 I'm Steve Nunn, president and CEO of the Open Group. Welcome to Toolkit Tuesday, where we highlight the various components and leading experts of the Architects Toolkit, a collated portfolio of the most pertinent technology standards for enterprise architects. During the series, I'll be calling on a number of recognized experts who will bring their particular insights on how to most effectively use the various tools in the Architects Toolkit. We'll have a mix of interviews, panel sessions and pre-recorded presentations along the way. While all standards of the Open Group are designed so they can be adopted independently of one another, the greatest value for an organization can be derived when they're used in unison, that some of the parts should be greater than the whole. In the Architects Toolkit, we have collated a portfolio of the most pertinent ones for architects, together, all in one place. For most of these tools, certification from the Open Group is also available, so practitioners can demonstrate that they have the skills required and recruiters can take the guesswork out of the recruitment process, all backed up by our Open Badges program. AI Chat Bots An interesting idea I've come across recently is the development of AI bots to help us and our customers ranging from sales assistant bots, customer service bots to product inquiry bots. You know the sort of thing that you see on the bottom of a website that offers a Chat Now function and takes you to an automated service. These are all developed and trained on their own body of knowledge or AI corpus, and many of them have now added machine learning techniques to obtain feedback on the usefulness of their answers and to improve or continue learning, as us humans would say. But actually, are we creating lots of mini people, mini silos of knowledge, each based upon their own set of data? Don't we need to share that knowledge across the enterprise? Don't we need to share our learnings and improvements, whether that's human learnt or machine learnt? That join up clearly requires joined up thinking and potentially joined up data and processes. In other words, an architected approach for the integration of these AI entities. A new use case for us in EA potentially. Hello everyone and welcome to Toolkit Tuesday. I hope wherever you are in the world you're keeping safe and well and it's great to have you with us today, whatever time of day or night you're joining us. We appreciate your time. Do use the Chat Channel please to communicate with other attendees. We love to know where you're joining us from in particular. So please use that in any other comments and things you want to share with the attendees. On this session, we're going to be doing something a little different but there won't be an opportunity for live questions today. But if you do have a question that you'd like me to answer as I'm our main speaker today then please do submit it anyway in the Q&A channel. And to do that click on the three dots in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and you will see the opportunity to click on Q&A. If you submit something in there then we will do everything we can as long as you leave us your details. We'll do everything you can to get you an answer to your question. So remiss of me not to actually start today by thanking Paul Holman. Another great EA Minute Paul and I really want to thank you for all of those that you've contributed over the course of Season 1 and Season 2 so far. Look forward to more in the future. They're a great way to start our sessions and I know that they're very much appreciated by the attendees. So thank you Paul. So as I say today is a little different. This is our last one before we take our end of year break and more on that a bit later on. But I thought I'd take the opportunity to just do a little recap on some of the things that have been going on in the Open Group Enterprise Architects framework over the last few months. We've had some quite significant announcements over the course of 2022 many of which have been covered by a separate episode on Toolkit Tuesday but just to do a little recap I'll do a short version of some of the main points. So bear with me as I move from host to presenter mode here and let's see what we can do here. And away we go. So obviously like I said I'm not going to have an opportunity to go into great detail on any of these topics and many of them have been covered but it would be remiss of me of course not to start with our announcement in April of this year of the Togov Standard 10th edition representing a lot of work from members of the Open Group and input from Enterprise Architecture practitioners who are non-members as well in various ways we have of doing that. But we announced that in April this year and a reminder what is the Togov Standard unlikely that you're attending one of these and you haven't heard of the Togov Standard but just in case it's an Enterprise Architecture methodology and framework it's developed by practitioners for practitioners and is based on tried and trusted best practices and it's used by many of the world's leading organisations for their EA work and particularly we've seen a really significant use and stories of how beneficial it is for use in digital transformation and improving operational efficiency generally. So it's comprehensive, modular and configurable. So what do I mean by that? Well you'll hear more about the modular structure in particular in just a few minutes but it's configurable, you don't have to follow it slavishly it's a lengthy piece of work but what you can do and what we encourage is that you tailor it to the use in your organisation. So the focus is on the 10th edition, what's new? Well basically we've got updated modular structure and some extended content and what we've done is we focus more on what the market told us what you told us you wanted which was more better and topical guidance on how to deliver the best enterprise architecture that supports stakeholders and their organisation. So a little more on that, the modular structure. We've broken it down into fundamental content and Togaf series guides. So the fundamental content I'll say a little bit more in a moment but you'll be very familiar with that and the Togaf series guides are really where the how-to stuff comes in the guides on how to operate or how to use the Togaf standard in a particular environment for example if you're operating in an agile environment how to do that if you want to focus more on the business architecture side then we've got actually six new Togaf series guides on that topic and all of this is contained in the Togaf library along with a lot of enterprise architecture content that isn't actually part of the Togaf standard the white papers guides and other tools that we have and the Togaf library is part of the broader the Open Group library that you'll find on the homepage of our website www.opengroup.org So what do we have in the new edition? We have a number of different formats which is also a great step forward we have the HTML format, we have a PDF and we have the published books in groupings and you can buy everything or you can buy groupings but so those of you who like the books and there are a lot of those they sell very well, we still have those but there's also a lot of you who have said to us over the years it would be great to have this more digital format, more readily approachable format so that's what we focused on in the HTML version and when it comes to what's in there you'll see a lot of familiar things what you know and love about Togaf in previous iterations so the ADM, there of course, catalogs, diagrams, matrices all the things that you know and love from the previous versions of the Togaf standard but you'll also see how we've reorganised the fundamental content and basically there you have the ADM right in the centre there but we have the starting with of course the concepts the introduction and then we have the ADM in the middle and we have applying the ADM and ADM techniques and architecture content and enterprise architecture capability and governance now these are essentially the six parts of the fundamental content as we've reorganised it and as I said that's the fundamental content but also part of the 10th edition is this expanded domain specific guidance and we've got 20 new series guides general guidance, establishing the EA team agile EA, digital enterprise, business architecture, security architecture data and information architecture and reference models and methods and there's more information on all of these of course on our website but this is to give you an idea of the type of content that we've got in the new version if you're wondering how to get started this really is a great way this would be our recommended approach you'll find it on our website, in fact the link is right here on the slide and it's an introduction to the TAGF standard 10th edition and it really is a great place to start include some recommendations on how to use it but it also it's just it will be it's the go-to place to start if you're not one of the people who's been infamately intimately familiar with building the 10th edition so do look out for that white paper freely available on our website the digital edition I said something about that earlier so to say a little bit more about it you can click on any of these things on the screen depending on what you're interested in so you know get certified on the right hand side if that's your interest, practitioner guidance you know if you want to establish a team that's something we hear a lot about how do I actually build an EA team EA practice inside my organization how do I go about starting that wherever you want to start you can click on any of these in the digital edition and it'll take you to the appropriate place in the 10th edition we've also added an ability for you to provide feedback directly through the HTML version on the digital edition so look for that little icon on the side there and you can submit feedback and that will get taken into account along with the other suggestions that we get from surveys and from members of the forum that will get taken into consideration as we evolve the 10th edition and specifically the series guides going forward as I said the TOGAF standard 10th edition is part of a much larger EA content in the open group library and you'll find all sorts of things in there Archimate modelling language for example and the exchange file format that allows you to exchange models that are created in any tool that meets the specification for the exchange file format you can exchange those models there's really great stuff in there and guides, white papers if you're not familiar with it go and take a look and if you haven't looked for a while you might be surprised at how much new content there is in there looking ahead to some of the content we'll be obviously improving things as we go on we're not stopping here and the most of the activity is happening around the development of more series guides because that is as I say the guidance to how to that's what people seem to want to hear the fundamental content largely stable doesn't mean it will never change of course but it's largely stable and it's the series guides where most of the activity will happen going ahead so we were then able to announce so it was back in April we announced the availability of the standard and we said that certification would follow changes to the certification program would follow in the coming months and then in October we were able to announce the details of that program so we now have something called the TOGAF certification portfolio that includes certifications and credentials that are built both on the TOGAF standard 9.2 and the TOGAF standard 10th edition so it really is a blend here it's a portfolio of certification standard so TOGAF 10th edition certification in itself it doesn't necessarily exist and I'll explain what I mean by that in just a few seconds so this is what we had up to October this year we had TOGAF 9 certification TOGAF 9 foundation certification and TOGAF 9 certified foundation with a number of credentials business architecture, TOGAF essentials up to date knowledge and integrating risk and security this is what we now have having added and created our TOGAF certification portfolio so we've created three new certifications there down the bottom the business architecture foundation the enterprise architecture foundation and the enterprise architecture practitioner and we also have a number of other credentials that are that are kind of domain or interest specific we have ones for agile specialist digital specialist, apply practitioner and leader and that really depends there's much more information on our website but that really depends on what your interest is what your career path has been or is likely to be as to which of those are most relevant for you we've also introduced something here called the applied practitioner badge which is for those individuals who are certified and you have completed your learning studies with through an accredited training provider at the open group and these are basically these learning studies are basically practical exercises that allow you to demonstrate that you've understood the material and you can apply the material and it's a mandatory element in fact of all the accredited training for these new certifications so it gives an extra way of saying this is an applied practitioner credential an extra way of saying that you actually know how to apply the standard not just know it's content so that's something new and we may well add to that later big question we always get asked is I'm Tokyo 9 certified how do I get to the newer versions of the certification well the answer is we do have a bridge exam so it does provide an easier more straightforward route to certification under the new certifications if you are Tokyo 9 certified so if you are Tokyo 9 certified do look at the bridge approach you could also just take the new certifications from scratch that's obviously an option for anyone but if you are part way through Tokyo 9 certification don't worry carry on go through the rest of that certification and training and get certified and then look to the bridge to update to the latest versions if you so choose but you know Tokyo 9 certification will not be stopping we'll be continuing that for as long as there is any demand for it and there is considerable demand right now so something else that was new and announced at the end of October an update, minor update to the Archimate specification so we're now at Archimate 3.2 and really the change that was made there the changes that were made were in these four areas notations definitions the metamodel structure and some relationship derivations now I'm not going to go into detail on this the last episode of Toolkit Tuesday that we had two weeks ago was focused on what's new in this standard so if you're interested in that then do go to the recording of that and you can find out more you can also see more on the website but I'm flagging it up as something that those of you who do use Archimate and that's a growing number of you I know out there then you may be interested to know that there have been some some improvements made and minor modification to the standard the last thing I want to talk about today is something that was also announced at the end of October we had a big month then but very very exciting because it represents a lot of work over many years but we have been able to announce the IT5 standard version 3 delighted to do so it really is a great piece of work and makes a fundamental shift in the IT for IT standard and where it is focused so the IT for IT standard has traditionally been what we call the standard for running the business of IT well in today's world where digital is so important this has really been turned around to focus very much on the modern automated digital delivery model the core of the standard we have the product backbone now it's all about data driven approach it's still organised around the value streams with some terminology changing but basically we've really really upped the focus of the standard to be on digital so that you can really use it to manage digital products and services and it's a great piece of work as I say pretty much brand new at this point and you'll be hearing more about it including I hope a specific episode of this on Toolkit Tuesday early in 2023 but for now just a few ideas a few points about it as I say you'll still see the value streams and therefore the end-to-end value chain that we've had as part of IT for IT in the past but it's very much focused on optimising for digital we've still got the capability model and we still have model information and data and very very much data driven and automation, integration flow all of these things will be helped by following version 3 of the standard in fact when we announced it our current chair of the open group governing board Lars Rossen who has been really the architect of the IT for IT standard from day one said with version 3 we finally got to something that delivers on the vision that he and the early founders of the group had way back when and it really is a great step forward and I encourage you to look at it and a great thing is it's all documented in the ARCUMATE specification so those of you who are familiar with the ARCUMATE modeling language this will suit you down to the ground and it represents another example of how the open group we're pulling together are standards so that they are more obviously usable together which was obviously the topic of last times Toolkit Tuesday the portfolio of digital open standards so if you want to know more about that look for that too that's also another significant development this year but I haven't covered it in detail today because we've just covered it in the last episode but sticking with IT for IT for just a moment what's coming next is something called the IT for IT standard magnificent 7 use cases so the forum has identified 7 different use cases 7 different personas and what they might be interested in and how using the IT for IT standard can be of use to people in that situation they're very useful they're a bit of fun too and they will be coming very soon so watch out for those so complete with the new version of the standard the magnificent 7 use cases when they come and an update to the IT for IT certification program to cover version 3.0 of the standard there's a lot going on in the IT for IT standard world and encourage you to look for it it will absolutely be of great value to you no question so that is IT for my whistle stop tour of what's happened with the enterprise architects toolkit updates in the in the coming well over the last few months so I will stop sharing my screen and I will revert from presenter to host mode again so thank you for sticking with that it's a whistle stop whistle stop tour as I say some of those things have been covered you'll find episodes covering nearly all of those things on toolkit Tuesday you'll also find more information on the open group website so do feel free to go there all that remains for me to do today is to tell you that we are taking a end of year break for toolkit Tuesday so this episode December 13th will be the last for this year for 2022 but look for something new and fresh in on Tuesdays in January I won't say more than that for now but look for something different over the course of January and then toolkit Tuesday as you know it next episode like this we'll pick up again on February 14th so easy date to remember Valentine's Day February 14th 2023 will be the next toolkit Tuesday but we'll have some interesting stuff for you on the Tuesdays in January going forward one last thing to also put on your radar is our next the open groups next quarterly event will be a virtual event an entirely virtual event this time from January 30th through February 1st so a 3 day event and the main one of the continuing themes for next year is EA and sustainability and that will be part of the theme for our virtual event at the end of January so watch out for more on that from the open group that you haven't opted out of receiving the mails if you want to have more information on that event and others and we look forward to you joining us on that hopefully but also on the next toolkit Tuesday and in the meantime thank you to all our presenters that we've had so far in season 2 and again to Paul Herman for his EA minutes and a big thank you again to you most especially to attendees who take the time out of your day to join us we hope you find them valuable please leave some comments in the chat before you go today and I look forward to joining you joining us at a future event meanwhile have a great rest of the year and I hope that the end of 2022 and the start of 2023 are all that you would wish for yourself and your families and thank you for joining us I'm Steve Nunn this has been Toolkit Tuesday