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A pragmatic, right-sized adaptation of TOGAF that makes Enterprise Architecture actionable for growing companies — without the overhead of a full TOGAF implementation.

What is TOGAF?

TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) is the world’s leading EA framework. It also provides a structured method — the Architecture Development Method (ADM) — for designing, planning, implementing, and governing enterprise IT architecture.

Think of TOGAF as a public library of Enterprise Architecture. TOGAF is complex and often overwhelming for organizations that have not yet established formal EA practices. The DBJ Method hides the TOGAF complexity.

What is the DBJ Method?

The DBJ Method distils TOGAF to its essential patterns, adapting them for, faster-moving organizations towards the common goal of AI adoption. It preserves the rigour of TOGAF’s governance and maturity model while reducing ceremony, jargon, and process overhead.

TOGAF contains variant of Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Natively it is solely focused on Architecture teams and roles. DBJ CMM again, encapsulates the complexity and make the CMM usable by the whole team following the DBJ Method.

Moreover, DBJ CMM is the required first step towards the DBJ Method enablement.

The result: a team can achieve measurable EA maturity — and begin developing AI-informed strategy — without first building a dedicated architecture function.

IMPORTANT
Core premise: You do not need to be EA to think architecturally. The DBJ Method treats Enterprise Architecture as a shared discipline — not an IT department — that every domain (Business, Products, Technology) practises together.

DBJ Method Principles

DBJ Method is Product Centric,

Architecture is everyone’s contribution

Every domain is responsible for understanding how its decisions affect the whole system.

Maturity before complexity

Practice the DBJ CMM ladder progressively. Each level must be stable before the next begins.

Cycle, don’t waterfall

DBJ BPT is the operating model at the heart of of feasible smooth sailing in and around the three domains

  1. Business
  2. Products
  3. Technology

“DBJ BPT” The B ↔ P ↔ T loop replaces linear products delivery with iterative, domain-aware execution. Crucially navigating the whole organization in and around the three top level domains.