The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition - ADM Practitioners’ Guide – 2025 Update

This document is a TOGAF Series Guide: A Practitioners’ Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF ADM. It has been developed and approved by The Open Group, and is part of the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition.

Designed to help the Practitioner, it provides guidance on using the TOGAF framework to develop, maintain, and use an Enterprise Architecture. It is a companion to the TOGAF framework and is intended to bring the concepts and generic constructs in the TOGAF framework to life. It puts forward an approach to develop, maintain, and use an Enterprise Architecture that aligns to a set of requirements and expectations of the stakeholders, and enables predictable value creation.

This document:
• Introduces key topics of concern
• Describes the TOGAF Standard concepts related to the topic
• Shows how it is related to developing, maintaining, and using an EA
• Discusses what the Practitioner needs to know
• Describes what the Practitioner should do with this knowledge

It covers the following topics:
• An introduction to the topic, including how to use this guide with the TOGAF framework and definitions
• Guidance on Enterprise Architecture, including what it is and what it is used for
• Coordinating EA development across the EA Landscape and business cycle
• Using the ADM to develop an Enterprise Architecture
• Guidance on using an Enterprise Architecture
• Guidance on maintaining an Enterprise Architecture