5: Development
Develop the Enterprise Architecture Other Information:
The next step is to build the architecture products based on the purpose of the architecture and the chosen framework. This
consists of the essential products, supporting products (if needed), and individually defined products (e.g., briefing charts,
interview notes) driven by architecture-specific needs and processes. To facilitate integration with other architectures,
it is crucial to include all depictions of relationships with applicable external components, that is, entities outside the
Agency. It may be useful, resources permitting, to conduct some proof-of-principle analyses at various stages of architecture
development. For example, one could conduct trial runs of the EA development process using carefully selected subsets of the
areas to be analyzed. The architecture core team should ensure that the products are consistent and properly interrelated.
If the products are not applied and populated uniformly, the Chief Architect and architecture core team will be unable to
compare or contrast the products or perform thorough analyses. Regardless of the scope and complexity of the views to be developed,
the architecture core team should apply a consistent approach to developing the baseline and target architectures. The selected
approach should include (1) a data collection phase, (2) preliminary product generation, (3) review and revision stages, and
(4) publication and delivery of the architecture products to an appropriate repository.
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