Scenario: Florian Flowers BV
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Florian Flowers BV is an international agricultural company exporting flowers and seeds worldwide.
Florian is headquartered in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and has sales and distribution centers in
over 60 countries worldwide. Several of these centers include administrative, manufacturing, and
research facilities.
To achieve full integration of their research capabilities with their development centers located in
various climate zones, Florian wants to develop strong self-directed teams in each location. Florian
also wants to define new business models that are profitable while reducing their impact on the
environment. Florian management is deeply committed to ensuring that the company is a world
leader in socially responsible seed development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability
through environmentally friendly operating processes.
Florians international operations are subject to various legal and regulatory requirements. In areas
such as genetically modified seeds, governmental controls are strictly enforced and compliance is
critical. Recently a competitor was heavily fined for violating the regulations in a country where it
was developing pest-resistant seeds.
The Governing Board is concerned, and as a result has approved the expenditure of resources to
establish an Enterprise Architecture program. They have requested to be informed about the status
of projects that could impact regulatory compliance. They also want to enable the corporate legal
staff and auditors to analyze proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal
guidelines for a given location. In addition, the research organization should be able to see that the
architecture is appropriate for its needs.
TOGAF 9 has been mandated as the guiding framework for the development and evolution of the
Enterprise Architecture practice.
Refer to the Florian Flowers BV Scenario
Florian management has engaged you as the Lead Consultant to assess the current situation.
You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an
architecture that addresses the needs of all these parties.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
A.
Depending on the nature of the architecture, a set of models should be created that can be used
to ensure that the system will be compliant with the local regulations. Stakeholders should be able
to view the models to see that their concerns have been properly addressed.
B.
Each architecture activity should be developed using a consistent modeling approach that is
uniform across all architecture projects. Each architecture should be defined based on this fixed set
of models so that all concerned parties can examine the models to ensure that their issues and
concerns have been accessed.
C.
For those groups that have sufficient power and level of interest, a special report should be
created that summarizes the key features of the architecture with respect to the particular location.
Each of these reports should reflect the stakeholders’ requirements.
D.
It would be beneficial to develop a stakeholder map that allows the architects to define groups of
stakeholders that share common concerns. A set of views should be defined that addresses the
concerns each group. Architecture models can then be created for each view to address the
stakeholders’ concerns.