OGEA-10B: TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Bridge Exam

Stakeholders own the desired business value, including the preferences and priorities that the architecture must enable. EA practitioners serve the stakeholders’ objectives and must remain impartial, setting aside personal preferences, biases, and priorities.

The second governance function is to control change activity, ensuring that the change remains on the optimal path for realizing the expected value.

The Architecture Vision establishes the high-level intent and boundaries of an architecture initiative. Defining the scope of the problem being addressed is necessary to set those boundaries and align the vision with the intended change.

TOGAF trade-off analysis evaluates alternative Target Architectures using criteria based on the agreed Architecture Vision, Architecture Principles, and requirements. Architecture views communicate each alternative’s impacts, including effects on planned projects; their strengths and weaknesses are assessed before a formal stakeholder review selects the alternative to proceed with and its funding is determined.

Enterprise Architecture supports effective, efficient project delivery in the Team context, where a cohesive team has a single mission and requires enough structure to coordinate its work and deliver its product.