The Open Group OG0-093 Question Answer
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect within a leading
professional services company that specializes in providing outsourcing services.
Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service
management. The company also provides business consulting services.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF
standard, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer.
An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives
from the major service areas and consulting practice.
With numerous service areas and many diverse engagements in progress at any given
time, overall engagement management within the company has become challenging.
The company has recently had a number of high profile projects that have overrun on
budget and under delivered, thereby damaging its reputation.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning
team to create a strategic Enterprise Architecture to address these issues. The EA team
has held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to
govern the architecture work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic
level and laid out high-level Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set
out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period. This will
include three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and
Migration plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed
architecture. He has received concerns from some of the senior management across the
company that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it
can produce sufficient value to warrant the risks.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?