Technology Architecture

The technology architecture development consists of the following steps:

1. Select Technology architecture Reference models, viewpoints and tools
   1. Determine overall modelling process like UML
   2. Identify required catalogs, matrices and diagrams of business building blocks
   3. Identify types of Technology requirements to be collected
   4. Select services
2. Develop Baseline Technology architecture
3. Develop Target Technology architecture
4. Perform Gap analysis
5. Identify candidate roadmap components
6. Resolve impacts
7. Conduct formal stakeholder review
8. Finalize architecture
   1. Finalize work product
9. Create Technology Architecture definition document

Following artifacts are recommended for Technology Architecture by TOGAF

• Catalog
  • Logical/Physicial/ Service
• Matrices
  • Application/ Technology Matrix
• Diagrams
  • Environment & Locations diagram
  • Platform Decomposition diagram
  • Process diagram
  • Network computing / hardware diagram
  • Communications Engineering diagram