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       About the TOGAF Standard

      The TOGAF Standard, a standard of The Open Group, is a proven Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable Enterprise Architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among Enterprise Architecture professionals. Those fluent in the TOGAF standard enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. The TOGAF standard helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.

       About The Open Group

      The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 650 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tools vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries.

      The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ achieved by:

      • Working with customers to capture, understand, and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices

      • Working with suppliers, consortia, and standards bodies to develop consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies

      • Offering a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia

      • Developing and operating the industry’s premier certification service and encouraging procurement of certified products

      Further information on The Open Group is available at www.opengroup.org.

      The Open Group publishes a wide range of technical documentation, most of which is focused on development of Standards and Guides, but which also includes white papers, technical studies, certification and testing documentation, and business titles. Full details and a catalog are available at www.opengroup.org/library.

¹ The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2 (C182), available at www.opengroup.org/library/c182.

      About the Authors

       This Study Guide builds on materials from a number of existing publications from The Open Group. The authors listed here are those who prepared this document. See the Acknowledgements section for more information.

       Andrew Josey, The Open Group

      Andrew Josey is VP Standards and Certification, overseeing all certification and testing programs of The Open Group. He also manages the standards process for The Open Group. Since joining the company in 1996, Andrew has been closely involved with the standards development, certification, and testing activities of The Open Group. He has led many standards development projects including specification and certification development for the ArchiMate®, TOGAF®, POSIX®, and UNIX® programs. Most recently he has led the development of the TOGAF Business Architecture Level 1 credential, and is the lead author of this Study Guide.

      He is a member of the IEEE, USENIX, and the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA). He holds an MSc in Computer Science from University College London.

       Steve Else, EA Principals

      Steve Else is CEO, Chief Architect, and Principal Trainer at EA Principals, a Gold Member of The Open Group. Steve brings a strong operational background to his Enterprise Architecture work, having been a career pilot in the US Air Force and having earned his Airline Transport Rating. He was a leader in a high-level Business Transformation in the US Air Force in 1995 to review all of the Air Force lines of business in terms of capabilities and resources in order to make recommendations about how best to use the public and private sector to meet requirements. In addition, his published doctoral dissertation was on Organization Theory and the Transformation of Large, Complex Organizations.

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      ArchiMate®, DirecNet®, Making Standards Work®, Open O® logo, Open O and Check® Certification logo, OpenPegasus®, Platform 3.0®, The Open Group®, TOGAF®, UNIX®, UNIXWARE®, and the Open Brand X® logo are registered trademarks and Boundaryless Information Flow™, Build with Integrity Buy with Confidence™, Dependability Through Assuredness™, Digital Practitioner Body of Knowledge™, DPBoK™, EMMM™, FACE™, the FACE™ logo, IT4IT™, the IT4IT™ logo, O-DEF™, O-HERA™, O-PAS™, Open FAIR™, Open Platform 3.0™, Open Process Automation™, Open Subsurface Data Universe™, Open Trusted Technology Provider™, Sensor Integration Simplified™, SOSA™, and the SOSA™ logo are trademarks of The Open Group.

      A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge® and BIZBOK® are registered trademarks of the Business Architecture Guild.

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      Business Model Canvas™ is a trademark of Alexander Osterwalder.

      CMMI® is a registered trademarks of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University.

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      All other brand, company, and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks that are the sole property of their respective owners.

      Acknowledgements

      The Open Group gratefully acknowledges The Open Group Architecture Forum for developing the TOGAF standard and the TOGAF Library.

      The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the authors of the TOGAF Series Guides on which this Study Guide is based, and from which extensive material is drawn:

      • Alec Blair

      • Terence Blevins

      • Steve DuPont

      • J. Bryan Lail

      • Mike Lambert

      • Stephen Marshall

      • Chalon Mullins

      The Open Group gratefully acknowledges the following reviewers who participated in the review of this Study Guide:

      • Corinne Brouch

      • Dan Flake

      • Dave Gilmour

      • Paul Homan

      • Jens Kjærby

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