If not TOGAF… then what?

Svyatoslav Kotusev’s article, A comparison of the top four enterprise architecture frameworks received varying feedback when Cyma Co-Founder and Director Michael Tapp reposted it on LinkedIn. It assesses these frameworks and doesn’t pull any punches. The article is meant to be provocative, but there is a lot of truth in what Kotusev is saying. His approach to Enterprise Architecture is endorsed and promoted by the British Computer Society.

Rather than just bagging some of the best known EA frameworks, he does promote an alternative - Enterprise Architecture on a Page - which we have found is much closer to the reality of what works in the real world. We at Cyma are excited to see that others are aligned to our way of thinking. This is how we have been doing IT architecture for some time and we have embraced and further evolved this style of framework. Rather than define an explicit set of architecture processes, the framework provides a rich set of artefacts/tools that add real value, something that every IT architect should have in their kitbag.