TOGAF® Series Guides
The TOGAF Standard comprises the TOGAF Fundamental Content and a collection of TOGAF Series Guides, which provide the practical guidance in the application of the TOGAF Standard.
Figure 2-3 the structure and scope of the TOGAF Standard.
Not all the TOGAF Series Guides will be relevant in every situation. However, Enterprise Architects who are planning the deployment of the TOGAF Standard should be aware of the guidance available.
Figure 2-3 depicts the structure of the TOGAF Standard. Besides the core framework content covered by the six volumes explained above, the standard provides guidance to address specific concerns and use-cases through the TOGAF Series Guides.
The TOGAF Series Guides are designed to support more specific needs from practitioners who need further explanation or more detail than that provided in the core content.
This content will evolve more rapidly than the core content to cover new needs as they emerge from market trends and the needs of the industry. There is a set of activities running continuously in The Open Group Architecture Forum to deliver this content following a continuous and incremental delivery pipeline.
Examples of the areas covered by this guidance material are:
- Strategy decision-making and business value-oriented decisions
- Business Architecture and operating model description
- Information and data management
- Information system guidance
- Information reference models and data integration models
- Technology Architecture: how Enterprise Architecture as a practice can be applied to adopt new technology trends to assess if the organization owns the right capabilities to support the new technology adoption
- Security Architecture: how the TOGAF Standard can be applied to deliver and support Security Architecture and risk management
- How Enterprise Architecture as a practice and the TOGAF Standard can be applied to support the agile enterprise, to be delivered following an agile style, and how the standard can support organizations using agile methodologies
- How Enterprise Architecture as a practice and the TOGAF Standard support the digital enterprise so that organizations can deliver digital products, and improve their digital offering and digital value proposition
- How the standard can be applied with other standards and methodologies of The Open Group such as the O-AATM Standard, the DPBoKTM Standard, the IT4ITTM Reference Architecture, the ArchiMate® Specification, Microservices Architecture (MSA), security standards, and also with other standards bodies' standards and best practices
The complete set of TOGAF Series Guides can be found at www.opengroup.org/library/guides/togaf/togaf-series-guides.
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