Chapter 31. TOGAF ADM Guide-Through

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Business Principles, Goals, and Drivers

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Business Principles, Goals and Drivers is one of the TOGAF deliverables you can create with the TOGAF software. It describes business principles, business goals, and business drivers.

Business principles, business goals, and business drivers provide context for architecture work, by describing the needs and ways of working employed by the enterprise. Many factors that lie outside the consideration of architecture discipline may nevertheless have significant implications for the way that architecture is developed.

Step 1: Confirm and Elaborate Business Goals and Drivers

Confirm and elaborate business goals and drivers

Review the business goals defined. Ensure that the existing definitions are current, and clarify any areas of ambiguity.

TOGAF business goals

Review and confirm business drivers

Review the Business Drivers defined. Ensure that the existing definitions are current, and clarify any areas of ambiguity.

The impacts of environmental trends on an organization are described as the business drivers. Another way to view business drivers is that they represent the business’ understanding of the way the business must itself change in response to changes and trends in the environment.

TOGAF business drivers