Agile, TOGAF and Enterprise Architecture: Will They Blend?

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Agile, TOGAF and
Enterprise Architecture:
Will They Blend?

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Today’s Speakers
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Corjan Bast
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Presenter:
Danny Greefhorst
Enterprise Architecture Expert
Director at ArchiXL

Today’s Speakers
Presenter:
Danny Greefhorst
Enterprise Architecture Expert
Director at ArchiXL
● Instructor on Enterprise Architecture
● Background in software engineering
● Chair of Via Nova Architectura and
Architecture Section of Dutch Computer Society
● Honorary Medal | Dutch Architecture Forum
● Author of books on architecture principles and digital
transformation

Agenda
The TOGAF Approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Agile and Scrum
Do Agile, EA and TOGAF Relate?
Do Agile, EA and TOGAF Overlap?

The TOGAF Approach to
Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (EA)
“Those properties of a thing and its
environment that are necessary and
sufficient for it to be fit for purpose for its
mission” (L. Fehskens)
“Managing the execution of the
corporate strategy” (J. Scott)
“Fundamental concepts or properties of
a system in its environment embodied in
its elements, relationships, and in the
principles of its design and evolution”
(ISO/IEC 42010)

EA aligns strategy to operations, and
business demand to IT supply, ensuring
changes are in line with strategy and goals
Enterprise Architecture provides insight into
the current and desired state of the
organization, information systems and
technology
EA improves quality of individual solutions,
simplifies their development and
maintenance, and prolonging their life time
Why Enterprise Architecture?
Alignment
Insight
Quality

TOGAF
● Framework for Enterprise Architecture (EA)
● Originally developed by the US government
in the 80s, now owned by the Open Group
● De facto EA standard in the market
● A description of processes, techniques and
products for EA
● A generic framework that can be tailored to
the situation

● The core of TOGAF
● A proven way of developing an
architecture
● Specifically designed to address
business requirements
● An iterative method
● A set of architecture views to ensure
that a complex set of requirements
are adequately addressed
TOGAF Architecture Development Method

How Enterprise Architecture relates to TOGAF
Enterprise Architecture TOGAF
A way of thinking about EA
A detailed description of the
techniques
The knowledge and
experience of practitioners
Other EA frameworks and
techniques (ArchiMate, FEAF,...)
Product-line architecture
Solution architecture
Tactical planning
Business & IT consulting
Architecture
Development Method
+
Guidelines and Techniques
Architecture
Content Framework
Architecture
Capability Framework

Why TOGAF and TOGAF training?
★ Formal standard, governed by a standardization organization
★ Broadly adapted by user organizations, consultants and IT suppliers
★ Includes formal certification process
★ Broad availability of training
★ Freely available for reading online
★ Based on broad experience and practices
★ Can be adapted to specific organizational context
★ Describes EA process as well as EA content and EA governance
★ You can contribute to the standard

Agile and Scrum

Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
source: http://agilemanifesto.org

Principles behind the agile manifesto
● Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery of
valuable software.
● Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer's competitive advantage.
● Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
● Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.
● Build projects around motivated individuals. Give
them the environment and support they need, and
trust them to get the job done.
● The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.
● Working software is the primary measure of
progress.
● Agile processes promote sustainable
development. The sponsors, developers, and
users should be able to maintain a constant
pace indefinitely.
● Continuous attention to technical excellence and
good design enhances agility.
● Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of
work not done--is essential.
● The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
● At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to
become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.

Scrum
Source: neon rain interactive

DevOps applies Agile principles to operations
Development IT OperationsDevOps

Do Agile, EA and
TOGAF Relate?

Architecture vision
Architecture model
Agile starts where Enterprise Architecture ends
building
block
building
block
Goal
Business
Requirement
Architecture
Principle
Agile project
Application
epic user story
Architecture roadmap
candidate
project
candidate
project
component component
componentcomponent

Architecture Vision
Architecture model
Agile starts where Enterprise Architecture ends
building
block
building
block
Goal
Business
Requirement
Architecture
Principle
Agile project
Application
epic user story
Architecture roadmap
candidate
project
candidate
project
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Increase
customer
satisfaction
Self-service
Customers do not have
direct access to back-
office applications
Portal project
component
componentcomponent
component
Customer Portal

Positioning EA and Agile

Scaled Agile Framework
source: http://scaledagileframework.com
Agile is designed for
small teams
Dean Leffingwell
The boys from Rational
Unified Process are back.
Building on the profound
failure of RUP, they are
now pushing the Scaled
Agile Framework as a
simple, one-size fits all
approach to the agile
organization
Ken Schwaber
We do not face,
analyse failures and
limitations of our
assertions, claims,
practices
Philippe Kruchten

Role of Enterprise Architect in SAFe
source: http://scaledagileframework.com
- maintain holistic vision
- aligns business drivers with
technical decisions
- sets technology standards
- drive common infrastructure
- influences modeling, design
and coding practices
- facilitates reuse of emergent
solutions, knowledge & patterns
- synchronizes issues and NFRs
across solutions

Scaling Agile @ Spotify
Chief architect
- coordinates work on high-level
architectural issues that cut
across multiple systems
- reviews development of new
systems to make sure they
avoid common mistakes, and
that they are aligned with
architectural vision
- the feedback is always just
suggestions and input - the
decision for the final design of
the system still lies with the
squad building it
source: Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson, 2012

What does this mean for training?
There remains a role for Enterprise Architects
○ Need for training on Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF
Some Enterprise Architects will become part of Scrum teams
○ Need for training on Agile and Scrum
People need better understanding of how EA and Agile relate
○ Opportunity for new training and consulting

Do Agile, EA and
TOGAF Overlap?

Enterprise Architecture versus Agile?
The “old way” versus the “new way”

Misconceptions about EA and TOGAF

Misconceptions about EA and TOGAF
● EA is about modelling everything
● You need to follow all the steps in TOGAF
● Architecture principles are laws that cannot be deviated from
● Developing an EA takes a long time
● TOGAF is a waterfall approach
● EA prescribes things that should be left to the project

Example architecture principles
through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
● Deliver working software frequently, from a couple
of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference
to the shorter timescale.
progress.
users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.
Agile is an architecture

Example architecture model
source: neon rain interactive
Scrum is also an architecture

Applicability of Agile Manifesto to EA
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
Business
outcome

Applicability of agile principles to EA process
through early and continuous delivery of valuable
software.
● Deliver working software frequently, from a couple
of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference
to the shorter timescale.
progress.
users should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.
The draft
version of the
architecture

Our principles for EA
★ Architects focus on what is essential
★ Architects provide concrete and useful results
★ Architects facilitate a collaborative process
★ Architects provide knowledge and skills
★ Architects use reference architectures
★ Architects use open standard methods and techniques
source: http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/16108

How Enterprise Architecture overlaps with Agile
Enterprise Architecture Agile
Focus on management support
Produces paper and insight
Pre-project
Not necessarily daily
Abstraction
Focus on user support
Produces working software
Project
Daily work
Technical excellence
Iterative
Multi-disciplinary
Mandated business
representative(s)
Collaborative
Soft skills
Only the essentials

Conclusions
★ Enterprise Architecture provides an Agile project with a vision
★ Agile provides Enterprise Architecture with a good set of principles
★ Agile and Scrum can be seen as reference architectures

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