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Scenario
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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services
company. The company has over 15,000 outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world's
largest outsourcing projects. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and
service management. The company also provides business consulting services. Roughly half of its
turnover comes from the private sector and half from the public sector.
With numerous service areas and a large number of 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 company has an established an Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, 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.
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 defined a framework and
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
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 vice presidents across the company that the proposed
architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant
the attendant risks.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?
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