Architecture: TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT
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Product Standard
Architecture: TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT
Document Number: X02TB


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TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT - Product Standard

Product Standard

NAME

TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT

LABEL FOR LOGO

TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT

When this logo is used on, or in relation to, a product registered as conformant to this Product Standard, it must be accompanied by an attribution, in the form defined in the TOGAF 7 Certification Terms and Conditions, which includes the TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT Product Standard name.

DESCRIPTION

The TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT Product Standard defines core requirements for Tools that support the development of IT Architectures using The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Version 7.1 Detailed conformance requirements are listed below.

MANDATORY CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

A product conforming to this Product Standard (hereafter simply referred to as the "Product") may be a single tool, or a defined configuration of tools from a single product family.

A conforming Product shall:

ADM Process Conformance

  1. The tool must support the modeling of the sequence and content of the Phases, Steps, and Activities comprising the TOGAF Architecture Development Method,2 in one of the following ways:

  2. The tool must support the export of graphical and textual artefacts for use in ADM documents that require them. The Conformance Statement must declare how this is achieved.

ADM Deliverables Conformance

  1. The tool must support the development of the following deliverables of the ADM:3

    To achieve this, the tool must be capable of storing the definitive source of both the graphical and textual artefacts of those products, and enabling their maintenance and use through the ADM by architecture practitioners.

  2. The tool must support the ability to define and instance relationships between artefacts, and between artefacts and entries in the Standards Information Base.4

Foundation Architecture Conformance
Enterprise Continuum Conformance

  1. The tool must provide support for modeling the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum6 (including the distinction between Architecture Building Blocks and Solutions Building Blocks, and the four architecture types), and including support for updating this model to generate an organization-specific Enterprise Continuum.

  2. The tool must provide support for defining and maintaining the relationships between the different artefacts in the Enterprise Continuum, and for navigating in both directions (from generic to specific and vice versa) between the architecture types within the Continuum.

OPTIONAL CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

A conforming Product may support any or all of the following optional features. The Conformance Statement must state which of these optional features the Product supports.

ADM Process Conformance

A conforming Product may support any or all of the following optional features:

  1. Provide a mechanism for navigating between the ADM phases and deliverables

  2. Enable the business and technical architectures to be validated against requirements

  3. Support the development and use of Business Scenarios7 by architecture practitioners

ADM Deliverables Conformance

  1. The tool may support the development of the following deliverables of the ADM:

Enterprise Continuum Conformance

  1. The tool may support the import and/or export of architecture artefacts to/from the Enterprise Continuum.

  2. The tool may be capable of supporting relationships between components in the Architecture and Solutions Continuums.

Other Architecture Modeling Support
Additional TOGAF Support Functionality

The tool may declare support for any of the following additional functionality, and/or declare support for other additional functionality not listed, relevant to TOGAF support:

OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

PORTABILITY ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

OVERRIDING STANDARDS

There are no overriding standards for this Product Standard.

INDICATORS OF COMPLIANCE

There are no Indicators of Compliance for this Product Standard.

MIGRATION

As this is the first version of this Product Standard, there are no migration issues.


Footnotes

1.
TOGAF Documentation, December 2000, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Version 7 (I911), published by The Open Group.

2.
TOGAF Documentation, December 2002, TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), published by The Open Group, Section 1: TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - Process.

3.
TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 2: TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - Information Sets.

4.
TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 3: TOGAF Foundation Architecture.

5.
TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 3: TOGAF Foundation Architecture.

6.
TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 4: The Enterprise Continuum.

7.
TOGAF Documentation, December 2000, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Version 7 (I911), published by The Open Group, Section IV: Resource Base, Business Scenarios.

8.
TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 5: The Relationship of TOGAF to Other Architectures and Architecture Frameworks.


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