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Zachman Certified™ |
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In response to massive industry request about who (or what) Zachman International authorizes to use The Zachman Famework™, or talk about with some level of certification, we are proud to announce the newly formalized and industry ratified Zachman Certified™ program. Zachman International offers three distinct certifications (announced November 2005): |
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Architecture is Architecture is Architecture |
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Architecture Is Architecture Is ArchitectureBy
John A. Zachman March 2007 Reprint
© 2007-2008 John A. Zachman, Zachman International
There appears to be a gross misunderstanding about Architecture, particularly in the information technology community. Many people seem to think that an implementation, an end result, is Architecture. To use an Architecture and Construction example, many people think that the Roman Coliseum is Architecture. |
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The Zachman Framework™: A Concise Definition |
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The Zachman Framework™ is a schema - the intersection between two historical classifications that have been in use for literally thousands of years. The first is the fundamentals of communication found in the primitive interrogatives: What, How, When, Who, Where, and Why. It is the integration of answers to these questions that enables the comprehensive, composite description of complex ideas. The second is derived from reification, the transformation of an abstract idea into an instantiation that was initially postulated by ancient Greek philosophers and is labeled in The Framework: Identification, Definition, Representation, Specification, Configuration and Instantiation. |
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