Deliverable: Request for Architecture Work

Purpose

This is a document that is sent from the sponsoring organization to the architecture organization to trigger the start of an architecture development cycle. Requests for Architecture Work can be created as an output of the Preliminary phase, a result of approved architecture Change Requests, or terms of reference for architecture work originating from migration planning.

In general, all the information in this document should be at a high level.

Relationships

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

Main Description

Requests for Architecture Work typically include:

Organization sponsors
Organization's mission statement
Business goals (and changes)
Strategic plans of the business
Time limits
Changes in the business environment
Organizational constraints
Budget information, financial constraints
External constraints, business constraints
Current business system description
Current architecture/IT system description
Description of developing organization
Description of resources available to developing organization

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.