Deliverable: Compliance Assessment

Purpose

Once an architecture has been defined, it is necessary to govern that architecture through implementation to ensure that the original Architecture Vision is appropriately realized and that any implementation learnings are fed back into the architecture process. Period compliance reviews of implementation projects provide a mechanism to review project progress and ensure that the design and implementation is proceeding in-line with the strategic and architectural objectives.

Relationships

Tasks	Input To: Architecture Change Management	Output From: Architecture Change Management Implementation Governance

Main Description

Typical contents of a Compliance Assessment are:

Overview of project progress and status
Overview of project architecture/design
Completed architecture checklists:
- Hardware and operating system checklist
- Software services and middleware checklist
- Applications checklists
- Information management checklists
- Security checklists
- System management checklists
- System engineering checklists
- Methods and tools checklists

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.