The Wheel: DBJ ADM
The DBJ ADM is the TOGAF ADM cut down to what an organization without a dedicated architecture team can actually sustain: nine TOGAF steps become five. Each one produces a written artifact. The Business Architecture Board reviews artifacts, not conversations.
| DBJ Step | Produces |
|---|---|
| 1 — Strategy & Motivation | What the organization will not trade away |
| 2 — Business | What is being attempted, and why |
| 3 — Application | The logical structure: systems and their interfaces |
| 4 — Technology | The physical structure: platforms and deployment |
| 5 — Implementation | The approved path forward, recorded and signed off |
Requirements Management sits at the hub of the wheel, read and added to by every step.
NOTE
The wheel authorizes delivery. It never delivers.
It turns only at DBJ CMM L5. Below that, there is nothing to steer.
The steps, the deliverables and the iteration rules are in DBJ ADM · one wheel or many is in Multi Wheel · the hub is in Requirements Management