Issue 6-4

Aligning Portfolio Establishment Activities to Business Drivers Is Key to Gaining Buy-in and Adoption

The ArchiMate® enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed to provide a uniform representation for enterprise architecture descriptions1. It offers an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relationships and dependencies.

An enterprise architecture is rarely if ever successfully implemented in its entirety in a single project; it is generally implemented incrementally, as a succession of individual business solution projects or coordinated solution programs. How one thinks of architecture critically affects the ability to govern the implementation of these solutions.

Enterprise architecture governance is a consensus-driven framework. Business and IT professionals use it to guide significant architecture decisions. The framework helps professionals oversee the delivery of business value from major enterprise-level architecture activities.