What are the levels of the Architecture Landscape?
What are the levels of the Architecture Landscape?
The levels of the Architecture Landscape are Capability, Segment, and Strategic Architectures. Strategic Architectures provide a long-term summary view of the enterprise, Segment Architectures offer detailed operating models for specific areas, and Capability Architectures focus on how the enterprise can support specific units of capability.
37.2 Architecture Landscape The Architecture Landscape holds architectural views of the state of the enterprise at particular points in time. Due to the sheer volume and the diverse stakeholder needs throughout an entire enterprise, the Architecture Landscape is divided into three levels of granularity: 1. *Strategic Architectures* show a long-term summary view of the entire enterprise. Strategic Architectures provide an organizing framework for operational and change activity and allow for direction setting at an executive level. 2. *Segment Architectures* provide more detailed operating models for areas within an enterprise. Segment Architectures can be used at the program or portfolio level to organize and operationally align more detailed change activity. 3. *Capability Architectures* show in a more detailed fashion how the enterprise can support a particular unit of capability. Capability Architectures are used to provide an overview of current capability, target capability, and capability increments and allow for individual work packages and projects to be grouped within managed portfolios and programs.