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Scenario: Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major supplier in the…

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Scenario: Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major supplier in the automotive industry. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing plants across the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Kore a. Each of these plants has been operating its own planning and production scheduling systems, as well as custom developed applications that drive the automated production equipment at each plant. The company is implementing lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste and improve the efficiency of all of its production operations. During a recent exercise held for internal quality improvement, it was determined that a significant reduction in process waste could be achieved by replacing the current planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in the Cleveland data center. This central system would provide support to each of the plants replacing the functionality in the existing systems. It would also eliminate the need for full data centers at each of the plant facilities. A reduced number of IT staff could support the remaining applications. In some cases, a third-party contractor could provide those staff. The Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has mature, well- developed architecture governance and development processes that are strongly based on TOGAF 9. At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations. The request covered the initial architectural investigations and the development of a comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation. The Common ERP Deployment architecture project team has now been formed, and the project team has been asked to develop an Architecture Vision that will achieve the desired outcomes and benefits. Some of the plant managers have expressed concern about the security and reliability of diving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. The Chief Engineer wants to know how these concerns can be addressed. Refer to the Scenario During the initial meeting of the Common ERP Deployment architecture project team, a number of alternative recommendations for how to proceed are put forward by members of the team. You have been asked to select the most appropriate recommendation to ensure that the team evaluates different approaches to the problem and clarifies the requirements for the architecture. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
Answer options
A: The team should develop Baseline and Target Architectures for each of the manufacturing plants, ensuring that the views corresponding to selected viewpoints address key concerns of the stakeholders. A consolidated gap analysis between the architectures will then be used to validate the approach, and determine the capability increments needed to achieve the target state.
B: The team should exercise due diligence and carefully research vendor literature and conduct a series of briefings with vendors that are on the current approved supplier list. Based on the findings from the research, the team should define a preliminary Architecture Vision. The team should then use that model to build consensus among the key stakeholders.
C: The team should use stakeholder analysis to understand who has concerns about the initiative. The team should then hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing plants using the business scenario technique. This will then enable them to identify and document the key high-level stakeholder requirements for the architecture. Correct answer
D: The team should conduct a pilot project that will enable vendors on the short list to demonstrate potential solutions that will address the concerns of the stakeholders. Based on the findings of that pilot project, a complete set of retirements will be developed that will drive the evolution of the architecture.
Correct Answer:
C. The team should use stakeholder analysis to understand who has concerns about the initiative. The team should then hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing plants using the business scenario technique. This will then enable them to identify and document the key high-level stakeholder requirements for the architecture.
Explanation

The project team is in Phase A: Architecture Vision. A key objective of this phase is to identify stakeholders, their concerns, and the key business requirements that will shape the architecture. The scenario explicitly mentions that plant managers have concerns. The Business Scenario technique is a primary tool recommended by TOGAF for eliciting and understanding business needs from stakeholders. This approach directly addresses the request to clarify requirements and evaluate different approaches by first understanding the problem from the stakeholders' perspective, which is the correct first step in the Architecture Vision phase.

Why Incorrect

A. Developing Baseline/Target Architectures and performing gap analysis are core activities of Phases B, C, D, and E, which occur after the Architecture Vision has been established.
B. This approach is solution-driven rather than requirements-driven. The Architecture Vision should be based on business requirements, not on what vendors can offer.
D. A pilot project is a solution-oriented activity that occurs much later in the ADM, typically to test a proposed solution during or after Phase E, not during the initial vision phase.

References

1. The Open Group Standard, TOGAF® Version 9.2, Part II: Architecture Development Method (ADM), Section 6.4.4, Step 4: "Identify the key stakeholders and their concerns/objectives, and define the key business requirements to be addressed...".

2. The Open Group Standard, TOGAF® Version 9.2, Part III: ADM Guidelines and Techniques, Section 26.1, Business Scenarios, Purpose: "A Business Scenario is a technique used to help identify and understand business needs...".

3. The Open Group Standard, TOGAF® Version 9.2, Part III: ADM Guidelines and Techniques, Section 25, Stakeholder Management. This technique is critical in Phase A to understand stakeholder perspectives.

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