Mapping the Unfamiliar to the Familiar With TOGAF and RUP
ebizQ, July 3, 2008
Let's face it: enterprise architecture is a daunting task. It is daunting because it must ensure a complete and consistent alignment between an organization's strategic objectives, mission, and business goals with its IT investment. To do so it must take into account four overarching organizational perspectives: business, data, applications (functionality), and technology. A task so monumental can instill fear in the best of us. Granted, enterprise architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) can help, but unfamiliarity with such frameworks can just as easily add to the fear of an already complex task. In this article, I will show you how much of this fear can be alleviated by mapping TOGAF (the unfamiliar) to a very popular and well-known process framework, the Rational Unified Process or RUP (the familiar).