QuestionQ74

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You are the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major agribusiness company. The company’s main harvest is lentils, a highly valued food crop grown worldwide. The lentil parasite, broomrape, has been an increasing concern for many years and is now becoming resistant to chemical controls. In addition, climate changes favor the parasite’s propagation and growth. As a result, the parasite cannot realistically be exterminated, and it has become pandemic, with lentil yields falling globally.

In response to this situation, the CEO has decided that the lentil fields will be used for another harvest. The company will also stop processing third-party lentils and will repurpose its processing plants. Thus, the target market will change, and the end products will be different and more varied.

The company has recently established an Enterprise Architecture practice based on the TOGAF standard as its method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity. A formal request for architecture change has been approved. At this stage, there is no fixed scope, shared vision, or objectives.

You have been asked to recommend the best architecture-development approach to implement the CEO’s changed direction for the company.

Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?

Explanation

A new architecture-development cycle should begin by issuing a Request for Architecture Work and developing an Architecture Vision. Phase A establishes stakeholder alignment, scope, business goals, drivers, constraints, and the value proposition before detailed Business, Information Systems, or Technology Architecture work and before transition planning. This also supports alignment of the enterprise architecture function with the organization’s planning, budgeting, operational, and change-management processes.

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