 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. Hello everyone, delighted that you can join us today. Thank you for taking time out of your day. We have a great topic today, the Togaf Standard 10th Edition and the Togaf Certification Corkfolio. So this is kind of munging two topics together really, both things that we get asked a lot about and we've had a Toolkit Tuesday on this before, but because of the level of interest and the questions we get, we're going to run it again and probably again at some point in the future. But before we get into that, as I say, thank you for taking time out wherever you are. Just a housekeeping point, my usual one for those who've become regulars here. The way we ask questions on Toolkit Tuesday is through the Q&A channel. So if you can't see that on your screen, then click on the three dots in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and you'll see the option to click on Q&A. So please use that for the questions, but please do use the chat channel for, well, it's already working and serves good purpose about the sound today. But do feel free to say hi to the other attendees today and we are hearing where you're from in the world. So let us know with all the crazy climate changes that are going around. People that are usually in dry sunny areas like me are in wet areas. So it's always great to hear where people are joining from. And to those of you who are watching this after the event in the comfort of your own home, then thank you for taking the time to do that too. So as I say, today's topic, the Togaf Standard 10th Edition and the Togaf Certification Portfolio. And to introduce us, talk us through this succinctly as you can, but it's a big topic. Is my colleague delighted to welcome back Andrew Josie. Andrew is our VP of Standards and Certification, the open group overseeing all the certification and testing programs that we have. He also manages the standards process for the open group, which is a key part of everything we do, to be honest. So since joining the company in 1996, Andrew has been closely involved with all of that standards, development, certification and testing and is largely responsible with some obviously with some great work from the membership and other colleagues in the open group for putting together the Togaf Certification Portfolio. So warm welcome back to Talk It Tuesday for Andrew Josie. Welcome Andrew. Thank you, Steve. Thanks. Let's get my screen sharing going here. Okay. So thank you. Good afternoon. Good morning, wherever you are for joining us today. I'm Andrew Josie. As Steve mentioned, I want to work for the open group and our standards and our certification business. We're going to be talking about the standard, the new standard, the Togaf Standard 10th Edition, and also the Togaf Certification Portfolio. So this talk has sort of two main themes. We're actually going to split it into three. So these are three takeaways I want to leave you with today. That's for an overview of the standard itself. Then we'll look at the certification portfolio and we'll look at the paths within the certification portfolio depending on where you're coming from, whether you're studying the Togaf Version 9.2 or the new 10th Edition, and then we'll look at the new learning paths that have been specifically added for the 10th Edition. So let's start off by taking a very brief look at the Togaf Standard 10th Edition. We've got limited time that we can cover in Toolkit Tuesday. So I've had to keep this fairly short. So I'm going to just sort of draw on a few of the key features. First of all, what we heard when we introduced the 10th Edition, what we needed before we introduced that, we have a lot of feedback on the previous versions that practitioners wanted more guidance, better guidance, and topical guidance. So that's one thing you will see. A key change is the updated modular structure, which is designed to facilitate extension, until we actually support us delivering further extended content in the future. So there's a lot of focus now on guidance, and I'll hopefully show that in the next couple of slides. Firstly, let's look at the modular structure and see where the standard actually fits. If you go to the Open Group site and you run along the top of the homepage, you will see on the right there is a link to what we call the Open Group Library. And if you go in there, you will see basically those top five boxes on the front page of the Open Group Library. And you can hop into the first of those, which is actually what we call the Togaf Library. And that contains all of our enterprise architecture related content. And within that resides the standard itself. There are a number of other things that we include in the library around the standard. So there's white papers, various guides, reference cards, et cetera. But at the heart of the library is the Togaf standard. Now the Togaf standard has evolved from being a single document, you know, with the version 9.2 standard, it was a single document into a set of documents. And there are actually two categories that we basically you can put those documents into. The first one on the left there you see is what we call the Togaf fundamental content. This is intended to be stable and enduring. And it basically corresponds to what was the version 9.2 standard. But it's been evolved and it's also been modularized. And I'll come back and show you a little bit about that. And also we've added some more what we intend to be dynamic content in the form of Togaf series guides. So what we're seeing there, the fundamental content is pretty much the what and the Togaf series guides are intended as the how tos. There's a lot of new guidance that we've added. If we look at this in a slightly different form here, here we sort of break each document down into a little circle to emphasize the modular structure. We have on the left here the six Togaf fundamental contents, documents and then we introduce there are 20 Togaf series guides at the moment. Now we expect this set to grow over time. So today you can see we have a total of 26 documents in the 10th edition. But I know there's going to be a few more documents added quite soon because the architecture forum, the open groups architecture forum that develops and maintains the Togaf standard is actually working on additional content, additional Togaf series guides. And the idea is that we will grow this set so it will be further extended. Now we package this set in a number of different ways. So you can go to the open group web and you can get the standard available in multiple formats. So we have an online digital edition, which has a graphical front end, which is sort of the bottom left there. And if you click into that, you can also get into the textual form of the online digital edition. We also have PDF downloads, which I don't show here. We also have hard copy that you can order from your sort of main book sellers. Now continuity has been a key driver. So what we've tried to do with the 10th edition is continue the character, the core character of the standard and retain that in the fundamental content. So if you look at the fundamental content, you will see things that you recognize. So if you're familiar with the Togaf standard, you will see the architecture development, you will see the ADM cycle. You will see things such as catalogs, diagrams, matrices. You'll see these models about the enterprise segment and capability partitioning and so on. That's all been retained in the fundamental content. What we have done, as I mentioned, with the fundamental content, so what was the version 9.2 standard is to revise and reorganize that. So we've actually split that out into a set of related documents. Again, that's to support future evolution. Should we decide that we do need to change them? It's more flexible to actually adjust individual parts. You can see the fundamental content sits within the Togaf library and is supported by the Togaf series guides. The Togaf series guides, as I mentioned, they provide the how-to. So they cover a range of topics and that goes from general how-to guidance, guidance on establishing an architecture team through to reference architectures and so on. I'm going to give you a quick overview of the type of documents in the next two slides. So as I mentioned, we have general how-to. So there are some guidance for practitioners. There's guidance for using the Togaf standard in a digital enterprise. We have domain specifics. We're particularly strong on business architecture. So there's about six different business architecture series guides out there. So a lot of extended guidance, data and information architecture. There's agile methods using the Togaf ADM with agility and so on. And we also have reference models. And there's a particular Togaf series guide just dedicated to how you establish and evolve NEA team. So you can go to these. If you went to the online digital edition, you can actually see all of these guide standards, sort of left-hand navigation bar of the standard. And you can hop into those. Now, how do you get started with all this? Well, the good news is we have a white paper. And this is a great resource if you're just coming, even if you're coming at the standard for the first time, this explains a lot of the motivation for how we've actually structured the standard. Also, if you're coming at it, you're very familiar with it. This will actually give you release notes about the changes and things. And actually includes a section on how to get started using the standard, coming from a couple of different viewpoints. So it's a very good resource if you want to get a start and don't want to dive into the, I think it's about 1,500 pages is the current total set of the 26 documents, but wanted to pick up like a short 10 pager. This will be a good start. As I mentioned, we have an online digital edition. This is intended to make it easier to navigate the expanded content. Obviously, for 26 documents, you need to have some assistance with navigation. So we produce both a graphical entry point. And then if you click through that, you can go down into a textual edition of the standard as search capabilities. As I mentioned down the left navigation bar, there's navigation points into the individual documents. One thing we've included in the digital edition is the ability to give feedback. So we have on every page, there's a little sort of bug comment symbol and you can click on that and that pops up a form that basically you can input some feedback on that page. And that will go back to the standard developers and goes back into their bug tracker. So that's been very successful. I think we're up to 40, 50 sort of bits of feedback we've had from the public. So that was something new we wanted to do was to make it easier to take feedback on the standard. So that was a brief look at the standard. What I wanted to do now is to talk about the Kogaf certification portfolio. So this is the training, the learning, the education, the actual learning paths that we've sort of built around the standard. So if you want to become an enterprise architect, become a business architect, take on certain specialties, this is the education sort of path that we put together. So let's take a look at the portfolio. So what does it cover now? One thing you should know is the portfolio covers both the Togaf standard version 9.2 and the Togaf standard 10th edition. We often get asked how long are you going to support Togaf 9 certification? And the answer to that is we will continue to support that going forward. There's a lot of market demand for certifications against Togaf 9 certification. And we will continue to support that. We've introduced obviously certifications for the Togaf standard 10th edition and also some new learning paths. So if you are Togaf 9 certified, there are some forward paths. Now, given the broad range of material in the Togaf standard 10th edition, it sort of didn't really make sense to try and make a single certification. So another question we often get is, well, why is there no Togaf 10 foundation and Togaf 10 certified like you have for Togaf 9? Well, that's really because there's a broad set of material now. And what we wanted to do was actually to divine multiple bodies of knowledge and multiple learning paths that related to specific skill sets and competences drawn from the standard. So what we have done is to identify a number of what we call bodies of knowledge. So that's sort of groups of information related sets of skill sets and competences from the standard for specific topics. So if you look at this diagram going along the bottom from left to right, you see we've defined a body of knowledge for BA, for business architecture, for EA, enterprise architecture. We've defined a couple of specialist bodies of knowledge. Now, these relate to specific new topics that we've introduced in the 10th edition. So we have an agile specialist and we have a digital specialist. We've also defined a body of knowledge for EA leaders. And the idea is with the one on the right, you know, there could be future bodies of knowledge defined and future learning paths. So what we've got is one standard has led to multiple bodies of knowledge and that's leading to multiple certifications. And I'll go through those in a minute. So this is another picture of the sort of high level view outlining the elements of the portfolio. So in here, you can see both the certifications based on Togaf 9, which are in white and the new ones that are based on the 10th edition. We also have some other boxes, which are in gray and italic. They are for what we call Togaf certification credentials. And I'll explain a little bit more about that, but it's basically the size of the chunk of learning. We have sort of modularized some things down. It's a smaller chunks of learning, which can be taken in a shorter time versus a full sort of multi-day certification. So we'll just talk through the learning paths. So if you're familiar with the current Togaf 9 certification program, you know, you will study the version 9.2 standard. There are sort of, as you come down, there are two options. You can go for foundation, just taking the part one, or you can do what we call a combined exam that takes you to Togaf 9 certified. So you could take that all in one chunk or you do it stepwise. Okay, so that's the current program that we have the Togaf version 9.2. And what we've introduced now for the 10th edition, as I mentioned, we're coming at it slightly differently based on skill sets and competencies coming down from the 10th edition. We have two main paths. That's one for the enterprise architect and one for the business architect. Again, for the enterprise architect, very similar to Togaf 9, you can do it either stepwise. Take the part one exam followed by the part two to get what we call the enterprise architecture practitioner. Focus now on being a practitioner, the person who actually goes out there and develops and sustains the EA. Well, and you could also do that as a combined exam. So if you'd say, well, I'm not gonna do it stepwise, I just wanna take both parts on a single day, you can do that. And then the other thing, if you look back on the bottom line there, you can see there is a path from being Togaf 9 certified across to being the new Togaf enterprise architecture practitioner. And that's by what we call the bridge, the bridge exam, so there is a bridging path. On the right, we have business architecture. At this time, there was just a foundation level of business architecture. So we haven't gone beyond foundation yet. Obviously that could change if the material is developed and added to the Togaf standard 10th edition to allow us to support that. I mentioned also there were some specialisms. So also there are paths that can lead to now, this is what I meant by the smaller chunks of learning. We actually call these certification credentials. If you look at the bottom there, these are actually different shape badges. So these tend to be three hours upwards. I would estimate there's about, I think there's about nine units. So you can typically do these easily in a day. We have introduced agile specialist, digital specialist and the enterprise architecture leader. Now there is a prerequisite, but the prerequisite is what we call Togaf foundation and up. Now that can be Togaf 9 foundation or it can be the new Togaf EA foundation. So the idea is we've introduced learning paths for individuals who've also spent their time, currently being Togaf 9 certified. So they can choose to take on these new learning paths from there. So let's look briefly at the certifications and certification credentials. It's a very quick look at this. Obviously I do cover this in more depth in other sessions, but today we're trying to keep it fairly short. These are the three certifications. So by certification I mean sort of, it's a multi-day amount of study. You're talking sort of two days for foundation and then maybe three days for the next level. So it's not hours, it's more days rather than hours. This is the body of knowledge for the Togaf enterprise architect learning path. As I mentioned, there are 26 documents. Obviously we don't have to learn all the content of 26. It actually drawn from a set of about 12. The scissors actually indicate that we take sections of the document. It doesn't mean you have to know all 12. There are, as I mentioned, there are two ways to approach the year practitioner. Either if you're coming from Togaf 9, you've got the bridging path, which is on the top there. Or if you're coming new, you can do it stepwise if you wish or go straight to the year practitioner level. We also have an additional badge for this. This relates to the practitioner element and some actually practical exercises that are built within accredited training courses. Now I'll mention that very briefly a little bit later. Enterprise Architecture Foundation, just to cover what this is. Obviously this is about, as the diagram shows, it's covering basic concepts, foundations, sort of concepts, getting the common language. Obviously going up in the level to the practitioner, you're taking on the ability to analyze and apply the Togaf standard. But as I mentioned, that's targeted at people who will be developing, sustaining, and using any, the actual enterprise architects themselves. As I mentioned, there's a bridge. So if you're coming from Togaf 9 certified and you wish to update your qualifications, there is a path to do that. We've tried to recognize your existing sort of investment in your certification. So it's a slightly different syllabus. It recognizes some of the investment you've made. The exam is a bit smaller. It's like a one hour exam compared to if you're starting a fresh, you have to take a 60 minute exam followed by a 90 minute exam. So we do try to recognize the investment that individuals have made in their Togaf 9 certification. As I mentioned, there's an applied practitioner badge. So if you attend an accredited training course and you complete a set of practical learning studies, what we call, these are actually sort of exercises, not an exam, it's not a test. It's more just like a set of exercises where you can sort of apply the standard in different ways and you can look at how it's been applied. It's based on some of the Togaf series guides specifically and you can earn the badge that way. Business architecture, now this is the body of knowledge. It's, as I mentioned, it's a different subset. As I mentioned, there were quite a few business architecture Togaf series guides available now and those are in the body of knowledge for business architecture. There are a couple of paths to business architecture. You can go afresh or though we do have an existing certification credential and we will be providing a migration path for individuals who've already got that credential. So they will basically have to just do a top up. I think it's about four additional modules over what they've done previously to get to the new foundation. Again, like the EA Foundation, this is really about fundamental concepts, getting the basic understanding, getting the language. One good thing about our business architecture course is we have a lot of good techniques that you can come away with after doing the studying. As I mentioned, we have a very rich set of Togaf series guides on business architecture. So it's particularly useful if you want to come away from a course and then have five or six different techniques you can apply to develop a business architecture. Mentioning very briefly here, we have digital specialist, a certification credential. This focuses in on a couple of new Togaf series guides in the 10th edition that focus on digital. So you can, this is about applying the Togaf standard to support a digital enterprise. Obviously I'm going through these very quickly here at the end. And we also have an agile specialist one. Again, there are a couple of new Togaf series guides that focus specifically on agile agility, applying the EA with agility, ADM as with agile sprints and so on again. So there's a particular certification credential, a particular learning path you can take there. And then the final certification credential we've introduced, just about to introduce, in fact, we've been working on the beta on this and this is coming out very soon now is what we call the enterprise architecture leader. So that's based again on a specific Togaf series guide. So anyway, I've given you the very whistle stop tour here today of what we've got with the standard and the certification portfolio to support it and then also the new learning paths. Okay, so back to Steve and then we'll be able to take some questions. Yes, absolutely. Thank you very much. It's a lot of content to get through in a short period of time and I know you've given much longer explanations and talks about this and we're always happy to get the word out. But let's, in the interest of time, let's move straight forward. I'm going to combine a couple of questions into one. People at different stages of their learning. One is, well, basically, will my Togaf 9 certification expire? And the second part of that question is, I've been training for Togaf 9 certification. What do I do now? Well, firstly, Togaf 9 certification doesn't expire. So that's the good news on that. There's no sort of expiry date. It always, our certifications basically apply to the body of knowledge. So they are, you know, it is valid. You train and you've got certified in Togaf 9. So you still know about it. It's not that you don't know about it in two years time. You still know about it. And if you're, so if you're currently doing Togaf 9 training, obviously you can continue. You can continue and you can continue down the paths for Togaf 9 certification. And if you wish to then update, you could go to the bridge. Or obviously you could then, or you could look over and take a look at the new syllabus from maybe the enterprise architecture track and see whether or not that's, that's suitable. We've just published a new study guide for free a foundation. We'll probably have another study guide for practitioner, but that will probably be about another six months away, I should think at the moment. Right. And on that point, question just come in. I'm 9.2 certified. What's the cost of the bridge exam? Retail cost is $375. Obviously if you're doing it with, you know, obviously if you attend a training course, then that's accredited and then the voucher, the exam is actually included with the accredited training. Right. Obviously we don't, we don't set the prices for training courses. That's down with trainers. So the question about the standard itself is, well, it's really around naming, I guess. Why is there no Togaf 10 foundation or Togaf 10 practitioner? Okay. Well, this goes back to the, as I mentioned, the standard is very broad now. And so if we were going to do a foundation across all 26, as it is at the moment, it would be a very shallow foundation. So what instead we've done is to basically identify competency sort of base topics or skill sets related to skill sets. So what we've done is to look at which parts of the, of those 26 volumes would be most applicable to for being an enterprise architect, which is that we came up with a set of 12 and we sort of sliced that into a syllabus. And similarly we did that for a business architect. We've done that for an agile specialist. So basically we've gone around the 26, sort of identifying, you know, particularly what we call bodies of knowledge. So from within there, if we just did Togaf 10 foundation, as I mentioned, we could go very broad, but very shallow. Okay. And that takes me to another question that's come in from a training perspective actually, which is, it's a couple of things combined, but essentially it's around the Togaf series guides and their relevance to the exam. And ultimately the question is, will the new Togaf series guides be automatically relevant for the exam? Well, again, we have this sort of middle layer or something between the standard and the certification, which we call the body of knowledge. And so that actually is a document. You can think of it as a syllabus really. So it is what we call formally a set of conformance requirements. So that actually identifies specific documents, specific versions of the document and specific sections of the document related to the learning outcomes. So we will say, so for example, a new Togaf series guides get added that will not impact that existing syllabus. Now we may revise the syllabus later to include things from a new Togaf series guide if we thought it was particularly relevant or we wanted to, or we might define a new body of knowledge. Maybe there's a bunch of information that comes in that expands the data architecture information and we decide we need to have a data architect certification or a data architect certification credential. So the idea is we should be able to develop and evolve the standard and also retain what we have in the certification program. So we tried to sort of break the tight coupling in a way. In a way it was almost holding each other back sometimes because people would say, oh well, we can't change the standard because we've got the certification and vice versa. So what we tried to do is to allow the standard to continue to grow, evolve and change that we have a way just to make sure that what we've defined in our body of knowledge is obviously easily identifiable. And we will make sure that those versions of a document that are referenced in a body of knowledge is still available. It's not suddenly they will be deprecated and disappear. They will be there because obviously being referenced in the certification means we need to keep that version of the document available. And two quick questions to wrap up. We're getting close to time. One is can we study what is there self-study available for the business architecture? Yes, there's self-study available for the business architecture. In fact, we've just published a new study guide. I think it was a couple of weeks ago. So there's what we call an EA foundation study guide that's just been published and also a BA foundation study guide that's been available. There's also what we call online self-study that's been available since October. So you can go to the open group shop and you can look at all these things and you can see there that we've got a couple of options. So we do have online self-study for everything right now. So obviously you can also get accredited training from our accredited training course providers. And I think there's about 15 or more now who are starting to offer courses based on the new certifications for the Togov Standard 10th edition. So one of the questions there was, is there on self-study for Bridge? Yes, there is. Right, great. Thank you. You covered that one. So the last question, it's really someone checking their understanding, I guess. Are there presently four bodies of knowledge? I've got to count them up. Yeah, I'm thinking through that. Yeah, well, there are in fact at the moment if you went to our online, the library and you looked at Togov certification you will see we have a couple of documents. There are basically, there's a single document that we call the Togov certification conformance requirements, I think it's version four. And that's called multi-level. It's called multi-something. And that contains BA as well as EA, but it doesn't contain the Bridge. The Bridge sits in a separate document, partly because at some point we may wish to deprecate the Bridge. And so there's sort of two documents there. So they cover EA, BA and the Bridge. Then there's another document that covers Agile specialists, another one that covers digital specialists and another one that covers EA leader. So I think that was, was it five at the moment? Yeah. Right, okay, okay. And once just come in the last one, I'll take it. Is it required to take a class for the Bridge? No, you can self-study for the Bridge. What we would like to do is to produce some further study guides, but those all take time and... Yeah, so currently we've just got the foundation study guys, but we do have online self-studies. You can basically go online and obviously they're not books, it's more, you know, it's in a mood, what we call the Moodles and LMS. And you basically can look through some slides with commentary and study that way. Obviously, you can also download the conformance requirements. And if you wish, you can look at the syllabus that way. The, all the conformance requirements that we call the make-up-the-body analogy are all freely available in the Togoff Library, which is in but in the Open Group Library, so. Excellent, Andrew, we'll leave it there. As I said, you're always happy to get the word out along with the rest of us. So it's a topic that there's a lot of interest for, so which is great for everybody. So meanwhile, thank you for today's sharing. And we will hear from you again at some point in the future, I'm sure. Thanks, Steve. Thanks, Andrew. So that's it for today's topic on Talk It Tuesday. We will be back next week. We are running these weekly at the moment, a lot of topics to get through and we're building up towards the Group Summit in London. In-person meeting in London, where we're getting together lots of our forums and work groups promises to be a great event, April 17th through the 20th in London. If you're interested and can get there, we'd love to see you there. So next week's topic is actually going into our, the world of federal avionics and our face consortium activity. And which is really, some of you may have heard me say, it's really where a lot of the activities in industry-specific activities started was with the face consortium. And the title is Solving Common Problems through Open Software Standards. And presenting that will be my colleague Alicia Taylor, who is the face consortium program director. So please join us next week. Even if you're not in the avionics space, there are a lot of good learnings there, as I say, that apply to many, many industries. So please join us next week if you're available to. Sorry about the glitch in sound at the beginning. And hopefully we'll get some sound at the end. But if not, never mind, you'll have to imagine the tune. We'll see you next week. Thank you for watching Toolkit Tuesday.