Last week I taught a TOGAF certification course in Ottawa. 17 of the 18 participants were either Government of Canada employees or contractors. I learned a little more about the extent to which TOGAF is now being used there. More to come, but here's what I know so far:

Hussein Chinoy of Vistronix recently participated in TOGAF 9 certification training. As a class exercise, he created a SWOT for the adoption of TOGAF by the US Department of Agriculture agency he works for, NRCS. The example is especially relevant since USDA officially endorses the use of TOGAF alongside FEA.

Hussein also created a great annotated timeline of EA at http://www.bespokesystems.net/ea/timeline/.

SWOT Analysis: Introduction of TOGAF to the USDA NRCS

This week I taught a TOGAF certification course in Montreal – one of my favorite cities. The course had participants from Health Canada and Revenue Canada, both national government agencies. One of the course exercises was to conduct a SWOT analysis on the adoption of TOGAF. I grouped the government participants together and they came up with the following SWOT for TOGAF adoption for government (my comments are in parentheses):
 
Strengths

I had the opportunity over the last couple months to assist a large health care provider in setting up their enterprise architecture practice. Although the organization was a private non-profit, rather than government, most of the issues are similar to those which agency architects face. Also, because of their emphasis on quality of care, they decided to integrate the FEA Performance Reference Model (PRM) into their EA framework.

This post is actually an extended comment made on an earlier post by James Odrowski of Componentwave. It's based on his experience on a large Federal EA initiative. I thought it might have got lost in the pile of old posts, so I thought I'd resurrect it:

Today we have a guest post from Tom Graves, a UK-based EA consultant who has frequently commented on this blog. His post is a case study in the use of TOGAF in a social services agency. The views expressed are his own.

by John Polgreen, Ph.D., Associate of Architecting the Enterprise

by John Polgreen, Ph.D., Associate of Architecting the Enterprise

The visual conceptulization of segments in TOGAF 9 (below) helps me see how segments fit into the overall EA effort of an agency or department.

by John Polgreen, Ph.D., Associate of Architecting the Enterprise

by John Polgreen, Ph.D., Associate of Architecting the Enterprise