Acta Informatica Pragensia 2013, 2(2), 68-76 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.255990

TOGAF usage in outsourcing of software development

Aziz Ahmad Rais, Rudolf Pecinovsky
Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague, W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic

TOGAF is an Enterprise Architecture framework that provides a method for developing Enterprise Architecture called architecture development method (ADM). The purpose of this paper is whether TOGAF ADM can be used for developing software application architecture. Because the software application architecture is one of the disciplines in application development life cycle, it is important to find out how the enterprise architecture development method can support the application architecture development. Having an open standard that can be used in the application architecture development could help in outsourcing of software development. If ADM could be used for software application architecture development, then we could consider its usability in outsourcing of software development.

Keywords: Outsourcing, Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF, Application Development, software application architecture

Received: October 15, 2013; Revised: December 16, 2013; Accepted: December 25, 2013; Published: December 31, 2013  Show citation

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