Azure Architecture Best Practices

his is a recording of a free online event where I was presenting together with Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, Dominik Zemp, about Azure Architecture Best Practices.

Preliminary Phase: Architecture Principles  

Principles in the TOGAF standard are established and maintained as part of the Preliminary Phase. This example shows how principles, their dependencies, and their goals can be represented in a graphical way.

Phase A: Architecture Vision‌  

In the TOGAF standard, Phase A is concerned with establishing a high-level vision of the target architecture, across all the sub-domains of the Enterprise Architecture. An important part of this will be to establish and model the strategy of the business, and show how the architecture, and possible solutions that realize the architecture, implement the strategy.

Example: Strategy View

The Strategy viewpoint allows the Business Architect to model an overview of the courses of action chosen or considered by the enterprise, the capabilities and resources supporting them, the envisaged outcomes, and how these contribute to the organization’s goals and drivers.