This chapter provides an introduction to the guidance provided in the TOGAF Standard — ADM Techniques (this document).

Guidelines included within this document are as follows:

• Architecture Principles (see 2. Architecture Principles) describes principles for the use and deployment of IT resources across the enterprise, and how to develop the set of general rules and guidelines for the architecture being developed
• Stakeholder Management (see 3. Stakeholder Management) describes stakeholder management, an important discipline that successful architecture practitioners can use to win support for their projects
• Architecture Patterns (see 4. Architecture Patterns) provides guidance on using architectural patterns
• Gap Analysis (see 5. Gap Analysis) describes the technique known as gap analysis; it is widely used in the TOGAF ADM to validate an architecture that is being developed
• Migration Planning Techniques (see 6. Migration Planning Techniques) describes a number of techniques to support migration planning in Phases E and F
• Interoperability Requirements (see 7. Interoperability Requirements) describes a technique for determining interoperability requirements
• Business Transformation Readiness Assessment (see 8. Business Transformation Readiness Assessment) describes a technique for identifying business transformation issues
• Risk Management (see 9. Risk Management) describes a technique for managing risk during an architecture/business transformation project
• Architecture Alternatives and Trade-Offs (see 10. Architecture Alternatives and Trade-Offs) describes a technique to identify alternative Target Architectures and perform trade-offs between the alternatives

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