Framework
Enterprise Architecture Framework
This framework defines the enterprise architecture practice: its principles, scope, viewpoints, deliverables, governance forum, and integration with adjacent governance programmes. It expresses outcomes and operating expectations, not a specific toolchain or notation.
- Type
- Framework
- Version
- 1.0.4
- Date
- 2026-09-14
- Owner
- Chief Technology Officer
- Approving authority
- Governance Library Maintainer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Architecture
- Review frequency
- Annual and upon material change to architecture practice, technology strategy, or organizational structure
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Read the full text on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Outline
- Purpose
- Scope
- Section 1: principles
- Section 2: architecture viewpoints
- Section 3: capability model
- Section 4: target state and transition
- Section 5: governance forum
- Section 6: roles
- Section 7: deliverables
- Section 8: integration with adjacent programmes
- Section 9: fitness functions
- Section 10: operating expectations
- Framework alignment
- Limitations
Frameworks it maps to
- The Open Group TOGAF Standard
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2022
- Open Agile Architecture (O-AA)
- IT4IT Reference Architecture
- C4 model
- Domain-driven design
- Team Topologies
- Wardley mapping
- Accelerate (DORA research)
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 1 Rev. 1
- NIST CSF 2.0
Related documents
- Architecture Decision Records Standardarchitecture
- Reference Architecture Standardarchitecture
- Technology Radar Standardarchitecture
- Architecture Review Procedurearchitecture
- API Design Standardarchitecture
- Data Architecture Standardarchitecture
- Integration Architecture Standardarchitecture
- Document Architecture and Interrelationship Frameworkgovernance
- Enterprise Risk Management Standardrisk
Next
All Documents