CHAPTER 3: ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE
Governance and standards
Governance is a key component of any enterprise architecture – not least because the architecture itself provides compliance rules to constrain design decisions within the enterprise.
In the US, one of the key governance drivers for enterprise architecture is the Information Technology Management Reform Act 1996, 8 more often referred to as the Clinger-Cohen Act. This mandates the use of a defined enterprise architecture – at least, for information technology – in all US federal government departments. It places an explicit emphasis on:
• capital planning and investment control
• performance-based and results-based management
• responsibilities of the CIO (Chief Information ...
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