Why IT Guys Need to Learn TOGAF

http://john-savageau.com/2013/08/12/why-it-guys-need-to-learn-togaf/

TOGAF, which is “The Open Group Architecture Framework,” brings structure to development of ICT as a tool for meeting business requirements.   TOGAF is a tool which will force each stakeholder, including senior management and business unit management, to work with ICT professionals to apply technology in a structured framework that follows the basic:

• Develop a business vision
• Determine your “AS-IS” environment
• Determine your target environment
• Perform a gap analysis
• Develop solutions to meet the business requirements and vision, and fill the “gaps” between “AS-IS” and “Target”
• Implement
• Measure
• Improve
• Re-iterate

Of course TOGAF is a complex architecture framework, with a lot more stuff involved than the above bullets.  However, the point is ICT must now participate in the business planning process – and really become part of the business, rather than a vendor to the business