing which communications will occur with which stakeholder groups at what time and in what location

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.