Architectural Patterns

Limitations of TOGAF

There are certain limitations too, which are listed as follows:

• The framework plays the role of a design authority in an enterprise and offers very few features for the architects to maintain enterprise-wide descriptions, standards, principles, and so on
• The framework provides very limited guidance to solution architects
• The framework assumes that enterprises will have their own processes that will be integrated with TOGAF
• It is just a framework, not a modeling language or any other component that could be treated as a replacement for architect skills
• It is not very consistent with the metamodels it supports

In the next topic, we will examine the details of the Zachman framework, which has also gained a lot of popularity ...