as a community service objectarchitects offers a free short book on what an entprise architect can expect from TOGAF 9 - the new version of „The OpenGroup Enterprise Architecture Framework“
Download it here using this link (PDF, about 5 Megs)
From the Preface:
Why would anybody need a 60 pages short book on TOGAF 9 if TOGAF itself is a 780 pages architecture framework, written by renowned experts from 300 top IT companies who sure know their stuff and will provide you with anything you need as an enterprise architect?
The answer is: YES – TOGAF 9 provides you with very helpful, very sound and extensive lists of WHAT to do in Enterprise Architecture. The advice from various people working in Enterprise Architecture is: Use TOGAF! There’s no reason not to use it.
But TOGAF does not yet provide you with a QuickStart and Accelerators that give an Expert a fast to read ballpark view of which items of an enterprise architect’s task list are covered by TOGAF and which are not. And as you will also see, there are areas of an Enterprise Architect’s task list which are not covered by TOGAF at the moment. This makes it a rewarding task to give people interested in TOGAF an idea of what they can expect and what they cannot expect.
