TOGAF
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
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Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the
requirements and elements of TOGAF, based on best practices and standards in
business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely
existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the
Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of TOGAF have been rephrased in the
format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring
system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of TOGAF, a manager
can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the
standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to
identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be
implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your
TOGAF initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in
standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to
enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the
answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most SelfAssessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper
later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would
mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is
not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting
your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section,
compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and
round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the
TOGAF Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed TOGAF Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which
TOGAF areas need attention.
TOGAF
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
TOGAF
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Included Resources - how to access7
Purpose of this Self-Assessment9
How to use the Self-Assessment10
TOGAF
Scorecard Example12
TOGAF
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:22
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:35
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:44
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:61
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:74
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:86
TOGAF and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:133
1.0 Initiating Process Group: TOGAF134
1.1 Project Charter: TOGAF136
1.2 Stakeholder Register: TOGAF138
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: TOGAF139
2.0 Planning Process Group: TOGAF141
2.1 Project Management Plan: TOGAF143
2.2 Scope Management Plan: TOGAF145
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: TOGAF147
2.4 Requirements Documentation: TOGAF149
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: TOGAF151
2.6 Project Scope Statement: TOGAF153
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: TOGAF155
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: TOGAF157
2.9 WBS Dictionary: TOGAF159
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: TOGAF161
2.11 Activity List: TOGAF163
2.12 Activity Attributes: TOGAF165
2.13 Milestone List: TOGAF167
2.14 Network Diagram: TOGAF169
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: TOGAF171
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: TOGAF173
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: TOGAF175
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: TOGAF177
2.19 Project Schedule: TOGAF179
2.20 Cost Management Plan: TOGAF181
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: TOGAF183
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: TOGAF185
2.23 Cost Baseline: TOGAF187
2.24 Quality Management Plan: TOGAF189
2.25 Quality Metrics: TOGAF191
2.26 Process Improvement Plan: TOGAF193
2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: TOGAF195
2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: TOGAF197
2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: TOGAF199
2.30 Communications Management Plan: TOGAF201
2.31 Risk Management Plan: TOGAF203
2.32 Risk Register: TOGAF205
2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment: TOGAF207
2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix: TOGAF209
2.35 Risk Data Sheet: TOGAF211
2.36 Procurement Management Plan: TOGAF213
2.37 Source Selection Criteria: TOGAF215
2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan: TOGAF217
2.39 Change Management Plan: TOGAF219
3.0 Executing Process Group: TOGAF221
3.1 Team Member Status Report: TOGAF223
3.2 Change Request: TOGAF225
3.3 Change Log: TOGAF227
3.4 Decision Log: TOGAF229
3.5 Quality Audit: TOGAF231
3.6 Team Directory: TOGAF234
3.7 Team Operating Agreement: TOGAF236
3.8 Team Performance Assessment: TOGAF238
3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment: TOGAF241
3.10 Issue Log: TOGAF243
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: TOGAF245
4.1 Project Performance Report: TOGAF247
4.2 Variance Analysis: TOGAF249
4.3 Earned Value Status: TOGAF251
4.4 Risk Audit: TOGAF253
4.5 Contractor Status Report: TOGAF255
4.6 Formal Acceptance: TOGAF257
5.0 Closing Process Group: TOGAF259
5.1 Procurement Audit: TOGAF261
5.2 Contract Close-Out: TOGAF263
5.3 Project or Phase Close-Out: TOGAF265
5.4 Lessons Learned: TOGAF267
Index269
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE
INTENT: Be aware of the need for change. Recognize that there is an
unfavorable variation, problem or symptom.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Is the quality of IT systems appropriate for business needs?
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2. What technology is needed to support the applications?
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3. Is there a need to update the architecture?
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4. Which it systems need to change to support changes?
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5. How much detail is needed for the Application Baseline Architecture?
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6. What is a framework exactly and why is it needed in an EA?
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7. Who else hopes to benefit from it?
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8. Are there any specific expectations or concerns about the TOGAF team,
TOGAF itself?
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9. How much are sponsors, customers, partners, stakeholders involved in
TOGAF? In other words, what are the risks, if TOGAF does not deliver
successfully?
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10. Why do you need an Enterprise Architecture?
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11. Why do you need an architectural approach to interoperability?
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12. What are the major business issues you face?
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13. What is the measurement of problem management?
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14. What is the difference between problem management and incident
management?
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15. What problems occur at a managerial level during the response on a
disaster and crisis?
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16. What does the enterprise want and what does it need?
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17. What would happen if TOGAF weren’t done?
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18. Why do you need an IT architecture?
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19. How would you identify an outdated or misplaced business strategy?
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20. Is the problem manifested in terms of poor quality or a perception of an
ineffective organization?
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21. How are the TOGAF’s objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder
strategy?
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22. Is there enough information to identify who/what could fulfil the
requirement?
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23. What applications are needed to provide information?
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24. Does the adoption of Cloud Computing in your organization increases or
eliminates the need for EA?
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25. When does your organization issue RFP and why?
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26. What role or function do you need to provide the service?
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27. What information is needed to support the business?
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28. What situation(s) led to this TOGAF Self Assessment?
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29. When selecting application architecture building blocks, which methods
are used to match application functions with business needs?
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30. As a sponsor, customer or management, how important is it to meet goals,
objectives?
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31. What does TOGAF success mean to the stakeholders?
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32. Why does TOGAF need an update on security architecture aspects?
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33. Who needs to test the service before it goes into production?
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34. What is animation and who needs to know?
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35. How are you going to measure success?
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36. What computing resources are needed to provide system service to users
inside the enterprise?
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37. What are the expected benefits of TOGAF to the stakeholder?
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38. What need does an actor have and how does the system find out?
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39. Why do you need TOGAF as a framework for enterprise architecture?
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40. What elements are needed to specify a modelling language?
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41. What problems are you facing and how do you consider TOGAF will
circumvent those obstacles?
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42. How will users be prevented from viewing someone elses sensitive
information?
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43. What were the triggers that motivated you to perform design
validation?
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44. How do you identify true stakeholders on a new project?
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45. What is the problem with client/server models?
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46. What are the stakeholder objectives to be achieved with TOGAF?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:
INTENT: Formulate the stakeholder problem. Define the problem, needs and
objectives.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Who are the TOGAF improvement team members, including Management
Leads and Coaches?
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2. Are there any special requirements of your team for the system?
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3. What are the boundaries of the scope? What is in bounds and what is not?
What is the start point? What is the stop point?
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4. Is there a completed, verified, and validated high-level ‘as is’ (not ‘should be’
or ‘could be’) stakeholder process map?
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5. What would be the goal or target for a TOGAF’s improvement team?
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6. Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform TOGAF
work? How is the team addressing them?
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7. Has anyone else (internal or external to the group) attempted to solve this
problem or a similar one before? If so, what knowledge can be leveraged from
these previous efforts?
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8. What is the largest scope of concern that you were able to influence
through architecture?
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9. How does sarbanes-oxley regulation (or HIPAA or any other act)
translate into it requirements?
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10. What contextual elements should be considered in the whole systems
design?
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11. When is/was the TOGAF start date?
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12. Is the TOGAF scope manageable?
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13. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its
leadership? Where is this documented?
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14. Has the TOGAF work been fairly and/or equitably divided and delegated
among team members who are qualified and capable to perform the work? Has
everyone contributed?
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15. Can architectural success be defined as user compliance?
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16. What is an example of an architectural requirement?
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17. Has the direction changed at all during the course of TOGAF? If so, when
did it change and why?
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18. What are the dynamics of the communication plan?
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19. What other applications and/or systems require integration with yours?
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20. How often are the team meetings?
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21. Does your organization have a validated and well-defined business
strategy?
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22. Is the improvement team aware of the different versions of a process: what
they think it is vs. what it actually is vs. what it should be vs. what it could be?
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23. What are the up-time requirements of the system?
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24. Is the current ‘as is’ process being followed? If not, what are the
discrepancies?
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25. What requirements are there for use of programmatic languages?
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26. Are stakeholder processes mapped?
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27. What is the scope of the Information Systems Architecture?
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28. Are the concepts rightfully defined?
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29. Is TOGAF linked to key stakeholder goals and objectives?
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30. When are meeting minutes sent out? Who is on the distribution list?
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31. Is the team formed and are team leaders (Coaches and Management Leads)
assigned?
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32. Is a fully trained team formed, supported, and committed to work on the
TOGAF improvements?
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33. Is data collected and displayed to better understand customer(s) critical needs
and requirements.
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34. Which is defined by TOGAF as a representation of a system from the
perspective of a related set of concerns?
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35. What constraints exist that might impact the team?
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36. What are the rough order estimates on cost savings/opportunities that
TOGAF brings?
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37. Has/have the customer(s) been identified?
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38. Is the team equipped with available and reliable resources?
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39. Has a team charter been developed and communicated?
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40. How and when is the equivalency between the requirements and
architecture assured?
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41. Are different versions of process maps needed to account for the different
types of inputs?
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42. What requirements are there on the patterns that are utilized?
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43. Do you believe your requirements can be met by only one supplier?
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44. How did the TOGAF manager receive input to the development of a TOGAF
improvement plan and the estimated completion dates/times of each activity?
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45. When is the estimated completion date?
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46. Has a project plan, Gantt chart, or similar been developed/completed?
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47. Is the team adequately staffed with the desired cross-functionality? If not,
what additional resources are available to the team?
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48. How will the TOGAF team and the group measure complete success of
TOGAF?
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49. How do you address architectural concerns beyond the nominal scope of
the methodology?
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50. What are the compliance requirements between architectures?
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51. Will team members perform TOGAF work when assigned and in a timely
fashion?
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52. Do the problem and goal statements meet the SMART criteria (specific,
measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)?
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53. Are customer(s) identified and segmented according to their different needs
and requirements?
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54. What customer feedback methods were used to solicit their input?
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55. Does the team have regular meetings?
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56. Is full participation by members in regularly held team meetings guaranteed?
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57. What key stakeholder process output measure(s) does TOGAF leverage and
how?
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58. Is there a critical path to deliver TOGAF results?
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59. How are the business requirements for the architecture recognized?
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60. Has everyone on the team, including the team leaders, been properly trained?
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61. Has a high-level ‘as is’ process map been completed, verified and validated?
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62. Are customers identified and high impact areas defined?
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63. What are architecture requirements really?
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64. What critical content must be communicated – who, what, when, where, and
how?
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65. Has the improvement team collected the ‘voice of the customer’ (obtained
feedback – qualitative and quantitative)?
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66. Are improvement team members fully trained on TOGAF?
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67. How will variation in the actual durations of each activity be dealt with to
ensure that the expected TOGAF results are met?
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68. Are there presently business capabilities defined in your organization?
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69. How fhir resources can be traced back to business requirements?
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70. Which is an example of multi-factor authentication?
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71. Are team charters developed?
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72. Will team members regularly document their TOGAF work?
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73. How was the ‘as is’ process map developed, reviewed, verified and
validated?
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74. Is there a completed SIPOC representation, describing the Suppliers, Inputs,
Process, Outputs, and Customers?
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75. Which best defines an enterprise from a TOGAF perspective?
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76. How does the TOGAF manager ensure against scope creep?
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77. How, though, might team members define integrity?
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78. Is there regularly 100% attendance at the team meetings? If not, have
appointed substitutes attended to preserve cross-functionality and full
representation?
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79. What is the current scope and authority for Enterprise Architecture?
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80. Which elements are still required to implement a good IT governance
framework?
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81. How do you define software architecture?
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82. What specific service administration tools are required?
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83. Are there different segments of customers?
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84. How do you keep key subject matter experts in the loop?
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85. If substitutes have been appointed, have they been briefed on the TOGAF
goals and received regular communications as to the progress to date?
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86. How do you depict functional requirements of the architecture?
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87. How is the team tracking and documenting its work?
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88. What is the current scope of enterprise-architecture?
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89. What general system administration tools are required?
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90. Is there a TOGAF management charter, including stakeholder case, problem
and goal statements, scope, milestones, roles and responsibilities,
communication plan?
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91. How would you define integrity for your organization or team?
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92. What specifically is the problem? Where does it occur? When does it occur?
What is its extent?
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93. Is architecture in the context of TOGAF?
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94. Is the team sponsored by a champion or stakeholder leader?
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95. What are the compelling stakeholder reasons for embarking on TOGAF?
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96. Have the customer needs been translated into specific, measurable
requirements? How?
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97. Is TOGAF currently on schedule according to the plan?
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98. Who defines business-purpose for your architecture?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:
INTENT: Gather the correct data. Measure the current performance and
evolution of the situation.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. What are the potential real-world impacts of your information process?
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2. What are the most important costs inherent in your business model?
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3. Is key measure data collection planned and executed, process variation
displayed and communicated and performance baselined?
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4. What is your process for evaluating full lifecycle costs of hardware and
operating systems?
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5. How do you focus on design simplicity that still meets customers needs?
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6. What are the agreed upon definitions of the high impact areas, defect(s),
unit(s), and opportunities that will figure into the process capability metrics?
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7. Are key measures identified and agreed upon?
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8. What is the cost of retraining the users?
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9. How does the system design impact or involve end user devices?
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10. Will there be any impacts of introducing the tool into your environment?
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11. Have recent changes been made that impact the Technology
Architecture?
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12. Is data collection planned and executed?
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13. Is data collected on key measures that were identified?
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14. Are it services being delivered in line with business priorities?
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15. Is there a Performance Baseline?
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16. Have recent changes been made that impact the Technology
Architecture of Cloud Ecosystem?
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17. Who performs business analysis activities on agile teams?
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18. How do you assess the impact of new hardware on the system, especially
network load?
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19. Which views could be used to analyze the characteristics of a Service
Level Agreement for an application environment?
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20. Are high impact defects defined and identified in the stakeholder process?
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21. What particular quality tools did the team find helpful in establishing
measurements?
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22. Is a solid data collection plan established that includes measurement systems
analysis?
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23. How do you perform design analysis and validation on highly agile
project?
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24. How can existing modeling techniques be used to model and analyze
problems and solutions?
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25. How you will measure the business benefit of having done Enterprise
Architecture?
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26. What data was collected (past, present, future/ongoing)?
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27. Is the enterprise tracking how the innovation impacts other enterprise
operations?
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28. Is long term and short term variability accounted for?
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29. What are the typical phases in architecture analysis process?
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30. How does the system design impact or involve end-user devices?
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31. Was a data collection plan established?
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32. What techniques can be used to prepare real-time streaming data for
analysis?
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33. When completing the Applications Architecture, if the impact analysis
reveals a significant change is needed to the business architecture, what may
be warranted?
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34. What is mda - model driven architecture and how does it impact the
design process?
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35. Are the levels and Focus right for TOGAF Enterprise Architecture?
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36. When user access requirements increase because of business needs, does
the security or network administrator just modify the access controls
without the user managers documented approval?
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37. What are the key input variables? What are the key process variables? What
are the key output variables?
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38. Have you found any ‘ground fruit’ or ‘low-hanging fruit’ for immediate
remedies to the gap in performance?
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39. How do you assess the impact of new networking components?
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40. Have recent changes been made that impact on the Business
Architecture?
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41. What is the impact of changing business goals and requirements on the
architecture?
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42. How large is the gap between current performance and the customerspecified (goal) performance?
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43. How will cognitive analytics affect the interpretation of big data for
decision making?
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44. What are some common industry-accepted analysis tools?
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45. What is the total cost of the migration, and what benefits will it deliver?
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46. How are you impacting the business?
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47. What charts has the team used to display the components of variation in the
process?
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48. Who participated in the data collection for measurements?
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49. How did migration to off-premises technologies impact your asset
management strategy?
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50. How can data modeling and analysis be integrated into the decisionmaking process?
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51. Have you identified a technology strategy that impacts entire enterprise?
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52. Is Process Variation Displayed/Communicated?
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53. What are architecturally significant design decisions that might require
additional analysis?
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54. How has corporate financial management been engaged in evaluation of
lifecycle costs?
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55. Are process variation components displayed/communicated using suitable
charts, graphs, plots?
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56. Is your business entirely focused on big data?
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57. How is compliance impacted by outsourcing, offshoring or off-premises
processing?
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58. What is the impact of changes in the architecture on the business goals
and stakeholders?
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59. How do you determine the priority of a risk given its probability and
impact?
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60. How does convergence impact on Technical Architecture?
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61. What impacts will the new design have on existing business processes,
organizations, and information systems?
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62. What has the team done to assure the stability and accuracy of the
measurement process?
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63. How does it impact information sharing and interoperability among
organizational components?
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64. How does asset management impact technology strategy decisions?
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65. Have recent changes been made that impact the Data Architecture?
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66. What key measures identified indicate the performance of the stakeholder
process?
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67. How might the data gathering and analysis have been done differently?
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68. What is the impact of replacing data servers?
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Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:
INTENT: Analyze causes, assumptions and hypotheses.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Will there be an opportunity to meet with your organization prior to RFP
issuance?
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2. Are multiple software and/or data versions allowed in production?
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3. How can an operating system make sure a process only interacts with its
memory segment?
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4. How do you move the negotiation process out from the stand-still phase?
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5. What architecture governance process provides a formal method to
register, validate, ratify, manage and publish new or updated architecture
content?
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6. What kind of objects shall process the system?
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7. How do you accelerate that process?
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8. What business actions correspond to the deletion of the data and is it
considered part of your organization record?
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9. How should data science teams be constructed and organized?
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10. What applications or systems do you use/ know to receive, transform
and send data?
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11. What data flows or messages are passed along with an invocation?
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12. How to model business activities and business processes?
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13. What (data) – what is the business data, information or objects?
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14. What is your current, or as is, data system?
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15. Does it allow integration and consolidation of data into a central
repository?
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16. Where does data warehousing fit?
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17. What is the business process that you supported with the
project/solution?
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18. How do you mitigate the concerns about privacy of data?
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19. What are the challenges of data blending?
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20. How did multi-core technology change architectures of the modern data
center?
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21. What are the data you are trying to share and why?
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22. Which applications and/or data stores are in which security domain?
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23. Is it an architecture framework, a methodology, a process or a
taxonomy?
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24. What are some patterns of data partitioning?
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25. How are new data elements added?
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26. Which steps are performed in the IT strategy formulation process?
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27. What does your data system look like?
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28. Does the system have to fuse data from different sources?
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29. What were the disadvantages of bug tracking process you used?
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30. How does your organization build an effective big data governance
strategy?
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31. Are there other applications, which must share the data server?
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32. Which version of the data object is the correct one?
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33. How is data and information currently utilized in the manufacturing
preparation process and the execution of manual assembly operation?
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34. Does TOGAF separate process from artifacts?
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35. Do you identify your role in the key activity process?
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36. Do you weight the data on an assembly instruction according to its
importance to assembly operations?
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37. How does your organization keep product data?
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38. Are the processes clearly defined and documented?
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39. Does the method separate process from artifacts?
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40. How is the business organized into autonomous business processes?
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41. What are the latest data center development strategies and trends?
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42. How did you manage process and technology integration?
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43. What service components are being used to support the business and
process?
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44. Is trying to represent the use of Groupware, or the process of
collaboration?
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45. What data is available for you to perform your task?
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46. Which items will be included in the Data Architecture?
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47. What are the data entity and attribute access rules, which protect the
data from unintentional and unauthorized alterations, disclosure, and
distribution?
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48. What show a process using function symbol?
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49. What system capabilities will involve high-volume and/or highfrequency data transfers?
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50. Who are the actors involved in the design process of the dashboard?
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51. How do you relate business requirements to architecture and business
processes?
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52. How do you link architecture lifecycle with asset management
processes?
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53. What is the decision process for cyber deterrence?
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54. How will you get at the data, transform it, and make it available to your
users?
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55. What is it you are hoping to achieve through the new process or
processing activity?
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56. Where is the data coming from and going to?
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57. How does it help you to address the challenges of Data Governance?
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58. What is an average power density of efficient data center?
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59. What data that is currently handled by the stakeholders?
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60. What is the function/process distinction?
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61. What is the correct value for data, now?
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62. How long is data to be retained?
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63. How many ways to visualize model data does it provide?
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64. When untraceable artifact is caught, what is the process of its
integration?
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65. When asked why do you do that process?
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66. How did you support (internal or external) auditors and in what phases
of auditing process?
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67. Why do you currently have to go outside the normal bureaucratic
process?
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68. Who controls change management of processes?
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69. How can one streamline the initial screening process in corporate
entrepreneurship?
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70. How do you show that the architecture and its processes satisfy the
concerns and goals of the stakeholders?
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71. How do architecture processes relate to other enterprise engineering
activities?
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72. Does the business opportunity come with some relationships?
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73. What processes need to be developed and/or re-engineered to support a
new strategy?
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74. How is data change propagated in a distributed environment?
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75. Where do you get the data and information to create an assembly
instruction from?
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76. Is client data shared with any third parties?
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77. What is the related data, information or objects?
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78. How do you measure efficiency of Application Development process?
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79. Are there new processes to be defined?
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80. Which access control concepts are required in the business process
domain?
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81. What (data)–what is the business data or business information?
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82. What is the main process of the platform?
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83. What system capabilities will involve high-volume and/or high
frequency data transfers?
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84. What makes the animation process distinctive from live action?
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85. When does the enterprise fulfil the transformation process?
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86. What kind of semantic interoperability problems exist in business
process knowledge management?
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87. What are the specific capabilities you will need to get the data into a
usable form in the desire locations at the appropriate times?
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88. What kind of flexible storage can accommodate undefined data
formats?
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89. How can internet spyware companies subvert network defenses and be
able to exfiltrate data?
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90. What groups of people should be involved in procurement-related
business processes?
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91. Does your organization have verified data backup procedures?
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92. What key process suffers from the issues?
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93. Is reporting and merging data from multiple systems is a problem?
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94. Which procurement-related business processes are supported by zero,
one, or many existing applications?
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95. What data will need to be shared?
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96. What determines the business objects, data and materials?
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97. What is the appropriate use of the data?
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98. What is the user data backup frequency and expected restore time?
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99. Do you know of opportunities in your business domain?
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100. How are the already stated business processes related to each other?
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101. Can the reliability of various data types be assessed as a precursor to
trusting it?
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102. What is lost in the process of presenting distinct technology choices in
an overlapping way?
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103. What validation process did you follow to assure the adherence to
requirements?
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104. How is data change propagated in distributed environment?
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105. When would you need encrypted data transfer on the private
(protected) network?
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106. What is in your (data architecture) wallet?
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107. How can users outside the native delivery environment access your
applications and data?
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108. Where do you get additional data, if required?
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109. How do you add new data elements?
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110. Is the business process/function associated with a place or a location?
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111. Do you need guaranteed data delivery or update, or the system tolerate
failure?
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112. Which data flows pass between security domains?
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113. What was your selection process for IT suppliers that you used on the
project?
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114. Is there any transformation of the data done?
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115. Where do the functionalities fit in the business processes?
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116. Does the data provide the required information?
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117. What applications cooperate in the execution of a process?
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118. How would you articulate the value of good design process to business
stakeholders?
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119. How do you import/export or load/unload data?
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120. What is the significance of data management in manufacturing
operations?
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121. Is trust in the data universal, or selective?
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122. Why should you prevent errors and ensure the right
process/information outcomes are delivered?
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123. How does your organization assess the risk and benefits associated with
storing data in the cloud?
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124. What processes does it provide for preparation for architecture?
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125. What is the demand for data management in manufacturing
operations?
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126. Will you repurpose existing software applications and data structures
or purchase new?
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127. What other factors affect your data?
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128. Is the system expected to reason with incomplete data?
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129. What processes are in place to ensure compliance with the methods?
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130. Which data on the resources will be accessed?
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131. How to identify top level business process?
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132. Is the information you are processing well secured?
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133. What was your contribution in an RFP process (either on bidding or
selecting side)?
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134. How are software and data configured mapped to the service and
system configuration?
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135. How to establish business process hierarchy?
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136. What kind of semantic interoperability problems exist in process
knowledge management?
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137. Do process modelling techniques get better?
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138. What are the requirements/needs at each step of the process?
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139. What kind of data do you usually use?
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140. How to link activities into business processes?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:
INTENT: Develop a practical solution. Innovate, establish and test the solution
and to measure the results.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Was a pilot designed for the proposed solution(s)?
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2. How should good design decisions be made when creating the Design
Model?
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3. Are new projects likely to deliver solutions that meet business needs?
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4. How do you ensure business engagement in architecture development and
use?
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5. What are the concerns affecting the sustainable development of an
industrial software system?
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6. How do the metrics and the phase of the EA development, or the EA
maturity level, interrelate with each other?
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7. Describe the design of the pilot and what tests were conducted, if any?
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8. How security architecture could be developed as a part of EA?
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9. What approach would you use to improve poor overall design efficiency?
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10. What key business metric did you try to improve with your decisionsupport system?
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11. How EA frameworks could support security architecture development?
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12. Is it seen as improving or hampering business agility?
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13. Why do you need to be able to understand business strategy?
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14. What lessons, if any, from a pilot were incorporated into the design of the
full-scale solution?
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15. How does the solution remove the key sources of issues discovered in the
analyze phase?
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16. How do you evaluate the different strategies exist in different
frameworks?
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17. How do you make the whole role based access line understandable?
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18. How should the architect manage risk?
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19. How much re-packaging would your solution require to make its
installation SaaS-ready?
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20. How do you sustain your ability to change and improve?
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21. Is the implementation plan designed?
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22. What part of the Enterprise Continuum is the repository for reusable
solution building blocks?
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23. How do you optimize your networking components?
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24. Is there a cost/benefit analysis of optimal solution(s)?
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25. Should decisions on treatment be based on absolute benefit rather than
absolute risk?
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26. What are the side effects of poorly designed development-related quality
attributes?
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27. What communications are necessary to support the implementation of the
solution?
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28. Are the methods documented and distributed to each team member?
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29. Are there any constraints (technical, political, cultural, or otherwise) that
would inhibit certain solutions?
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30. Do you believe ontology development is useful for Knowledge
Management?
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31. Does your organization have the resources needed to develop
components?
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32. What decisions must be made to ensure effective management and use?
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33. Are new and improved process (‘should be’) maps developed?
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34. What is the implementation plan?
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35. What is the difference between evaluation and validation?
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36. What are the expected SLAs for support operation of solution?
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37. Which would be least likely to be used as a resource in developing the
baseline technology architecture?
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38. Is there a small-scale pilot for proposed improvement(s)? What conclusions
were drawn from the outcomes of a pilot?
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39. Is the optimal solution selected based on testing and analysis?
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40. What specifically would prompt you to develop an architecture?
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41. How did you balance the demand for rapid iterative development and
traceability requirement?
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42. What service contracts will be offered by the developers?
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43. What information do you need to make the better business decisions?
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44. What does the ‘should be’ process map/design look like?
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45. How will the group know that the solution worked?
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46. What development methodologies are you experienced in?
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47. What attendant changes will need to be made to ensure that the solution is
successful?
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48. How security architecture could be developed independent of EA?
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49. What error proofing will be done to address some of the discrepancies
observed in the ‘as is’ process?
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50. Are improved process (‘should be’) maps modified based on pilot data and
analysis?
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51. What are reasons for the rare use of existing knowledge management
solutions?
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52. How do you make sense of all available information and decide how
much of it to use and how?
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53. What are the business objectives of a new product development in your
organization?
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54. What tools were most useful during the improve phase?
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55. Which does TOGAF recommend for use in developing the architecture
vision?
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56. Does Enterprise Architecture modelling improve risk management?
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57. Is the enterprise evaluating the innovation?
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58. How EA frameworks can support enterprises to develop security
architecture?
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59. How do you improve team performance?
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60. Is the developed conceptual model suitable in terms of used concepts?
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61. What specifically would prompt you to develop an Enterprise
Architecture?
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62. Is the enterprise achieving optimum use of its resources?
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63. How much will you spend on developing or updating your Enterprise
Architecture?
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64. Is a contingency plan established?
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65. What business risks need to be managed?
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66. Are clear system frameworks developed?
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67. What type of risk response is being audited?
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68. What is TOGAF’s impact on utilizing the best solution(s)?
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69. How did you manage to lower the risk of decision making on the
project?
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70. What components must be developed?
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71. How much will you spend on developing or updating your enterprise
architecture using TOGAF?
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72. What architectural knowledge is needed to design solution
architectures?
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73. What are the significant business risks today?
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74. What is the team’s contingency plan for potential problems occurring in
implementation?
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75. What do you know about agile software development?
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76. Is a solution implementation plan established, including schedule/work
breakdown structure, resources, risk management plan, cost/budget, and control
plan?
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77. Are the best solutions selected?
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78. Is pilot data collected and analyzed?
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79. What were the underlying assumptions on the cost-benefit analysis?
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80. How is it Used in Architecture Development?
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81. Are business decisions made without taking security into account?
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82. What is a systems development methodology?
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83. What are the major aspects of application development?
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84. Do changes to the Enterprise Architecture affect software developers?
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85. What risk identification method do you use?
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86. Which is a technique recommended by TOGAF to help identify and
understand requirements?
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87. What are the best steps that you can take in order to improve the
architecture function?
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88. What tools were used to evaluate the potential solutions?
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89. What was the exception handling strategy in your solution?
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90. Why a decision is made, based on the enterprise mission and objectives?
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91. How to develop Enterprise Architecture?
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92. How can the enterprise achieve the best solution?
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93. How did the team generate the list of possible solutions?
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94. What were the deviations from chosen framework and why did you
decide to diverge from it?
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95. Are possible solutions generated and tested?
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96. How will the team or the process owner(s) monitor the implementation plan
to see that it is working as intended?
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97. Is a user story in agile development a view or a viewpoint (or neither)?
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98. Were any criteria developed to assist the team in testing and evaluating
potential solutions?
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99. Who pays for the development and maintenance of the service?
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100. Are stovepipe (point) solutions implemented instead of enterprise-wide
solutions?
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101. What technique does TOGAF recommend for evaluating the status of
your organization to undergo change?
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102. How to model the resources consumed, modified and produced that
result of executing an activity?
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103. Does the architecture address high-risk areas, or is the risk appetite
low?
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104. What tools were used to tap into the creativity and encourage ‘outside the
box’ thinking?
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105. What do you see as possible areas for the further development of
LEAN?
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106. How does the design anticipate change in type of expressions to be
evaluated?
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107. Are the software developers excited about changes to the system when
the architecture is changed?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:
INTENT: Implement the practical solution. Maintain the performance and
correct possible complications.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. Which types of architecture defines technology standards for building
blocks and provides direction for products and services?
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2. Is there a transfer of ownership and knowledge to process owner and process
team tasked with the responsibilities.
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3. What is it that makes the TOGAF standard stand out, and what is the
value of studying it?
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4. What new business models could result from hyperscale use of data?
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5. What are the current technical standards?
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6. How did you gain and maintain control of the asset inventory within your
organization?
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7. How can data assets be augmented with annotations using natural
language processing, machine learning, tagging, and so on to assist in
drawing useful inferences?
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8. Are documented procedures clear and easy to follow for the operators?
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9. Are operating procedures consistent?
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10. What, for you, is the typical timescale and scope for an architecture
project?
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11. Is an architecture framework needed for large scale, complex projects?
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12. How does an architect set testing levels and quality standards?
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13. What is a well-balanced development plan of an Architect?
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14. Is there a control plan in place for sustaining improvements (short and longterm)?
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15. Is new knowledge gained imbedded in the response plan?
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16. How will the day-to-day responsibilities for monitoring and continual
improvement be transferred from the improvement team to the process owner?
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17. What are the critical parameters to watch?
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18. How effective is your information systems planning?
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19. Have the security controls been implemented, or is there an
implementation plan in place?
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20. Do you use standard triggers/events that should evoke the player to take
action?
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21. Does it include version control?
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22. What key inputs and outputs are being measured on an ongoing basis?
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23. Do you consider learning goals as basis for the scenario and
triggers/events?
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24. How did you enforce governance standards on the last project?
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25. Have new or revised work instructions resulted?
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26. Is knowledge gained on process shared and institutionalized?
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27. Is there a standardized process?
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28. Does the response plan contain a definite closed loop continual improvement
scheme (e.g., plan-do-check-act)?
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29. What are the relevant standards?
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30. What standards do you use for usability design and evaluation?
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31. How will report readings be checked to effectively monitor performance?
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32. Which best describes the Standards Information Base?
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33. Is the scope of the project sufficient for a contribution to the long-term
plan?
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34. How can different data types be fused on a massive scale?
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35. Is the investment being managed within the planned cost, schedule, and
design?
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36. Did you thought about what standards are needed or followed in the
design?
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37. What kind of organization is the TOGAF standard suitable for?
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38. How to establish control flows, business functions and procedures?
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39. How and when will projects submit project plans to be reviewed for EA
compliance?
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40. What would be your plan for solving the problems?
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41. Does the TOGAF performance meet the customer’s requirements?
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42. Why is TOGAF the leading standard?
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43. Who monitors and manages SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions?
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44. Is a response plan in place for when the input, process, or output measures
indicate an ‘out-of-control’ condition?
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45. Is it a standards-based integrated architecture repository?
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46. What architecture framework are you planning to use?
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47. What kind of architecture does the TOGAF standard deal with?
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48. What other areas of the group might benefit from the TOGAF team’s
improvements, knowledge, and learning?
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49. Is there documentation that will support the successful operation of the
improvement?
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50. Will any special training be provided for results interpretation?
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51. How do you relate to the Business Planning / strategy process?
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52. What is the recommended frequency of auditing?
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53. Does job training on the documented procedures need to be part of the
process team’s education and training?
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54. Has the improved process and its steps been standardized?
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55. How will the process owner and team be able to hold the gains?
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56. Are any of the capabilities required provided by standard products
supporting one or more Line-of-Business applications?
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57. Will the completed plant/system enhance (or inhibit) future business
flexibility?
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58. Who is driving the most important standards?
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59. How is IT governance different from good it management practices and
control?
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60. How does the Annual Performance Plan relate to your organizations
Enterprise Architecture?
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61. How did you monitor the network saturation caused by your web
services?
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62. Is there a recommended audit plan for routine surveillance inspections of
TOGAF’s gains?
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63. Are there documented procedures?
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64. Who would benefit from using the TOGAF standard?
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65. Are new process steps, standards, and documentation ingrained into normal
operations?
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66. What is the control/monitoring plan?
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67. Is there a written test plan along with documented test results?
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68. How did you incorporate sustainability requirements (Green IT) into
your plans?
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69. Is reporting being used or needed?
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70. What quality tools were useful in the control phase?
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71. What happens when the architecture plan needs to change at a moments
notice?
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72. Is there a documented and implemented monitoring plan?
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73. Which standards characteristics increase system flexibility?
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74. How will the enterprise adopt a given standard consistently?
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75. How do the developers use standard solutions?
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76. Are suggested corrective/restorative actions indicated on the response plan
for known causes to problems that might surface?
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77. Who is the TOGAF process owner?
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78. Why do other organizations need to do aggregate planning?
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79. Is a response plan established and deployed?
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80. What other systems, operations, processes, and infrastructures (hiring
practices, staffing, training, incentives/rewards, metrics/dashboards/scorecards,
etc.) need updates, additions, changes, or deletions in order to facilitate
knowledge transfer and improvements?
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81. How might the group capture best practices and lessons learned so as to
leverage improvements?
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82. How will new or emerging customer needs/requirements be
checked/communicated to orient the process toward meeting the new
specifications and continually reducing variation?
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83. What procedures are there to control software quality?
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84. What modeling techniques are currently used in the domain of disaster
control?
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85. What is the plan for making the already stated improvements?
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86. What should the next improvement project be that is related to TOGAF?
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87. What is wrong with using current Metadata standards?
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88. How will input, process, and output variables be checked to detect for suboptimal conditions?
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89. How will the process owner verify improvement in present and future sigma
levels, process capabilities?
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90. What standards are the products or components built on?
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91. Why use the TOGAF standard as a framework for Enterprise
Architecture?
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92. What standards and products provide the needed capabilities?
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93. How are requirements used in project planning and estimation?
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94. What procedures do you have to control software quality?
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95. What sources do you use to monitor emerging trends and shape the
strategy?
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96. Does a troubleshooting guide exist or is it needed?
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97. What is the purpose of The Open Groups Standards Information Base?
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CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:
INTENT: Retain the benefits.
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3 Neutral
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1. How are service calls received and dispatched?
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2. Are risk management tasks balanced centrally and locally?
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3. Is the model that it produces executable?
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4. Is there a growing divide between your business and IT folks?
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5. Are the most efficient solutions problem-specific?
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6. What differentiates successful Enterprise Architectures from
unsuccessful ones?
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7. Which views is least likely to be useful in the technology architecture
model?
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8. What is the projects lifecycle approach?
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9. Why are systems and networks vulnerable to cyber attack?
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10. When would a bottoms-up approach to design be desirable over a topdown approach?
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11. Which framework(s) resonate(s) in your organization?
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12. Do you benefit from that accumulation of knowledge?
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13. What are the specific business benefits?
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14. Where (network)– where are the businesses operations?
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15. How is unwanted software introduction restricted given the Inter net?
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16. Who would benefit from using TOGAF?
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17. What tools are used for software distribution?
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18. Which franchise has the highest number of internal complaints
(franchise originated)?
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19. How does the suggested method fit within the cycle?
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20. Who contributes to your organization scenarios?
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21. What advice would you give to an aspiring architect?
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22. Is the idea in the enterprise interest?
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23. Is there start-up funding for the business?
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24. Does TOGAF present the same idea, that architecture domains are
layers?
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25. Which best describes the Integrated Information Infrastructure
Reference Model?
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26. What is architecture, Enterprise Architecture?
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27. Did you get complaints or negative feedback?
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28. What is a Type you error in a biometric system?
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29. Why is sustainability relevant for the industry of your customer (or
organization)?
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30. How do you implement it in the enterprise?
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31. Who are the TOGAF decision makers?
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32. Which model within TOGAF is intended to assist with the release
management of the TOGAF specification?
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33. What alternative responses are available to manage risk?
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34. What are the signs of poor design?
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35. How geographically distributed is the user base?
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36. What, to you, is the architecture of architecture?
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37. Which architecture frameworks do you use?
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38. Which best describes the purpose of your organizationment of
Architecture Work?
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39. What are the maintenance considerations?
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40. When is a good time to shut down the technology that underpins the
business?
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41. What changes would recommend to the framework?
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42. What is the primary purpose of the formal checkpoint review in the
Technology Architecture phase?
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43. When asked, what is information systems architecture?
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44. What is the overall service and system configuration?
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45. What are important things for the enterprise?
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46. What for TOGAF repositary is used?
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47. What tools would actually help you be a better business technology
strategist?
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48. Should the enterprise pursue the idea?
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49. Who should own a technology investment budget?
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50. What is the great thing about better employee engagement?
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51. How do you propagate a security change throughout the system?
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52. How do you migrate implicit legacy assumptions to the cloud?
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53. How long to keep data and how to manage retention costs?
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54. What will the business be, in the future?
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55. How did you handle change management in your architecture?
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56. How are the differences between the As-is architecture and the To-be
architecture visible?
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57. When selecting the specifications for the Technology Architecture, which
would be least appropriate as a selection criteria?
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58. What are the assets to be protected by your security architecture?
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59. What users will be impacted?
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60. Where if at all is enterprise-architecture sited in your organization?
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61. How does an enterprise avoid becoming road kill or, even better, thrive
in the churn that is capitalism?
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62. How do you keep implementations on track to the architecture?
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63. Where is the security architecture?
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64. What percentage of the users use the system in browse mode versus
update mode?
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65. How does reuse happen in the Object-Oriented world?
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66. Is any ontology or model completely devoid of ambiguity?
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67. Why is designing for maintenance so important?
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68. What is your organization system?
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69. How did you first come across the concept of business capabilities?
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70. What was the feedback received from and perceived by the employees?
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71. Who manages supplier risk management in your organization?
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72. What is enterprise architecture and why are people doing it?
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73. Will there be a core architecture group that does all the modeling?
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74. What do architectural products look like?
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75. Are you starting to get a sense of why Enterprise Architectures can be so
expensive?
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76. What are specifics of the industry that your customer (or organization)
is in?
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77. How much responsibility and accountability should an architect accept?
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78. Which services shall be implemented first?
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79. What is program management from your organization view?
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80. Are the key business and technology risks being managed?
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81. Which Enterprise Architecture framework have been used in your
organization?
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82. Do multiple systems exist in the business?
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83. What is a suitable structure for the contents?
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84. What are the specific business benefits of participation?
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85. Which biometric method is most effective?
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86. Which describes a purpose of an Architecture Compliance review?
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87. Does that diagram represent good partitioning?
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88. What other languages have you used for enterprise modelling?
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89. How much architecture/how much governance?
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90. Why TOGAF as an architecture framework?
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91. What makes an architecture framework?
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92. What do enterprise-architects do?
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93. Which companies must comply with SOX?
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94. How do you deploy an application to a given PaaS platform?
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95. Do you see technologies changing your view on Enterprise Architectures
and if so, how?
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96. Can it performance be linked back to business goals?
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97. Which architectures in the Architecture Continuum contains the most
re-usable architecture elements?
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98. How easy is it to get a foothold in your industry or market?
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99. Where in the framework would ethics sit?
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100. Does the method separate structure from behaviour?
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101. Should baseline be applied throughout whole enterprise?
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102. Where (network)–where are the businesses operations?
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103. What is the best way to design, build, and operate services?
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104. What was your level of concern on the project and how did you design
and model it?
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105. Is the work to date meeting requirements?
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106. What is the difference between Proof of concept, prototype and pilot?
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107. Which type of authentication factor are you implementing?
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108. How do you ensure that technology investment provides return beyond
investment?
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109. Are procedures documented for managing TOGAF risks?
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110. Does the external-internal distinction appear in TOGAF?
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111. Will the architecture designs live after the project has been
implemented?
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112. How simple should the architecture be?
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113. What should an IT Architecture do?
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114. How are other organizations progressing?
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115. How structured is the EA practice in your organization?
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116. Do you automatically navigate the model using TOGAF as a navigation
structure?
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117. Which responsibilities are performed by the core team of IT
governance?
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118. Who did security validation and how did you assist?
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119. Does it support the framework that your organization has chosen to
use?
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120. Which is a responsibility of an Architecture Board?
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121. What is the ultimate design goal of tuning and balancing?
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122. Who affects or is affected by any given piece of the business?
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123. What applications do you see for the business capabilities?
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124. What incentives are effective to persuade individuals to update own
knowledge?
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125. What feedback do you usually get from your peers?
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126. What are common tasks that network administrators perform for end
users of IT?
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127. What is the right level of granularity?
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128. How have enterprise-wide implementations and innovation been
characterized in the literature?
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129. What is a function of a framework?
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130. Does the method separate the specific from the general?
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131. How might architecture be modified so that it adds more value to your
organization?
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132. Does the structure-behaviour distinction appear in TOGAF?
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133. Who are the people that run the business, what are the business units
and hierarchy?
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134. Does the method separate logical from physical?
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135. How did you integrate your technology stack in chosen architecture
methodology?
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136. How do you get value from the use of IT?
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137. What is the original source of the service portfolio used to select
services for the building blocks that are included in the technology
architecture model?
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138. Which one is an objective of Phase A, Architecture Vision?
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139. Which component within the Architecture Repository holds best
practice or template materials that can be used to construct architectures?
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140. What viewpoint did you use to assure the integrity of your
architecture?
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141. Can the tool be used in all the geographic locations and/or language
domains in which architecture work is done?
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142. What kind of deployment models and from which vendors?
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143. How do you enhance performance of assets through good asset
management?
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144. What is a knowledge representation?
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145. What is an Enterprise Architecture and why is it important?
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146. How valuable is Enterprise Architecture for you?
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147. What is the concept structure and what are the relationships between
concepts?
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148. Is mobile consumer experience relevant to your business and do you
afford it?
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149. Where have domain-specific and task-specific knowledge acquisition
tools been successful?
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150. Where does one begin to look for information about local life?
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151. What is your current definition of Enterprise Architecture?
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152. What are ea architectural principles?
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153. Does the general-to-specific dimension appear in TOGAF?
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154. How many possible 2D frameworks are possible?
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155. What types of limitations should you expect from infrastructure team?
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156. What dependencies among projects and IT artefacts do exist?
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157. What approach does TOGAF recommend in an instance?
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158. What is level of technological knowledge and capability?
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159. What is the TOGAF business impact?
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160. What is the connection between social media and protecting your other
computer accounts?
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161. Which best describes the purpose of the Architecture Vision?
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162. What is the best way to simplify a highly complex system?
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163. What Enterprise Architecture strategy would best suit windows-r-us
and why?
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164. Why is TOGAF suitable as a framework for Enterprise Architecture?
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165. How is entry point into Enterprise Architecture different than other
companies?
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166. Does the method present domains as layers?
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167. What are some advantages of your new architecture?
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168. How will corresponding data be collected?
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169. How to design module interfaces?
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170. How does release management work?
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171. Who is responsible for executing the social strategy?
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172. How do you take existing scenario and modify it for a specific
industry?
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173. Which information is missing and how should it be published /
illustrated?
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174. Which Enterprise Architecture framework has been used in your
organization?
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175. Is the timeline implementation framework applicable in other
domains?
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176. Do metrics exist for the current way of doing business?
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177. What is a technology investment portfolio?
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178. How would you assess the architecture of architecture itself?
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179. How many current users and what is the growth rate?
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180. Have you ever used any of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks in
your organization?
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181. What happens when a service is changed?
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182. Is a society-sourced metaphor a good choice for modelling enterprise
systems?
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183. How do you describe as-is and to-be architecture?
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184. What is business and it alignment?
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185. Who approves changes to existing services?
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186. How do you ensure an emphasis on business-purpose in your
architecture?
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187. What business services are offered online by your organization?
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188. How many vendors do you have by line of business?
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189. Are you allowed to disagree with the TOGAF meta model?
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190. What design model is used for business stakeholders?
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191. How do you start up a new architecture-project?
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192. What is the value to the client?
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193. Do the viable solutions scale to future needs?
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194. Are the EA objectives aligned with the business strategy of your
organization?
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195. Why are reference architectures implemented to begin with?
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196. What actor or organization unit do you acquire to play the role or
perform the function?
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197. Who does enterprise architecting?
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198. How do you build high-performing team?
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199. What is the Architecture Repository?
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200. What is the Enterprise Continuum?
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201. Is TOGAF really based on best practice?
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202. How many artifacts you used in traditional EA projects?
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203. Where are architecture building blocks stored?
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204. Is the content, provided by the EA governance, comprehensive enough?
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205. What tectonic shifts could invalidate your Enterprise References?
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206. How does the TOGAF framework fit in?
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207. What is the difference of a strategic business capability and your
organization capability?
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208. Who (people) – who are the people that run the business, what are the
business units and hierarchy?
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209. Is knowledge associated with the WHAT and HOW perspectives always
deterministic?
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210. How much does your organization spend on maintenance?
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211. What knowledge or experience is required?
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212. What was the marketing strategy for the product/service you created?
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213. What does a software architect do?
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214. What hardware and operating system choices have been made before
functional design of key elements of the system?
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215. Is TOGAF documentation maintained?
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216. What areas of the enterprise are being architected?
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217. How much do TOGAF certified enterprise architects earn on average?
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218. Have the assumptions in the business case been subject to scrutiny?
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219. Do you consider the frameworks to be relevant and correctly used?
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220. What enterprise integration patterns do you know?
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221. Why is readiness and knowledge transfer important in modern
enterprises?
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222. Which one is responsible for the acceptance and sign-off of an
Architecture Compliance review?
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223. What is the level of production?
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224. What is the enterprise coverage segment?
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225. How is technology audit linked to compliance review?
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226. Is actual best practice reflected in TOGAF?
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227. What tools are being used on the project?
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228. How do you track the business value of architectural artifacts?
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229. What external organizations or systems will be affected?
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230. What is the consistency of all the services and what does the
information exchange look like?
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231. How did your architecture description change as you moved from
waterfall to agile SDLC?
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232. Is the resource-based view a useful perspective for strategic
management research?
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233. Is it used at the right level of abstraction?
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234. Which best describes a purpose of the Business Scenarios technique?
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235. Which organizations promote or regulate the industry?
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236. How do quality attributes affect the overall system design?
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237. Will the architectures be integrated?
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238. How are user accounts created and managed?
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239. What support will you find in TOGAF?
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240. Who is working on your Enterprise Architecture?
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241. What kinds of architecture does TOGAF deal with?
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242. What role does Systems Engineering play in the overall success of
modern engineering systems?
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243. How involved is the individual in the Enterprise Architecture
initiative?
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244. Which EA frameworks are used in your organization?
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245. What is the technology architecture?
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246. Do you know of (financial) constraints in your business domain?
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247. What formal architecture descriptions did you create?
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248. Can you integrate quality management and risk management?
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249. Can lean be used to capture information from different business and
technical domains?
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250. What formal methodology if any do you use for your current
architecture?
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251. Why are end users the most significant vulnerability in cyber security?
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252. Should an it architect be able to replace a technical pm on the project?
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253. How do you actually DO Architecture?
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254. How do currently available methodologies support the activity?
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255. Why is enterprise architecture dying?
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256. Why bother with Business Functions?
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257. What are the frameworks that support the whole systems design?
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258. What is an Enterprise Architecture (EA)?
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259. What systems/processes must you excel at?
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260. Does management have the right priorities among projects?
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261. Why would anyone think that the descriptions of an Enterprise are
going to be any different from the descriptions of anything else humanity
has ever described?
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262. What is a baseline architecture?
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263. Why are different knowledge acquisition techniques appropriate for
certain types of task?
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264. Who will facilitate the team and process?
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265. Will the enterprise receive source code upon demise of the vendor?
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266. Who and when updated the CMDB with the new information?
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267. How strictly do you follow your chosen framework (within EA)?
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268. What is the condition of your team or organizations culture, right now?
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269. What are the primary benefits of using an EA?
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270. Do you regularly coach others in industry awareness and direction?
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271. Who is responsible for architecture policies?
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272. Does the method separate external from internal?
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273. When selecting application architecture building blocks, what objects
should be considered first?
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274. What assumptions are made about the solution and approach?
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275. Is there any other TOGAF solution?
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276. What is the frequency of software changes that must be distributed?
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277. Where did enterprise architecture come from?
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278. What, why and how to model in the enterprise?
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279. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the TOGAF for Cloud
Ecosystems approach?
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280. How does your organizational constitution help your organization,
department, or team?
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281. What do you find about Infrastructure Portfolio Management in
TOGAF?
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282. Has research of existing architectures been done to leverage existing
work?
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283. What TOGAF data will be collected?
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284. What would be the actual business benefit of each of?
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285. Are there weaknesses in your business and marketing cores?
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286. Do you consider the transition from a framework for Information
Systems to a framework for Enterprise Architectures?
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287. How will the data be checked for quality?
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288. How do you review the value of your architecture work?
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289. What is a capability and how is it related to business and IT?
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290. Which information is hard to retrieve and why?
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291. How are architectural patterns being packaged for reuse?
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292. What compromise did you negotiate with the Enterprise Architecture
group?
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293. Why should your organization bother?
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294. Where do you find more EA information?
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295. How do you ensure predictable uptime of a service?
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296. What are the common tools used to capture and organize views and
viewpoints?
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297. Is the current architecture supporting and adding value to your
organization?
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298. What are your industry peers doing, and how are you placed in relation
to them?
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299. Is the TOGAF solution sustainable?
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300. What elements can be seen inside an activity system?
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301. Where are the locations critical to the business?
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302. How do you check quality based on the configuration?
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303. Are the relations between the concepts selected correct?
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304. What are the overall goals of the business?
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305. Which parts of enterprise can be protected by the same baseline?
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306. Do you have operational, application and business perspectives?
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307. Why a framework for IT Architecture?
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308. What are frameworks and how do you select one?
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309. How can be indicated how the compliance of your organization rule
should be regulated?
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310. What is the role of the reference architecture?
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311. What is the enterprise operational strategy?
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312. What is the vision of the future?
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313. What is the expected ROI of the architecture?
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314. What are the backup procedures and are all the system capabilities
there to backup in time?
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315. Why might you want to consider a staged, or incremental,
implementation of a given architectural work package?
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316. Does it support the enterprise in complying with regulations and
service levels?
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317. What are ways that cloud trust relationships can be strengthened?
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318. What will be the business benefit of doing Enterprise Architecture?
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319. What perspectives on knowledge are represented at the System level?
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320. Is there any knowledge based engineering in your organization?
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321. Is there any way to speed up the process?
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322. How did you build the repository that enabled decomposition and reuse
by the team?
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323. Who are your customers (or organization) competitors in the same
industry segment?
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324. What is the size of the user base and expected performance level?
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325. Is it really so valuable for organizations?
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326. What is the system license management strategy?
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327. How is existing functionality within legacy mainframe systems to be reengineered or wrapped into reusable services?
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328. Do you know what a corporate business strategy is?
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329. What are your backup procedures and are all the system capabilities
there to backup in time?
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330. What is the benefit to organizations of greater employee engagement?
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331. What does the enterprise want to be as it evolves?
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332. What is innovation and how does it relate to the strategy?
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333. Who is responsible for making changes, end users, or security
stewards?
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334. How does TOGAF help to deliver an effective it architecture?
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335. Do you consume Cloud services in your organization?
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336. Is value set the expansion or the other machinery that supports it?
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337. What constitutes a reference architecture?
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338. Can a value stream stage be further decomposed?
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339. How do you know whether a typical Enterprise Architecture is good or
bad?
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340. What are the processes for audit reporting and management?
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341. Where is your Enterprise Architecture?
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342. What should you do to assess your organizations architecture of
respect?
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343. How could you confirm that business goals and objectives are met by
the final Technology Architecture?
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344. What is a Security Architecture?
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345. Have you used business capabilities, and, if so, how?
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346. Who must lead your team or organizations culture shift?
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347. Does its security design support corporate security policies?
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348. What information do you collect during architecture work?
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349. Do you have the optimal project management team structure?
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350. How can technology architecture be managed?
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351. What actors and organization units can be acquired to play the roles
and perform the functions?
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352. What type of organization are you working in and what is your
function within it?
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353. Do you have Enterprise Architecture in your organization?
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354. Is there a list of frameworks that you are interested in selecting from?
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355. How can Enterprise Architecture contribute to addressing the new
realities of organizations?
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356. What is marketing and why is it relevant to an Architect?
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357. What are the various types of architecture frameworks?
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358. Who are the top leaders in the industry?
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359. Do you or your architecture team use TOGAF?
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360. What information is important for the architecture?
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361. Who are the people that involve in the business operations?
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362. Do you know where to find how much your organization spends on
maintenance?
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363. Who will produce or use the architecture?
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364. How do others perceive you in the team?
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365. Does it integrate with other tools?
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366. Which groups are targeted and how does architecture play a role?
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367. Why are information systems different?
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368. How to model the architecture of the business support systems?
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369. How does the philosophy of archiving apply to a collection of animation
materials?
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370. When should a process be art not science?
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371. Why should any knowledge engineer choose to discard a (presumably)
good set of knowledge models?
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372. What level of the Architecture Landscape provides a long-term
summary view of the entire enterprise?
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373. Which should your organization follow?
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374. What should the business be, in the future?
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375. What TOGAF data should be managed?
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376. How does your organization benefit from using TOGAF?
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377. How do you use product or service warranty expiration in asset
management?
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378. What are the most critical information assets in the enterprise?
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379. Are the framework initiatives tied back to the overall organizations
business strategy?
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380. Who brings the most value to the business?
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381. How did the project type relate to the framework?
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382. How do you best build and structure your IT department?
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383. What effective change management policies would you recommend to a
start-up type of organization?
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384. How is knowledge communicated within groups, and between groups
and individuals?
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385. What is the Enterprise Life Cycle?
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386. How do you govern or maintain the architecture of a system?
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387. What is the importance of architectural view to the security?
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388. How to assess compliance of projects?
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389. Can it be extended or customized and does it provide utilities to do
that?
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390. What are common anti-patterns of SOA architectural style that you
used?
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391. Are the risks fully understood, reasonable and manageable?
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392. Do you take TOGAF supporting function into account when selecting
the EA tools?
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393. Are your target architectures still right?
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394. Why should the future be any different?
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395. How familiar are you with Enterprise Architecture?
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396. Are the updated versions of applications listed?
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397. Where – are the components located?
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398. Which framework (or modified framework) does you organization use?
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399. What is wrong with a client/server architecture?
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400. What competencies and behaviors must the enterprise master?
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401. Are there different domain architectures?
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402. How well did you succeed in selecting the appropriate work products
for the project?
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403. What is the potential for commitment of funds for the initial phases of
the migration?
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404. Is that person ready to change direction and begin moving towards the
Target Architecture?
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405. Do you have an ongoing governance framework?
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406. How does your enterprise look like?
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407. How did you match technology to the business objectives?
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408. What constraint limited you from the ideal architectural alternative?
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409. Which is an objective of Phase B, Business Architecture?
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410. How much of the Enterprise is covered?
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411. What is the strategic position of your business now?
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412. What templates or tools are used to engage stakeholders in business
architecture?
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413. When will an architecture framework be used?
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414. How does mobile business create value for firms?
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415. Which architecture framework would you recommend?
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416. What methodology do you use at present for architecture?
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417. Which one best describes an Architecture Compliance Review?
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418. How can why knowledge be used more effectively?
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419. How useful do/did you find Enterprise Architecture Framework in
different perspectives?
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420. Have you ever participated in the application of an architecture
framework?
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421. Are the relationships/connections directed only on way?
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422. Which frameworks, tools and techniques do you use in your work?
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423. Who has successfully implemented the Framework?
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424. What is TOGAF risk?
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425. What is the function of an architecture compliance review?
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426. What are the essential business entities?
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427. How does TOGAF help deliver an effective it architecture?
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428. How does COBIT framework help managers, auditors and it staff?
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429. Is the metamodel of the Framework Important?
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430. Are there any technology principles that apply?
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431. What should you do with high performance, values aligned players in
your team or organization?
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432. How do system and Enterprise Architectures influence knowledge
management in software projects?
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433. Is it accessible through a web client?
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434. What is a role of Architect in the portfolio management?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score
for this section
Transfer your score to the TOGAF Index at the beginning of the SelfAssessment.
TOGAF and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:
1.0 Initiating Process Group: TOGAF
1. What is the stake of others in your TOGAF project?
2. Who supports, improves, and oversees standardized processes related to the
TOGAF projects program?
3. Do you know all the stakeholders impacted by the TOGAF project and what
needs are?
4. What is the NEXT thing to do?
5. Are the TOGAF project team and stakeholders meeting regularly and using a
meeting agenda and taking notes to accurately document what is being covered
and what happened in the weekly meetings?
6. What are the overarching issues of your organization?
7. What are the required resources?
8. How can you make your needs known?
9. Did the TOGAF project team have the right skills?
10. Realistic - are the desired results expressed in a way that the team will be
motivated and believe that the required level of involvement will be obtained?
11. When are the deliverables to be generated in each phase?
12. Were decisions made in a timely manner?
13. Where must it be done?
14. Have the stakeholders identified all individual requirements pertaining to
business process?
15. Do you know the TOGAF projects goal, purpose and objectives?
16. How well did you do?
17. What business situation is being addressed?
18. What are the constraints?
19. Were sponsors and decision makers available when needed outside regularly
scheduled meetings?
20. Just how important is your work to the overall success of the TOGAF
project?
1.1 Project Charter: TOGAF
21. Why executive support?
22. Who is the sponsor?
23. How do you manage integration?
24. If finished, on what date did it finish?
25. Success determination factors: how will the success of the TOGAF project
be determined from the customers perspective?
26. Will this replace an existing product?
27. How will you learn more about the process or system you are trying to
improve?
28. Dependent TOGAF projects: what TOGAF projects must be underway or
completed before this TOGAF project can be successful?
29. Are you building in-house ?
30. Market – identify products market, including whether it is outside of the
objective: what is the purpose of the program or TOGAF project?
31. For whom?
32. What ideas do you have for initial tests of change (PDSA cycles)?
33. What are the assigned resources?
34. What changes can you make to improve?
35. How will you know that a change is an improvement?
36. Where does all this information come from?
37. What are the deliverables?
38. When will this occur?
39. What is the most common tool for helping define the detail?
40. Does the TOGAF project need to consider any special capacity or capability
issues?
1.2 Stakeholder Register: TOGAF
41. Who wants to talk about Security?
42. Is your organization ready for change?
43. How should employers make voices heard?
44. What & Why?
45. Who are the stakeholders?
46. What are the major TOGAF project milestones requiring communications or
providing communications opportunities?
47. How much influence do they have on the TOGAF project?
48. What opportunities exist to provide communications?
49. What is the power of the stakeholder?
50. How will reports be created?
51. Who is managing stakeholder engagement?
52. How big is the gap?
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: TOGAF
53. Global influences?
54. How will the stakeholder directly benefit from the TOGAF project and how
will this affect the stakeholders motivation?
55. What could your organization improve?
56. Who influences whom?
57. Would it be fair to say that cost is a controlling criteria?
58. Alliances: with which other actors is the actor allied, how are they
interconnected?
59. Who is directly responsible for decisions on issues important to the TOGAF
project?
60. Resource providers; who can provide resources to ensure the implementation
of the TOGAF project?
61. Who determines value?
62. If you can not fix it, how do you do it differently?
63. How much do resources cost?
64. How are you predicting what future (work)loads will be?
65. Continuity, supply chain robustness?
66. Participatory approach: how will key stakeholders participate in the TOGAF
project?
67. Location and geographical?
68. Are the interests in line with the program objectives?
69. Advantages of proposition?
70. What is accountability in relation to the TOGAF project?
71. Why do you care?
72. Does your organization have bad debt or cash-flow problems?
2.0 Planning Process Group: TOGAF
73. Are the follow-up indicators relevant and do they meet the quality needed to
measure the outputs and outcomes of the TOGAF project?
74. Are the necessary foundations in place to ensure the sustainability of the
results of the TOGAF project?
75. On which process should team members spend the most time?
76. How will it affect you?
77. What are the different approaches to building the WBS?
78. In which TOGAF project management process group is the detailed TOGAF
project budget created?
79. Did you read it correctly?
80. Does it make any difference if you are successful?
81. If action is called for, what form should it take?
82. If task x starts two days late, what is the effect on the TOGAF project end
date?
83. What is a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?
84. To what extent has a PMO contributed to raising the quality of the design of
the TOGAF project?
85. Will the products created live up to the necessary quality?
86. How can you tell when you are done?
87. What is involved in TOGAF project scope management, and why is good
TOGAF project scope management so important on information technology
TOGAF projects?
88. Will you be replaced?
89. To what extent are the participating departments coordinating with each
other?
90. Explanation: is what the TOGAF project intents to solve a hard question?
2.1 Project Management Plan: TOGAF
91. What are the assumptions?
92. What would you do differently?
93. What does management expect of PMs?
94. Is there an incremental analysis/cost effectiveness analysis of proposed
mitigation features based on an approved method and using an accepted model?
95. What went right?
96. Who is the TOGAF project Manager?
97. If the TOGAF project is complex or scope is specialized, do you have
appropriate and/or qualified staff available to perform the tasks?
98. When is a TOGAF project management plan created?
99. Do there need to be organizational changes?
100. Is there anything you would now do differently on your TOGAF project
based on past experience?
101. Are cost risk analysis methods applied to develop contingencies for the
estimated total TOGAF project costs?
102. How do you organize the costs in the TOGAF project management plan?
103. Will you add a schedule and diagram?
104. Why Change?
105. Has the selected plan been formulated using cost effectiveness and
incremental analysis techniques?
106. Are comparable cost estimates used for comparing, screening and selecting
alternative plans, and has a reasonable cost estimate been developed for the
recommended plan?
107. Is the budget realistic?
2.2 Scope Management Plan: TOGAF
108. Are TOGAF project team members involved in detailed estimating and
scheduling?
109. Are decisions captured in a decisions log?
110. What should you drop in order to add something new?
111. Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure TOGAF
project success?
112. Staffing Requirements?
113. Are all key components of a Quality Assurance Plan present?
114. Is documentation created for communication with the suppliers and
Vendors?
115. What strengths do you have?
116. Has a provision been made to reassess TOGAF project risks at various
TOGAF project stages?
117. Are assumptions being identified, recorded, analyzed, qualified and closed?
118. What happens if scope changes?
119. Are the budget estimates reasonable?
120. Are meeting objectives identified for each meeting?
121. Is the quality assurance team identified?
122. Is the TOGAF project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or
rationale for why this TOGAF project is needed?
123. Time estimation – how much time will be needed?
124. How are you planning to maintain the scope baseline and how will you
manage scope changes?
125. Describe the process for rejecting the TOGAF project deliverables. What
happens to rejected deliverables?
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: TOGAF
126. Subject to change control?
127. How will requirements be managed?
128. Who will approve the requirements (and if multiple approvers, in what
order)?
129. How will the requirements become prioritized?
130. Will the contractors involved take full responsibility?
131. Who has the authority to reject TOGAF project requirements?
132. Do you know which stakeholders will participate in the requirements
effort?
133. Is the user satisfied?
134. Should you include sub-activities?
135. What is a problem?
136. Who will finally present the work or product(s) for acceptance?
137. Will you use an assessment of the TOGAF project environment as a tool to
discover risk to the requirements process?
138. Is any organizational data being used or stored?
139. Will the product release be stable and mature enough to be deployed in the
user community?
140. Is requirements work dependent on any other specific TOGAF project or
non-TOGAF project activities (e.g. funding, approvals, procurement)?
141. Is the system software (non-operating system) new to the IT TOGAF
project team?
142. In case of software development; Should you have a test for each code
module?
143. How detailed should the TOGAF project get?
144. Do you have an appropriate arrangement for meetings?
145. Are actual resource expenditures versus planned still acceptable?
2.4 Requirements Documentation: TOGAF
146. What marketing channels do you want to use: e-mail, letter or sms?
147. What are the attributes of a customer?
148. Who provides requirements?
149. What is a show stopper in the requirements?
150. Can you check system requirements?
151. How much does requirements engineering cost?
152. Is the requirement realistically testable?
153. Are all functions required by the customer included?
154. How to document system requirements?
155. How can you document system requirements?
156. How do you get the user to tell you what they want?
157. What variations exist for a process?
158. The problem with gathering requirements is right there in the word
gathering. What images does it conjure?
159. Are there legal issues?
160. Is new technology needed?
161. Do technical resources exist?
162. Where do you define what is a customer, what are the attributes of
customer?
163. Are there any requirements conflicts?
164. Do your constraints stand?
165. Completeness. are all functions required by the customer included?
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: TOGAF
166. How small is small enough?
167. What is the WBS?
168. Is there a requirements traceability process in place?
169. Why use a WBS?
170. What percentage of TOGAF projects are producing traceability matrices
between requirements and other work products?
171. Will you use a Requirements Traceability Matrix?
172. Describe the process for approving requirements so they can be added to
the traceability matrix and TOGAF project work can be performed. Will the
TOGAF project requirements become approved in writing?
173. How do you manage scope?
174. How will it affect the stakeholders personally in career?
175. Why do you manage scope?
176. Do you have a clear understanding of all subcontracts in place?
177. What are the chronologies, contingencies, consequences, criteria?
2.6 Project Scope Statement: TOGAF
178. Will the risk status be reported to management on a regular and frequent
basis?
179. Is this process communicated to the customer and team members?
180. Are the input requirements from the team members clearly documented and
communicated?
181. What is change?
182. Is the plan for TOGAF project resources adequate?
183. If there are vendors, have they signed off on the TOGAF project Plan?
184. What are the defined meeting materials?
185. Has everyone approved the TOGAF projects scope statement?
186. Have you been able to easily identify success criteria and create objective
measurements for each of the TOGAF project scopes goal statements?
187. Will all tasks resulting from issues be entered into the TOGAF project Plan
and tracked through the plan?
188. Why do you need to manage scope?
189. Will you need a statement of work?
190. Will tasks be marked complete only after QA has been successfully
completed?
191. Relevant - ask yourself can you get there; why are you doing this TOGAF
project?
192. Did your TOGAF project ask for this?
193. Have the reports to be produced, distributed, and filed been defined?
194. Were potential customers involved early in the planning process?
195. Is the TOGAF project manager qualified and experienced in TOGAF
project management?
196. Elements of scope management that deal with concept development ?
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: TOGAF
197. Do documented requirements exist for all critical components and areas,
including technical, business, interfaces, performance, security and conversion
requirements?
198. Have all necessary approvals been obtained?
199. What worked well?
200. Violation trace: why ?
201. Does the traceability documentation describe the tool and/or mechanism to
be used to capture traceability throughout the life cycle?
202. Was the document/deliverable developed per the appropriate or required
standards (for example, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
standards)?
203. Does a specific action and/or state that is known to violate security policy
occur?
204. Should factors be unpredictable over time?
205. Contradictory information between document sections?
206. Is the definition of the TOGAF project scope clear; what needs to be
accomplished?
207. Security analysis has access to information that is sanitized?
208. Have all involved stakeholders and work groups committed to the TOGAF
project?
209. Is there adequate stakeholder participation for the vetting of requirements
definition, changes and management?
210. Has a TOGAF project Communications Plan been developed?
211. Is the steering committee active in TOGAF project oversight?
212. Is there documentation of system capability requirements, data
requirements, environment requirements, security requirements, and computer
and hardware requirements?
213. When can log be discarded?
214. Is there a Steering Committee in place?
215. Are there standards for code development?
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: TOGAF
216. Why is it useful?
217. How many levels?
218. What is the probability of completing the TOGAF project in less that xx
days?
219. When does it have to be done?
220. How big is a work-package?
221. Is it a change in scope?
222. Can you make it?
223. What has to be done?
224. Do you need another level?
225. Is it still viable?
226. Where does it take place?
227. Who has to do it?
228. When would you develop a Work Breakdown Structure?
229. When do you stop?
230. How far down?
2.9 WBS Dictionary: TOGAF
231. Are data elements (BCWS, BCWP, and ACWP) progressively summarized
from the detail level to the contract level through the CWBS?
232. Where learning is used in developing underlying budgets is there a direct
relationship between anticipated learning and time phased budgets?
233. Are the procedures for identifying indirect costs to incurring organizations,
indirect cost pools, and allocating the costs from the pools to the contracts
formally documented?
234. Are the bases and rates for allocating costs from each indirect pool to
commercial work consistent with the already stated used to allocate
corresponding costs to Government contracts?
235. Is all contract work included in the CWBS?
236. Are there procedures for monitoring action items and corrective actions to
the point of resolution and are corresponding procedures being followed?
237. Are data elements reconcilable between internal summary reports and
reports forwarded to us?
238. Is authorization of budgets in excess of the contract budget base controlled
formally and done with the full knowledge and recognition of the procuring
activity?
239. The wbs is developed as part of a joint planning session. and how do you
know that youhave done this right?
240. Knowledgeable TOGAF projections of future performance?
241. Do the lines of authority for incurring indirect costs correspond to the lines
of responsibility for management control of the same components of costs?
242. Is future work which cannot be planned in detail subdivided to the extent
practicable for budgeting and scheduling purposes?
243. The anticipated business volume?
244. Are data elements summarized through the functional organizational
structure for progressively higher levels of management?
245. Are work packages assigned to performing organizations?
246. What is wrong with this TOGAF project?
247. The total budget for the contract (including estimates for authorized and
unpriced work)?
248. What are you counting on?
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: TOGAF
249. Are the constraints or deadlines associated with the task accurate?
250. Does a documented TOGAF project organizational policy & plan (i.e.
governance model) exist?
251. Goal: is the schedule feasible and at what cost?
252. Does the schedule have reasonable float?
253. Has your organization readiness assessment been conducted?
254. Are the people assigned to the TOGAF project sufficiently qualified?
255. Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the TOGAF project?
256. Is there a set of procedures defining the scope, procedures, and deliverables
defining quality control?
257. Are trade-offs between accepting the risk and mitigating the risk identified?
258. Will the tools selected accomplish the scheduling needs?
259. Is the development plan and/or process documented?
260. Is a process for scheduling and reporting defined, including forms and
formats?
261. Why conduct schedule analysis?
262. Are there any activities or deliverables being added or gold-plated that
could be dropped or scaled back without falling short of the original
requirement?
263. Does the ims reflect accurate current status and credible start/finish
forecasts for all to-go tasks and milestones?
264. Has the TOGAF project scope been baselined?
265. Have all team members been part of identifying risks?
266. After initial schedule development, will the schedule be reviewed and
validated by the TOGAF project team?
2.11 Activity List: TOGAF
267. What went wrong?
268. Where will it be performed?
269. In what sequence?
270. Is infrastructure setup part of your TOGAF project?
271. What is your organizations history in doing similar activities?
272. How much slack is available in the TOGAF project?
273. For other activities, how much delay can be tolerated?
274. Can you determine the activity that must finish, before this activity can
start?
275. What is the probability the TOGAF project can be completed in xx weeks?
276. What are the critical bottleneck activities?
277. How should ongoing costs be monitored to try to keep the TOGAF project
within budget?
278. What went well?
279. How do you determine the late start (LS) for each activity?
280. What did not go as well?
281. How detailed should a TOGAF project get?
282. What is the total time required to complete the TOGAF project if no delays
occur?
283. How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this TOGAF project?
284. How will it be performed?
2.12 Activity Attributes: TOGAF
285. Can more resources be added?
286. Resources to accomplish the work?
287. Does your organization of the data change its meaning?
288. Are the required resources available?
289. How many days do you need to complete the work scope with a limit of X
number of resources?
290. Has management defined a definite timeframe for the turnaround or
TOGAF project window?
291. How many resources do you need to complete the work scope within a limit
of X number of days?
292. How else could the items be grouped?
293. Do you feel very comfortable with your prediction?
294. Activity: what is Missing?
295. Is there a trend during the year?
296. What activity do you think you should spend the most time on?
297. Were there other ways you could have organized the data to achieve similar
results?
298. How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this TOGAF project?
299. Time for overtime?
300. What conclusions/generalizations can you draw from this?
301. What is missing?
2.13 Milestone List: TOGAF
302. New USPs?
303. What is the market for your technology, product or service?
304. Milestone pages should display the UserID of the person who added the
milestone. Does a report or query exist that provides this audit information?
305. Who will manage the TOGAF project on a day-to-day basis?
306. Are the required resources available or need to be acquired?
307. Political effects?
308. How late can the activity finish?
309. Obstacles faced?
310. Marketing - reach, distribution, awareness?
311. Gaps in capabilities?
312. How do you manage time?
313. Calculate how long can activity be delayed?
314. What are your competitors vulnerabilities?
315. Sustaining internal capabilities?
316. Identify critical paths (one or more) and which activities are on the critical
path?
317. How will the milestone be verified?
318. Can you derive how soon can the whole TOGAF project finish?
319. Level of the Innovation?
2.14 Network Diagram: TOGAF
320. What can be done concurrently?
321. Where do schedules come from?
322. What controls the start and finish of a job?
323. How confident can you be in your milestone dates and the delivery date?
324. What is the lowest cost to complete this TOGAF project in xx weeks?
325. What is the probability of completing the TOGAF project in less that xx
days?
326. Are the gantt chart and/or network diagram updated periodically and used
to assess the overall TOGAF project timetable?
327. If a current contract exists, can you provide the vendor name, contract start,
and contract expiration date?
328. What are the Major Administrative Issues?
329. What activities must follow this activity?
330. If x is long, what would be the completion time if you break x into two
parallel parts of y weeks and z weeks?
331. What to do and When?
332. What activity must be completed immediately before this activity can start?
333. What are the tools?
334. What must be completed before an activity can be started?
335. What job or jobs could run concurrently?
336. What job or jobs follow it?
337. Are you on time?
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: TOGAF
338. What is the Work Plan Standard?
339. How do you handle petty cash?
340. What are constraints that you might find during the Human Resource
Planning process?
341. Are there unresolved issues that need to be addressed?
342. Is there anything planned that does not need to be here?
343. Which logical relationship does the PDM use most often?
344. How many signatures do you require on a check and does this match what
is in your policy and procedures?
345. Do you use tools like decomposition and rolling-wave planning to produce
the activity list and other outputs?
346. Organizational Applicability?
347. Why do you do that?
348. When does monitoring begin?
349. Other support in specific areas?
350. Anything else?
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: TOGAF
351. What is the number one predictor of a groups productivity?
352. Who is allowed to perform which functions?
353. How can this help you with team building?
354. Why do you do it?
355. What defines a successful TOGAF project?
356. What are the requirements for resource data?
357. Why is this important?
358. What is the purpose of assigning and documenting responsibility?
359. Changes based on input from stakeholders?
360. What is the primary purpose of the human resource plan?
361. Who is allowed to see what data about which resources?
362. Goals for the TOGAF project. What is each stakeholders desired outcome
for the TOGAF project?
363. When do they need the information?
364. What defines a successful TOGAF project?
365. What is the difference between % Complete and % work?
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: TOGAF
366. What are the main parts of a scope statement?
367. What type of information goes in a quality assurance plan?
368. Is the work performed reviewed against contractual objectives?
369. Are TOGAF project results verified and TOGAF project documents
archived?
370. What do corresponding sources say about TOGAF project management?
371. Account for the four frames of organizations. How can they help TOGAF
project managers understand your organizational context for TOGAF projects?
372. Consider the common sources of risk on information technology TOGAF
projects and suggestions for managing them. Which suggestions do you find
most useful?
373. Why is there a new or renewed interest in the field of TOGAF project
management?
374. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?
375. Is a contract change control system defined to manage changes to contract
terms and conditions?
376. Are TOGAF project records organized, maintained, and assessable by
TOGAF project team members?
377. Why do you think schedule issues often cause the most conflicts on
TOGAF projects?
378. Do an internet search on earning pmp certification. be sure to search for
yahoo groups related to this topic. what are the options you found to help people
prepare for the exam?
379. Is corrective action taken to bring TOGAF project performance into line
with the TOGAF project plan?
380. Do stakeholders follow a procedure for formally accepting the TOGAF
project scope?
381. Are activity dependencies documented?
382. Are TOGAF project management tools and techniques consistently applied
throughout all TOGAF projects?
383. What are the TOGAF project management deliverables of each process
group?
384. Is evaluation criteria defined to rate proposals?
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: TOGAF
385. Do any colleagues have experience with your organization and/or RFPs?
386. What is your role?
387. Why estimate costs?
388. Science = process: remember the scientific method?
389. What is the total time required to complete the TOGAF project if no delays
occur?
390. Is the TOGAF project responsive to community need?
391. What is cost and TOGAF project cost management?
392. What is an Average TOGAF project?
393. What utility impacts are there?
394. When does your organization expect to be able to complete it?
395. Define the work as completely as possible. What work will be included in
the TOGAF project?
396. Is a construction detail attached (to aid in explanation)?
397. Value pocket identification & quantification what are value pockets?
398. How should ongoing costs be monitored to try to keep the TOGAF project
within budget?
399. When do the individual activities need to start and finish?
400. Why estimate time and cost?
401. What info is needed?
2.19 Project Schedule: TOGAF
402. Is TOGAF project work proceeding in accordance with the original TOGAF
project schedule?
403. How closely did the initial TOGAF project Schedule compare with the
actual schedule?
404. Did the TOGAF project come in on schedule?
405. What is the purpose of a TOGAF project schedule?
406. Month TOGAF project take?
407. What is TOGAF project management?
408. Did the final product meet or exceed user expectations?
409. Is there a Schedule Management Plan that establishes the criteria and
activities for developing, monitoring and controlling the TOGAF project
schedule?
410. How do you manage TOGAF project Risk?
411. Why time management?
412. How can you address that situation?
413. Verify that the update is accurate. Are all remaining durations correct?
414. Why or why not?
415. Are the original TOGAF project schedule and budget realistic?
416. How do you know that youhave done this right?
417. Have all TOGAF project delays been adequately accounted for,
communicated to all stakeholders and adjustments made in overall TOGAF
project schedule?
418. Your best shot for providing estimations how complex/how much work
does the activity require?
419. How can you fix it?
420. Eliminate unnecessary activities. Are there activities that came from a
template or previous TOGAF project that are not applicable on this phase of this
TOGAF project?
2.20 Cost Management Plan: TOGAF
421. Pareto diagrams, statistical sampling, flow charting or trend analysis used
quality monitoring?
422. Owner, contractor, and subcontractors?
423. Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?
424. Are risk triggers captured?
425. Sensitivity analysis?
426. Who will prepare the cost estimates?
427. Risk Analysis?
428. TOGAF project definition & scope?
429. Cost tracking and performance analysis – How will cost tracking and
performance analysis be accomplished?
430. How relevant is this attribute to this TOGAF project or audit?
431. Resources – how will human resources be scheduled during each phase of
the TOGAF project?
432. Weve met your goals?
433. Are action items captured and managed?
434. What are the TOGAF project objectives?
435. Does the schedule include TOGAF project management time and change
request analysis time?
436. Are TOGAF project team members committed fulltime?
437. Were TOGAF project team members involved in the development of
activity & task decomposition?
438. Are actuals compared against estimates to analyze and correct variances?
439. Are the TOGAF project plans updated on a frequent basis?
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: TOGAF
440. Who determines when the contractor is paid?
441. Does the estimator have experience?
442. How and when do you enter into TOGAF project Procurement
Management?
443. What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the TOGAF
project?
444. Scope statement only direct or indirect costs as well?
445. What makes a good expected result statement?
446. Based on your TOGAF project communication management plan, what
worked well?
447. Measurable - are the targets measurable?
448. What areas were overlooked on this TOGAF project?
449. Are data needed on characteristics of care?
450. Which contract type places the most risk on the seller?
451. How many activities should you have?
452. What skill level is required to do the job?
453. Can you delete activities or make them inactive?
454. What is the activity recast of the budget?
455. How difficult will it be to do specific tasks on the TOGAF project?
456. Did the consultant work with local staff to develop local capacity?
457. What is TOGAF project cost management?
458. How do you allocate indirect costs to activities?
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: TOGAF
459. What will others want?
460. What happens to any remaining funds not used?
461. How will the results be shared and to whom?
462. What can be included?
463. What is the purpose of estimating?
464. Will the TOGAF project collaborate with the local community and leverage
resources?
465. Who is best positioned to know and assist in identifying corresponding
factors?
466. What costs are to be estimated?
467. Is it feasible to establish a control group arrangement?
468. Identify the timeframe necessary to monitor progress and collect data to
determine how the selected measure has changed?
469. Is the TOGAF project responsive to community need?
470. What is the estimated labor cost today based upon this information?
471. Does the TOGAF project provide innovative ways for stakeholders to
overcome obstacles or deliver better outcomes?
472. Can a trend be established from historical performance data on the selected
measure and are the criteria for using trend analysis or forecasting methods met?
473. What additional TOGAF project(s) could be initiated as a result of this
TOGAF project?
474. Ask: are others positioned to know, are others credible, and will others
cooperate?
2.23 Cost Baseline: TOGAF
475. How fast?
476. Will the TOGAF project fail if the change request is not executed?
477. For what purpose ?
478. What weaknesses do you have?
479. How do you manage cost?
480. How likely is it to go wrong?
481. Review your risk triggers -have your risks changed?
482. When should cost estimates be developed?
483. How will cost estimates be used?
484. Has the TOGAF project documentation been archived or otherwise
disposed as described in the TOGAF project communication plan?
485. At which frequency ?
486. Does it impact schedule, cost, quality?
487. Is there anything unique in this TOGAF projects scope statement that will
affect resources?
488. Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
489. What can go wrong?
490. Has training and knowledge transfer of the operations organization been
completed?
491. Does the suggested change request represent a desired enhancement to the
products functionality?
492. Why do you manage cost?
2.24 Quality Management Plan: TOGAF
493. Are there nonconformance issues?
494. Diagrams and tables to account for complex concepts and increase overall
readability?
495. Are qmps good forever?
496. Is the steering committee active in TOGAF project oversight?
497. What are your organizations current levels and trends for the already stated
measures related to customer satisfaction/ dissatisfaction and product/service
performance?
498. Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure TOGAF
project success?
499. How do you manage quality?
500. How is staff trained?
501. Are there trends or hot spots?
502. How are changes approved?
503. What are your organizations current levels and trends for the already stated
measures related to financial and marketplace performance?
504. Were there any deficiencies / issues in prior years self-assessment?
505. How effectively was the Quality Management Plan applied during TOGAF
project Execution?
506. Are decisions/actions based on data collected?
507. Written by multiple authors and in multiple writing styles?
508. How will you know that a change is actually an improvement?
509. How do senior leaders create an environment that encourages learning and
innovation?
510. What does it do for you (or to me)?
511. Is a component/condition present?
512. How do you ensure that your sampling methods and procedures meet your
data quality objectives?
2.25 Quality Metrics: TOGAF
513. What is the CMS Benchmark?
514. Is there a set of procedures to capture, analyze and act on quality metrics?
515. Was the overall quality better or worse than previous products?
516. What documentation is required?
517. What happens if you get an abnormal result?
518. How does one achieve stability?
519. Where is quality now?
520. Has it met internal or external standards?
521. Have alternatives been defined in the event that failure occurs?
522. How are requirements conflicts resolved?
523. If the defect rate during testing is substantially higher than that of the
previous release (or a similar product), then ask: Did you plan for and actually
improve testing effectiveness?
524. When will the Final Guidance will be issued?
525. Which report did you use to create the data you are submitting?
526. What makes a visualization memorable?
527. What forces exist that would cause them to change?
528. What method of measurement do you use?
529. Do the operators focus on determining; is there anything you need to worry
about?
530. Has trace of defects been initiated?
531. What is the benchmark?
2.26 Process Improvement Plan: TOGAF
532. Does explicit definition of the measures exist?
533. Are you following the quality standards?
534. Why quality management?
535. Have the frequency of collection and the points in the process where
measurements will be made been determined?
536. What is quality and how will you ensure it?
537. How do you measure?
538. Has a process guide to collect the data been developed?
539. What personnel are the coaches for your initiative?
540. Are you making progress on the goals?
541. Are you making progress on the improvement framework?
542. Has the time line required to move measurement results from the points of
collection to databases or users been established?
543. Modeling current processes is great, and will you ever see a return on that
investment?
544. Where do you want to be?
545. What personnel are the sponsors for that initiative?
546. What is the test-cycle concept?
547. Are you making progress on your improvement plan?
548. What personnel are the change agents for your initiative?
549. To elicit goal statements, do you ask a question such as, What do you want
to achieve?
2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix: TOGAF
550. Not any rs, as, or cs: if an identified role is only informed, should others be
eliminated from the matrix?
551. Will too many Communicating responsibilities tangle the TOGAF project
in unnecessary communications?
552. Are meaningful indicators identified for use in measuring the status of cost
and schedule performance?
553. The already stated responsible for overhead performance control of related
costs?
554. Contract line items and end items?
555. Which resource planning tool provides information on resource
responsibility and accountability?
556. Undistributed budgets, if any?
557. Does the contractor use objective results, design reviews and tests to trace
schedule performance?
558. Does the accounting system provide a basis for auditing records of direct
costs chargeable to the contract?
559. Who is the TOGAF project Manager?
560. Are too many reports done in writing instead of verbally?
561. What are the known stakeholder requirements?
562. Do all the identified groups or people really need to be consulted?
563. What tool can show you individual and group allocations?
564. Is the entire contract planned in time-phased control accounts to the extent
practicable?
565. Identify potential or actual budget-based and time-based schedule
variances?
2.28 Roles and Responsibilities: TOGAF
566. Who is responsible for implementation activities and where will the
functions, roles and responsibilities be defined?
567. Who is responsible for each task?
568. Is feedback clearly communicated and non-judgmental?
569. What areas of supervision are challenging for you?
570. What should you highlight for improvement?
571. Are TOGAF project team roles and responsibilities identified and
documented?
572. Required skills, knowledge, experience?
573. Once the responsibilities are defined for the TOGAF project, have the
deliverables, roles and responsibilities been clearly communicated to every
participant?
574. Who is involved?
575. Do the values and practices inherent in the culture of your organization
foster or hinder the process?
576. What should you do now to ensure that you are meeting all expectations of
your current position?
577. How is your work-life balance?
578. What should you do now to prepare yourself for a promotion, increased
responsibilities or a different job?
579. Attainable / achievable: the goal is attainable; can you actually accomplish
the goal?
580. Implementation of actions: Who are the responsible units?
581. Influence: what areas of organizational decision making are you able to
influence when you do not have authority to make the final decision?
582. Once the responsibilities are defined for the TOGAF project, have the
deliverables, roles and responsibilities been clearly communicated to every
participant?
583. Is the data complete?
584. Does the team have access to and ability to use data analysis tools?
585. Authority: what areas/TOGAF projects in your work do you have the
authority to decide upon and act on the already stated decisions?
2.29 Human Resource Management Plan: TOGAF
586. Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or
manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
587. Is the manpower level sufficient to meet the future business requirements?
588. Were the budget estimates reasonable?
589. Is your organization human?
590. How are superior performers differentiated from average performers?
591. Are key risk mitigation strategies added to the TOGAF project schedule?
592. TOGAF project Objectives?
593. Are non-critical path items updated and agreed upon with the teams?
594. How can below standard performers be guided/developed to upgrade
performance?
595. Was your organizations estimating methodology being used and followed?
596. What commitments have been made?
597. Identify who is needed on the core TOGAF project team to complete
TOGAF project deliverables and achieve its goals and objectives. What skills,
knowledge and experiences are required?
598. Is the TOGAF project schedule available for all TOGAF project team
members to review?
599. Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the TOGAF project?
600. Are the payment terms being followed?
601. How well does your organization communicate?
602. Is an industry recognized support tool(s) being used for TOGAF project
scheduling & tracking?
603. Have TOGAF project management standards and procedures been
identified / established and documented?
2.30 Communications Management Plan: TOGAF
604. Who is responsible?
605. How is this initiative related to other portfolios, programs, or TOGAF
projects?
606. Will messages be directly related to the release strategy or phases of the
TOGAF project?
607. Which stakeholders are thought leaders, influences, or early adopters?
608. Are others needed?
609. Who is involved as you identify stakeholders?
610. Why is stakeholder engagement important?
611. How do you manage communications?
612. Who to share with?
613. How often do you engage with stakeholders?
614. Who will use or be affected by the result of a TOGAF project?
615. What does the stakeholder need from the team?
616. Are there common objectives between the team and the stakeholder?
617. What steps can you take for a positive relationship?
618. What is the stakeholders level of authority?
619. Do you feel more overwhelmed by stakeholders?
620. Which stakeholders can influence others?
621. Is the stakeholder role recognized by your organization?
622. Do you ask; can you recommend others for you to talk with about this
initiative?
2.31 Risk Management Plan: TOGAF
623. Which risks should get the attention?
624. Are the metrics meaningful and useful?
625. My TOGAF project leader has suddenly left your organization, what do you
do?
626. Are the reports useful and easy to read?
627. How risk averse are you?
628. Do you train all developers in the process?
629. Litigation – what is the probability that lawsuits will cause problems or
delays in the TOGAF project?
630. Methodology: how will risk management be performed on this TOGAF
project?
631. Are enough people available?
632. Risks should be identified during which phase of TOGAF project
management life cycle?
633. Degree of confidence in estimated size estimate?
634. Market risk: will the new product be useful to your organization or
marketable to others?
635. How are risk analvsis and prioritization performed?
636. Which is an input to the risk management process?
637. Are certain activities taking a long time to complete?
638. Are there risks to human health or the environment that need to be
controlled or mitigated?
639. What did not work so well?
640. Minimize cost and financial risk?
641. Who should be notified of the occurrence of each of the indicators?
642. Are you working on the right risks?
2.32 Risk Register: TOGAF
643. Does the evidence highlight any areas to advance opportunities or foster
good relations. If yes what steps will be taken?
644. How well are risks controlled?
645. Contingency actions - planned actions to reduce the immediate seriousness
of the risk when it does occur. What should you do when?
646. Are there any knock-on effects/impact on any of the other areas?
647. Have other controls and solutions been implemented in other services
which could be applied as an alternative to additional funding?
648. What is a Risk?
649. What is the appropriate level of risk management for this TOGAF project?
650. What may happen or not go according to plan?
651. How are risks identified?
652. Are there other alternative controls that could be implemented?
653. What are your key risks/show istoppers and what is being done to manage
them?
654. What can be done about it?
655. What are you going to do to limit the TOGAF projects risk exposure due to
the identified risks?
656. When is it going to be done?
657. Who needs to know about this?
658. Do you require further engagement?
659. Severity Prediction?
660. How is a Community Risk Register created?
661. Market risk -will the new service or product be useful to your organization
or marketable to others?
2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment: TOGAF
662. What risks are necessary to achieve success?
663. What can you do to minimize the impact if it does?
664. What new technologies are being explored in the same area?
665. Costs associated with late delivery or a defective product?
666. Are the risk data timely and relevant?
667. What will be the environmental impact of the TOGAF project?
668. Which role do you have in the TOGAF project?
669. Are there new risks that mitigation strategies might introduce?
670. Is a software TOGAF project management tool available?
671. What is the likelihood?
672. What are your data sources?
673. Are the software tools integrated with each other?
674. Is there additional information that would make you more confident about
your analysis?
675. Are tool mentors available?
676. How is risk handled within this TOGAF project organization?
677. What risks does your organization have if the TOGAF projects fail to meet
deadline?
678. Has something like this been done before?
679. What significant shift will occur in governmental policies, laws, and
regulations pertaining to specific industries?
680. My TOGAF project leader has suddenly left your organization, what do you
do?
2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix: TOGAF
681. Do others match with the clients requirement?
682. The customer requests a change to the TOGAF project that would increase
the TOGAF project risk. Which should you do before ass the others?
683. Have staff received necessary training?
684. Are there alternative opinions/solutions/processes you should explore?
685. Is a software TOGAF project management tool available?
686. Can the risk be avoided by choosing a different alternative?
687. Are some people working on multiple TOGAF projects?
688. Is the delay in one subTOGAF project going to affect another?
689. Brain storm – mind maps, what if?
690. How likely is the current plan to come in on schedule or on budget?
691. During which risk management process is a determination to transfer a risk
made?
692. How are the local factors going to affect the absorption?
693. Do you manage the process through use of metrics?
694. What has the TOGAF project manager forgotten to do?
695. Are you on schedule?
696. Workarounds are determined during which risk management process?
697. Are formal technical reviews part of this process?
698. Risk categorization -which of your categories has more risk than others?
2.35 Risk Data Sheet: TOGAF
699. What actions can be taken to eliminate or remove risk?
700. What is the environment within which you operate (social trends,
economic, community values, broad based participation, national directions
etc.)?
701. What are you here for (Mission)?
702. What are the main opportunities available to you that you should grab while
you can?
703. How can hazards be reduced?
704. What is the chance that it will happen?
705. Type of risk identified?
706. What are the main threats to your existence?
707. Will revised controls lead to tolerable risk levels?
708. What are your core values?
709. Is the data sufficiently specified in terms of the type of failure being
analyzed, and its frequency or probability?
710. Whom do you serve (customers)?
711. What was measured?
712. What will be the consequences if it happens?
713. Has a sensitivity analysis been carried out?
714. During work activities could hazards exist?
715. What can you do?
716. How do you handle product safely?
717. What can happen?
718. What were the Causes that contributed?
2.36 Procurement Management Plan: TOGAF
719. Are TOGAF project team members involved in detailed estimating and
scheduling?
720. How and when do you enter into TOGAF project Procurement
Management?
721. Has TOGAF project success criteria been defined?
722. Have activity relationships and interdependencies within tasks been
adequately identified?
723. Is the TOGAF project sponsor clearly communicating the business case or
rationale for why this TOGAF project is needed?
724. Does the resource management plan include a personnel development plan?
725. Similar TOGAF projects?
726. Are procurement deliverables arriving on time and to specification?
727. Is there an issues management plan in place?
728. Is the current scope of the TOGAF project substantially different than that
originally defined?
729. Has a provision been made to reassess TOGAF project risks at various
TOGAF project stages?
730. Have stakeholder accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
731. Are the appropriate IT resources adequate to meet planned commitments?
732. Has a TOGAF project Communications Plan been developed?
733. Is there an on-going process in place to monitor TOGAF project risks?
734. Were TOGAF project team members involved in the development of
activity & task decomposition?
2.37 Source Selection Criteria: TOGAF
735. Can you identify proposed teaming partners and/or subcontractors and
consider the nature and extent of proposed involvement in satisfying the TOGAF
project requirements?
736. Are resultant proposal revisions allowed?
737. What aspects should the contracting officer brief the TOGAF project on
prior to evaluation of proposals?
738. What are the requirements for publicizing a RFP?
739. What should a DRFP include?
740. How should the solicitation aspects regarding past performance be
structured?
741. What will you use to capture evaluation and subsequent documentation?
742. What is the last item a TOGAF project manager must do to finalize TOGAF
project close-out?
743. What should be the contracting officers strategy?
744. Is there collaboration among your evaluators?
745. What past performance information should be requested?
746. How should oral presentations be evaluated?
747. Are there any common areas of weaknesses or deficiencies in the proposals
in the competitive range?
748. How organization are proposed quotes/prices?
749. Do proposed hours support content and schedule?
750. When should debriefings be held and how should they be scheduled?
751. Have all evaluators been trained?
752. Comparison of each offers prices to the estimated prices -are there
significant differences?
753. What risks were identified in the proposals?
2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan: TOGAF
754. What process was used to identify risks to the TOGAF projects success?
755. Were TOGAF project team members involved in detailed estimating and
scheduling?
756. Is the assigned TOGAF project manager a PMP (Certified TOGAF project
manager) and experienced?
757. What procedures will be utilised to ensure effective monitoring of TOGAF
project progress?
758. How accurate and complete is the information?
759. What training requirements are there based upon the required skills and
resources?
760. Is the schedule updated on a periodic basis?
761. How are new requirements or changes to requirements identified?
762. Are multiple estimation methods being employed?
763. Are adequate resources provided for the quality assurance function?
764. Describe the process that will be used to design, develop, review, accept,
distribute and change outputs. Will all outputs delivered by the TOGAF project
follow the same process?
765. Have TOGAF project management standards and procedures been
established and documented?
766. Alignment to strategic goals & objectives?
767. What inspection and testing is to be performed?
768. Are risk oriented checklists used during risk identification?
769. Who is responsible for arranging and managing the review(s)?
770. Have the key functions and capabilities been defined and assigned to each
release or iteration?
771. Are tasks tracked by hours?
2.39 Change Management Plan: TOGAF
772. Has a training need analysis been carried out?
773. When developing your communication plan do you address : When should
the given message be communicated?
774. Who is the target audience of the piece of information?
775. What will be the preferred method of delivery?
776. Is there a need for new relationships to be built?
777. What are the specific target groups/audiences that will be impacted by this
change?
778. What tasks are needed?
779. Why is it important?
780. Will the culture embrace or reject this change?
781. What are the essentials of the message?
782. Why is the initiative is being undertaken - What are the business drivers?
783. Who will be the change levers?
784. Who will do the training?
785. What skills, education, knowledge, or work experiences should the
resources have for each identified competency?
786. Do you need a new organization structure?
787. Is it the same for each of the business units?
788. Who in the business it includes?
789. Do there need to be new channels developed?
790. Has an information & communications plan been developed?
791. What is the worst thing that can happen if you communicate information?
3.0 Executing Process Group: TOGAF
792. What are deliverables of your TOGAF project?
793. What areas were overlooked on this TOGAF project?
794. Do your results resemble a normal distribution?
795. Are escalated issues resolved promptly?
796. Have operating capacities been created and/or reinforced in partners?
797. What are the main parts of the scope statement?
798. What TOGAF projects and services are in the portfolio of your
organization?
799. When do you share the scorecard with managers?
800. Why do you need a good WBS to use TOGAF project management
software?
801. Will additional funds be needed for hardware or software?
802. How can your organization use a weighted decision matrix to evaluate
proposals as part of source selection?
803. Is activity definition the first process involved in TOGAF project time
management?
804. If a risk event occurs, what will you do?
805. How will professionals learn what is expected from them what the
deliverables are?
806. How can software assist in TOGAF project communications?
807. What are deliverables of your TOGAF project?
808. What were things that you need to improve?
809. How will you avoid scope creep?
3.1 Team Member Status Report: TOGAF
810. Are the products of your organizations TOGAF projects meeting customers
objectives?
811. Why is it to be done?
812. How will resource planning be done?
813. Does your organization have the means (staff, money, contract, etc.) to
produce or to acquire the product, good, or service?
814. How does this product, good, or service meet the needs of the TOGAF
project and your organization as a whole?
815. Does the product, good, or service already exist within your organization?
816. What specific interest groups do you have in place?
817. Does every department have to have a TOGAF project Manager on staff?
818. Will the staff do training or is that done by a third party?
819. When a teams productivity and success depend on collaboration and the
efficient flow of information, what generally fails them?
820. Are the attitudes of staff regarding TOGAF project work improving?
821. Do you have an Enterprise TOGAF project Management Office (EPMO)?
822. Is there evidence that staff is taking a more professional approach toward
management of your organizations TOGAF projects?
823. Are your organizations TOGAF projects more successful over time?
824. How it is to be done?
825. How can you make it practical?
826. What is to be done?
827. The problem with Reward & Recognition Programs is that the truly
deserving people all too often get left out. How can you make it practical?
828. How much risk is involved?
3.2 Change Request: TOGAF
829. What should be regulated in a change control operating instruction?
830. How many times must the change be modified or presented to the change
control board before it is approved?
831. Who is responsible to authorize changes?
832. Who is communicating the change?
833. What is the relationship between requirements attributes and reliability?
834. Customer acceptance plan how will the customer verify the change has
been implemented successfully?
835. Can you answer what happened, who did it, when did it happen, and what
else will be affected?
836. When to submit a change request?
837. Who needs to approve change requests?
838. Will there be a change request form in use?
839. Have all related configuration items been properly updated?
840. Does the schedule include TOGAF project management time and change
request analysis time?
841. How can you ensure that changes have been made properly?
842. Has your address changed?
843. What is the purpose of change control?
844. Are you implementing itil processes?
845. Why were your requested changes rejected or not made?
846. How many lines of code must be changed to implement the change?
847. How shall the implementation of changes be recorded?
3.3 Change Log: TOGAF
848. Does the suggested change request seem to represent a necessary
enhancement to the product?
849. Is the change request open, closed or pending?
850. How does this relate to the standards developed for specific business
processes?
851. Do the described changes impact on the integrity or security of the system?
852. How does this change affect scope?
853. Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?
854. Is this a mandatory replacement?
855. Is the change backward compatible without limitations?
856. How does this change affect the timeline of the schedule?
857. Will the TOGAF project fail if the change request is not executed?
858. Is the requested change request a result of changes in other TOGAF
project(s)?
859. When was the request approved?
860. Where do changes come from?
861. Is the change request within TOGAF project scope?
862. Is the submitted change a new change or a modification of a previously
approved change?
863. When was the request submitted?
864. Who initiated the change request?
3.4 Decision Log: TOGAF
865. Who is the decisionmaker?
866. How do you define success?
867. What are the cost implications?
868. It becomes critical to track and periodically revisit both operational
effectiveness; Are you noticing all that you need to, and are you interpreting
what you see effectively?
869. How does provision of information, both in terms of content and
presentation, influence acceptance of alternative strategies?
870. Meeting purpose; why does this team meet?
871. Does anything need to be adjusted?
872. Who will be given a copy of this document and where will it be kept?
873. What is the average size of your matters in an applicable measurement?
874. What makes you different or better than others companies selling the same
thing?
875. What alternatives/risks were considered?
876. With whom was the decision shared or considered?
877. Linked to original objective?
878. Which variables make a critical difference?
879. What was the rationale for the decision?
880. Is your opponent open to a non-traditional workflow, or will it likely
challenge anything you do?
881. Adversarial environment. is your opponent open to a non-traditional
workflow, or will it likely challenge anything you do?
882. Behaviors; what are guidelines that the team has identified that will assist
them with getting the most out of team meetings?
883. Decision-making process; how will the team make decisions?
884. How do you know when you are achieving it?
3.5 Quality Audit: TOGAF
885. How does your organization know that its Mission, Vision and Values
Statements are appropriate and effectively guiding your organization?
886. How does your organization know that its relationships with other relevant
organizations are appropriately effective and constructive?
887. Does the suppliers quality system have a written procedure for corrective
action when a defect occurs?
888. For each device to be reconditioned, are device specifications, such as
appropriate engineering drawings, component specifications and software
specifications, maintained?
889. Are training programs documented?
890. How does your organization know that its system for attending to the health
and wellbeing of its staff is appropriately effective and constructive?
891. How does your organization know that its support services planning and
management systems are appropriately effective and constructive?
892. How does your organization know that its systems for communicating with
and among staff are appropriately effective and constructive?
893. How does your organization know that its staff entrance standards are
appropriately effective and constructive and being implemented consistently?
894. Are adequate and conveniently located toilet facilities available for use by
the employees?
895. How does your organization know that the research supervision provided to
its staff is appropriately effective and constructive?
896. Are storage areas and reconditioning operations designed to prevent mixups and assure orderly handling of both the distressed and reconditioned
devices?
897. Is there any content that may be legally actionable?
898. How does your organization know that its staff financial services are
appropriately effective and constructive?
899. How does your organization know that the system for managing its
facilities is appropriately effective and constructive?
900. How does your organization know that its advisory services are
appropriately effective and constructive?
901. How does your organization know that it is appropriately effective and
constructive in preparing its staff for organizational aspirations?
902. Are salvageable and salvaged medical devices stored in a manner to prevent
damage and/or contamination?
903. If your organization thinks it is doing something well, can it prove this?
904. How does the organization know that its industry and community
engagement planning and management systems are appropriately effective and
constructive in enabling relationships with key stakeholder groups?
3.6 Team Directory: TOGAF
905. Who are the Team Members?
906. Where will the product be used and/or delivered or built when appropriate?
907. Days from the time the issue is identified?
908. Who should receive information (all stakeholders)?
909. How will you accomplish and manage the objectives?
910. How do unidentified risks impact the outcome of the TOGAF project?
911. How will the team handle changes?
912. When will you produce deliverables?
913. Who will be the stakeholders on your next TOGAF project?
914. What are you going to deliver or accomplish?
915. When does information need to be distributed?
916. Process decisions: do job conditions warrant additional actions to collect
job information and document on-site activity?
917. How and in what format should information be presented?
918. Who will write the meeting minutes and distribute?
919. Why is the work necessary?
920. What needs to be communicated?
921. Process decisions: how well was task order work performed?
922. Process decisions: is work progressing on schedule and per contract
requirements?
923. Decisions: what could be done better to improve the quality of the
constructed product?
3.7 Team Operating Agreement: TOGAF
924. Are leadership responsibilities shared among team members (versus a
single leader)?
925. What is the number of cases currently teamed?
926. What individual strengths does each team member bring to the group?
927. What administrative supports will be put in place to support the team and
the teams supervisor?
928. Do you solicit member feedback about meetings and what would make
them better?
929. Do you post meeting notes and the recording (if used) and notify
participants?
930. Did you determine the technology methods that best match the messages to
be communicated?
931. The method to be used in the decision making process; Will it be consensus,
majority rule, or the supervisor having the final say?
932. What types of accommodations will be formulated and put in place for
sustaining the team?
933. Do you vary your voice pace, tone and pitch to engage participants and gain
involvement?
934. How does teaming fit in with overall organizational goals and meet
organizational needs?
935. How will group handle unplanned absences?
936. What is group supervision?
937. Is compensation based on team and individual performance?
938. Conflict resolution: how will disputes and other conflicts be mediated or
resolved?
939. What is teaming?
940. Have you established procedures that team members can follow to work
effectively together, such as a team operating agreement?
941. Do you begin with a question to engage everyone?
942. Do you listen for voice tone and word choice to understand the meaning
behind words?
943. Must your team members rely on the expertise of other members to
complete tasks?
3.8 Team Performance Assessment: TOGAF
944. To what degree does the team possess adequate membership to achieve its
ends?
945. To what degree can all members engage in open and interactive
considerations?
946. To what degree can team members vigorously define the teams purpose in
considerations with others who are not part of the functioning team?
947. What are you doing specifically to develop the leaders around you?
948. To what degree do team members feel that the purpose of the team is
important, if not exciting?
949. Which situations call for a more extreme type of adaptiveness in which
team members actually re-define roles?
950. To what degree does the teams purpose constitute a broader, deeper
aspiration than just accomplishing short-term goals?
951. Individual task proficiency and team process behavior: what is important
for team functioning?
952. To what degree can the team measure progress against specific goals?
953. Can team performance be reliably measured in simulator and live exercises
using the same assessment tool?
954. To what degree do members articulate the goals beyond the team
membership?
955. Social categorization and intergroup behaviour: Does minimal intergroup
discrimination make social identity more positive?
956. To what degree do team members frequently explore the teams purpose and
its implications?
957. How hard do you try to make a good selection?
958. How do you recognize and praise members for contributions?
959. To what degree do the goals specify concrete team work products?
960. Effects of crew composition on crew performance: Does the whole equal
the sum of its parts?
961. How much interpersonal friction is there in your team?
962. If you have received criticism from reviewers that your work suffered from
method variance, what was the circumstance?
963. If you are worried about method variance before you collect data, what sort
of design elements might you include to reduce or eliminate the threat of method
variance?
3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment: TOGAF
964. To what degree are the relative importance and priority of the goals clear to
all team members?
965. Is it critical or vital to the job?
966. What tools are available to determine whether all contract functional and
compliance areas of performance objectives, measures, and incentives have been
met?
967. To what degree are the goals ambitious?
968. How is the timing of assessments organized (e.g., pre/post-test, single point
during training, multiple reassessment during training)?
969. What steps have you taken to improve performance?
970. To what degree are sub-teams possible or necessary?
971. What resources do you need?
972. To what degree do team members understand one anothers roles and skills?
973. Do the goals support your organizations goals?
974. What are the staffs preferences for training on technology-based platforms?
975. What evaluation results did you have?
976. How do you make use of research?
977. Does statute or regulation require the job responsibility?
978. To what degree is the team cognizant of small wins to be celebrated along
the way?
979. Which training platform formats (i.e., mobile, virtual, videogame-based)
were implemented in your effort(s)?
980. What types of learning are targeted (e.g., cognitive, affective, psychomotor,
procedural)?
981. What are top priorities?
982. How should adaptive assessments be implemented?
3.10 Issue Log: TOGAF
983. What date was the issue resolved?
984. What is the stakeholders political influence?
985. What is a Stakeholder?
986. Who do you turn to if you have questions?
987. What is a change?
988. Who is the issue assigned to?
989. Who reported the issue?
990. Are the stakeholders getting the information they need, are they consulted,
are concerns addressed?
991. Are the TOGAF project issues uniquely identified, including to which
product they refer?
992. What are the typical contents?
993. What help do you and your team need from the stakeholders?
994. Who are the members of the governing body?
995. Are stakeholder roles recognized by your organization?
996. What is the status of the issue?
997. Are you constantly rushing from meeting to meeting?
998. In classifying stakeholders, which approach to do so are you using?
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
TOGAF
999. Is there sufficient funding available for this?
1000. Are the necessary foundations in place to ensure the sustainability of the
results of the programme?
1001. Is progress on outcomes due to your program?
1002. What are the goals of the program?
1003. Do the partners have sufficient financial capacity to keep up the benefits
produced by the programme?
1004. Is there undesirable impact on staff or resources?
1005. Is the verbiage used appropriate and understandable?
1006. Overall, how does the program function to serve the clients?
1007. How many more potential communications channels were introduced by
the discovery of the new stakeholders?
1008. What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the TOGAF
project?
1009. Based on your TOGAF project communication management plan, what
worked well?
1010. How is agile program management done?
1011. Where is the Risk in the TOGAF project?
1012. How can you monitor progress?
1013. How is agile portfolio management done?
4.1 Project Performance Report: TOGAF
1014. To what degree does the teams approach to its work allow for modification
and improvement over time?
1015. To what degree can the cognitive capacity of individuals accommodate the
flow of information?
1016. How is the data used?
1017. To what degree is the information network consistent with the structure of
the formal organization?
1018. To what degree will the team adopt a concrete, clearly understood, and
agreed-upon approach that will result in achievement of the teams goals?
1019. To what degree are fresh input and perspectives systematically caught and
added (for example, through information and analysis, new members, and senior
sponsors)?
1020. To what degree can team members meet frequently enough to accomplish
the teams ends?
1021. To what degree do team members articulate the teams work approach?
1022. To what degree will team members, individually and collectively, commit
time to help themselves and others learn and develop skills?
1023. To what degree are the goals realistic?
1024. To what degree are the skill areas critical to team performance present?
1025. To what degree can team members frequently and easily communicate
with one another?
1026. To what degree does the formal organization make use of individual
resources and meet individual needs?
1027. To what degree does the task meet individual needs?
4.2 Variance Analysis: TOGAF
1028. How do you verify authorization to proceed with all authorized work?
1029. Wbs elements contractually specified for reporting of status to your
organization (lowest level only)?
1030. Are there knowledgeable TOGAF projections of future performance?
1031. How do you identify and isolate causes of favorable and unfavorable cost
and schedule variances?
1032. Can the relationship with problem customers be restructured so that there
is a win-win situation?
1033. Are detailed work packages planned as far in advance as practicable?
1034. Are all budgets assigned to control accounts?
1035. What business event causes fluctuations?
1036. What business event caused the fluctuation?
1037. Are there changes in the overhead pool and/or organization structures?
1038. Is there a logical explanation for any variance?
1039. Are the bases and rates for allocating costs from each indirect pool
consistently applied?
1040. What does a favorable labor efficiency variance mean?
1041. Budget versus actual. how does the monthly budget compare to actual
experience?
1042. How does your organization measure performance?
1043. How are material, labor, and overhead variances calculated and recorded?
1044. What is exceptional?
1045. Are records maintained to show how undistributed budgets are controlled?
1046. Favorable or unfavorable variance?
1047. Are material costs reported within the same period as that in which BCWP
is earned for that material?
4.3 Earned Value Status: TOGAF
1048. How much is it going to cost by the finish?
1049. How does this compare with other TOGAF projects?
1050. Where is evidence-based earned value in your organization reported?
1051. Earned value can be used in almost any TOGAF project situation and in
almost any TOGAF project environment. it may be used on large TOGAF
projects, medium sized TOGAF projects, tiny TOGAF projects (in cut-down
form), complex and simple TOGAF projects and in any market sector. some
people, of course, know all about earned value, they have used it for years - but
perhaps not as effectively as they could have?
1052. When is it going to finish?
1053. If earned value management (EVM) is so good in determining the true
status of a TOGAF project and TOGAF project its completion, why is it that
hardly any one uses it in information systems related TOGAF projects?
1054. Verification is a process of ensuring that the developed system satisfies the
stakeholders agreements and specifications; Are you building the product right?
What do you verify?
1055. What is the unit of forecast value?
1056. Where are your problem areas?
1057. Validation is a process of ensuring that the developed system will actually
achieve the stakeholders desired outcomes; Are you building the right product?
What do you validate?
1058. Are you hitting your TOGAF projects targets?
4.4 Risk Audit: TOGAF
1059. Is the auditor able to evaluate contradictory evidence in an unbiased
manner?
1060. Do you record and file all audits?
1061. Do you have a realistic budget and do you present regular financial reports
that identify how you are going against that budget?
1062. Does the team have the right mix of skills?
1063. Does the TOGAF project team have experience with the technology to be
implemented?
1064. What is happening in other jurisdictions? Could that happen here?
1065. How do you govern assets?
1066. Does your organization have any policies or procedures to guide its
decision-making (code of conduct for the board, conflict of interest policy, etc.)?
1067. Why do audits fail?
1068. Tradeoff: how much risk can be tolerated and still deliver the products
where they need to be?
1069. Do you promote education and training opportunities?
1070. Do you ensure the recommended rules of play and protocols are followed
for your activity?
1071. The halo effect in business risk audits: can strategic risk assessment bias
auditor judgment about accounting details?
1072. Do you have an emergency plan?
1073. Are corresponding safety and risk management policies posted for all to
see?
1074. Does the implementation method matter?
1075. Do your financial policies and procedures ensure that each step in
financial handling (receipt, recording, banking, reporting) is not completed by
one person?
1076. Are contracts reviewed before renewal?
1077. Strategic business risk audit methodologies; are corresponding an attempt
to sell other services, and is management becoming the client of the audit rather
than the shareholder?
4.5 Contractor Status Report: TOGAF
1078. What was the actual budget or estimated cost for your organizations
services?
1079. How is risk transferred?
1080. What was the overall budget or estimated cost?
1081. How does the proposed individual meet each requirement?
1082. How long have you been using the services?
1083. What is the average response time for answering a support call?
1084. What are the minimum and optimal bandwidth requirements for the
proposed solution?
1085. What process manages the contracts?
1086. Who can list a TOGAF project as organization experience, your
organization or a previous employee of your organization?
1087. What was the final actual cost?
1088. What was the budget or estimated cost for your organizations services?
1089. Are there contractual transfer concerns?
1090. If applicable; describe your standard schedule for new software version
releases. Are new software version releases included in the standard
maintenance plan?
1091. Describe how often regular updates are made to the proposed solution. Are
corresponding regular updates included in the standard maintenance plan?
4.6 Formal Acceptance: TOGAF
1092. Have all comments been addressed?
1093. What features, practices, and processes proved to be strengths or
weaknesses?
1094. Do you buy pre-configured systems or build your own configuration?
1095. General estimate of the costs and times to complete the TOGAF project?
1096. Who would use it?
1097. What are the requirements against which to test, Who will execute?
1098. Was the TOGAF project work done on time, within budget, and according
to specification?
1099. Did the TOGAF project manager and team act in a professional and
ethical manner?
1100. How well did the team follow the methodology?
1101. Is formal acceptance of the TOGAF project product documented and
distributed?
1102. Did the TOGAF project achieve its MOV?
1103. Was the sponsor/customer satisfied?
1104. Do you buy-in installation services?
1105. What is the Acceptance Management Process?
1106. What lessons were learned about your TOGAF project management
methodology?
1107. How does your team plan to obtain formal acceptance on your TOGAF
project?
1108. Was the TOGAF project managed well?
1109. What function(s) does it fill or meet?
1110. Was the client satisfied with the TOGAF project results?
1111. Was the TOGAF project goal achieved?
5.0 Closing Process Group: TOGAF
1112. What can you do better next time, and what specific actions can you take
to improve?
1113. Is the TOGAF project funded?
1114. What areas were overlooked on this TOGAF project?
1115. Is this a follow-on to a previous TOGAF project?
1116. Does the close educate others to improve performance?
1117. Did the TOGAF project team have the right skills?
1118. What were the actual outcomes?
1119. Did you do what you said you were going to do?
1120. What were things that you did well, and could improve, and how?
1121. What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on
the next TOGAF project?
1122. Who are the TOGAF project stakeholders?
1123. What is the TOGAF project name and date of completion?
1124. How will staff learn how to use the deliverables?
1125. Is this a follow-on to a previous TOGAF project?
1126. Based on your TOGAF project communication management plan, what
worked well?
1127. Did the delivered product meet the specified requirements and goals of the
TOGAF project?
5.1 Procurement Audit: TOGAF
1128. Do appropriate controls ensure that procurement decisions are not biased
by conflicts of interest or corruption?
1129. Who are the key suppliers?
1130. Are there appropriate controls in place to ensure that the procurement
TOGAF project complies with relevant legislation?
1131. Are lease-purchase agreements drawn and processed in accordance with
law and regulation?
1132. Do contracts contain regular reviews, targets and quality standards in order
to assess suppliers performance?
1133. Were the tender documents comprehensive, transparent and free from
restrictions or conditions which would discriminate against certain suppliers?
1134. What are the threats to supplier relations?
1135. Are goods generally ordered and received in time to be used in the
programs for which they were ordered?
1136. Are petty cash funds operated on an imprest basis?
1137. Are services/tasks combined in such a way that the market is used where
relevant?
1138. Were all admitted tenderers invited to submit a tender for each specific
contract?
1139. Has it been determined which shared services the procurement
function/unit should be part of?
1140. Are rules in automatic disbursement programs adequate to prevent
duplicate payment of invoices?
1141. Has the expected benefits from realisation of the procurement TOGAF
project been calculated?
1142. Does your organization maintain a current file of vendors and vendor
catalogues?
1143. Where required, did candidates give evidence of complying with quality
assurance standards?
1144. Are there authorizations on file to support all deductions from payroll
checks?
1145. If a purchase order calls for a cost-plus agreement, is the method of
determining how final charges will be determined specified?
1146. When tenders were actually rejected because they were abnormally low,
were reasons for this decision given and were they sufficiently grounded?
1147. Was the award criteria that of the most economically advantageous tender?
5.2 Contract Close-Out: TOGAF
1148. Change in attitude or behavior?
1149. What happens to the recipient of services?
1150. How/when used ?
1151. Change in circumstances?
1152. Was the contract complete without requiring numerous changes and
revisions?
1153. How is the contracting office notified of the automatic contract close-out?
1154. Have all contracts been closed?
1155. Why Outsource?
1156. Have all contracts been completed?
1157. Have all contract records been included in the TOGAF project archives?
1158. Has each contract been audited to verify acceptance and delivery?
1159. Parties: Authorized?
1160. Have all acceptance criteria been met prior to final payment to
contractors?
1161. How does it work?
1162. Parties: who is involved?
1163. Was the contract type appropriate?
1164. Are the signers the authorized officials?
1165. Was the contract sufficiently clear so as not to result in numerous disputes
and misunderstandings?
1166. What is capture management?
1167. Change in knowledge?
5.3 Project or Phase Close-Out: TOGAF
1168. Is the lesson significant, valid, and applicable?
1169. Can the lesson learned be replicated?
1170. What process was planned for managing issues/risks?
1171. What is the information level of detail required for each stakeholder?
1172. What advantages do the an individual interview have over a group
meeting, and vice-versa?
1173. What security considerations needed to be addressed during the
procurement life cycle?
1174. What information is each stakeholder group interested in?
1175. What are the informational communication needs for each stakeholder?
1176. Have business partners been involved extensively, and what data was
required for them?
1177. Planned remaining costs?
1178. Was the user/client satisfied with the end product?
1179. Did the TOGAF project management methodology work?
1180. Was the schedule met?
1181. Who are the TOGAF project stakeholders and what are roles and
involvement?
1182. Were messages directly related to the release strategy or phases of the
TOGAF project?
1183. What benefits or impacts does the stakeholder group expect to obtain as a
result of the TOGAF project?
1184. Were the outcomes different from the already stated planned?
1185. Which changes might a stakeholder be required to make as a result of the
TOGAF project?
1186. If you were the TOGAF project sponsor, how would you determine which
TOGAF project team(s) and/or individuals deserve recognition?
1187. What are the mandatory communication needs for each stakeholder?
5.4 Lessons Learned: TOGAF
1188. What were the desired outcomes?
1189. Was the control overhead justified?
1190. What is the growth stage of the organization?
1191. Was the purpose of the TOGAF project, the end products and success
criteria clearly defined and agreed at the start?
1192. How much time is required for the task?
1193. What was the single greatest success and the single greatest shortcoming
or challenge from the TOGAF projects perspective?
1194. Is there a clear cause and effect between the activity and the lesson
learned?
1195. What policy constraints are relevant?
1196. How many government and contractor personnel are authorized for the
TOGAF project?
1197. What is the expected lifespan of the deliverable?
1198. What should have been accomplished during predeployment that was not
accomplished?
1199. What could be done to improve the process?
1200. Were quality procedures built into the TOGAF project?
1201. How adequately involved did you feel in TOGAF project decisions?
1202. What was the methodology behind successful learning experiences, and
how might they be applied to the broader challenge of your organizations
knowledge management?
1203. What if anything has been lacking?
1204. How efficient and effective were TOGAF project team meetings?
1205. How much flexibility is there in the funding (e.g., what authorities does
the program manager have to change to the specifics of the funding within the
overall funding ceiling)?
1206. What on the TOGAF project worked well and was effective in the delivery
of the product?
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