TotalComms is a telecommunications company formed from the merging of other 2
telecommunication companies. The business operating model has been unified, the TOGAF 9
Architecture Board approved the outline Implementation and Migration Plan the detailed migration
planning must know be approved. Your help is needed to work on the migration planning with all the
key stakeholders to achieve an agreement.
Refer to the scenario above
You are the Lead Architect asked to describe accordingly to TOGAF 9 the best way to address the
following activities:
• The way the migration planning is conducted.
• What is going to be implemented.
• The stakeholders involved in the implementation.
• The definition of the deliverables to use
Choose one of the following answers

A.
The Chief Architect will conduct the Migration planning and then share it with the other domain
architects.
The migration plan will be formed by a list of projects, their priority, their costs and a
recommendation on how to proceed. After the plan is shared with the Architectural Board members
and any observation that may raise incorporated in the plan, any individual project will go in front of
the board for the approval for resources for the next project increment. A GANT chart will be
included to be used as a roadmap.

B.
The Migration planning will be conducted as a series of steps: confirming and then coordinating
the corporate management frameworks involved; establishing clear business value for the
deliverables; creating detailed resource estimates for the work to do; define priority of the work,
sequence and then the Transition Architectures. After this, an Implementation and Migration Plan
can be confirmed. The Portfolio Management, Operations Management and Business Planning
teams should be involved in the implementation of the major deliverables. Once these have been
completed, regular meetings will be done to enable the architecture to be kept up-to-date.

C.
Implementation and Migration Strategy will be used to define project plans focusing on scope,
time and budget. The business value of each project is assessed and Project Managers will prepare
submissions to the IT governance Board to ask for their funding and the Lead Architect will be active
part of the board. The collection of project roadmaps and plans will be used to detail the EA
Implementation and Migration Plan.

D.
This step will be conducted by the Enterprise Architecture team involving Business, Application,
Data, Technology, and Security architects. They will implement the Transition Architectures and
together will prioritize a list of activities and include the Architecture Building Blocks in an
Implementation and Migration Plan and Roadmap. After this, the comments on the deliverables
shared with lines of business and the members of the Executive Board are integrated, this to enable
the funding on the Enterprise Architecture work.