Thursday, May 31, 2012

TOGAF - useful for Enterprises?

The simple answer is "YES".  

Large & small enterprises create application capabilities by a simple route.  There is a budget for Business Units and that is used to sponsor projects and applications are created.  The end result is thousands of unmanageable, and rigid applications not only resulting in higher cost of maintenance, but also become hindrances for building new business capabilities.

TOGAF is nothing but an Architecture process including a defined responsibility for  Architecture Governance.  Architecture Governance is missing in most of the organizations.  Establishing it with high skilled resources is costly.  Keeping it alive with all the parties complying to Architecture Principles is even tougher.  But, missing this critical area would be comparable to "penny wise and pound foolish".  30% of savings in IT operations is something Enterprises can expect the least by establishing rigid Architecture Practice rather than letting Business Units build rigid silo applications.  The revenue growth due to App flexibility is something not easily quantifiable.  However Enterprises can target for 20% reduction in App Capability Creation cost and 30% improvement in Time-to-Market.

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