LEARN. PRACTICE. GROW.Concept and mechanism
The ADM organizes architecture development into work that can be revisited and adjusted. Preparing architecture capability clarifies who participates, who decides, which principles guide work, and how information is maintained. This preparation differs from designing one project’s solution. In Phase A, Architecture Vision, clarify the work’s scope and direction: the intended outcome, relevant stakeholder concerns, and the commitment enabling progress. A useful vision does not need every production script, but it should explain why continuing is worthwhile and what analysis includes.
Guided application
Phase B addresses Business Architecture. In a funds-exception workflow, consider capabilities, process, and approval responsibilities before turning the problem into an infrastructure choice. Phase C addresses information-systems architectures, including data and applications. If two systems identify the same fund incompatibly, the connection among meaning, interface, and application becomes central. A project manager can facilitate discussion with specialists without assuming sole authority over business semantics. Retain requirement traceability and record unconfirmed assumptions. Learning in one area may require revisiting another: discovering a data constraint can change scope vision or a process option.
A data contract needs to explain the fund identifier; connecting systems to the same network does not resolve the difference.
Common pitfalls
Preparation as tool purchasing; vision as complete design; data separated from the applications using it.
Related topics: From design to implementation and change · Techniques for clarifying decisions
Business direction and meaning guide technical development.
Reference: How ArchiMate and TOGAF complement each other · OGEA-101, TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation; body of knowledge drawn from TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition