Management professionals are now seeing the value of being TOGAF certified.
Many view it as a way of improving and enhancing their career prospects. Employers too tend to look favourably on potential employees with TOGAF Certification. So a qualification involving TOGAF is becoming a valuable asset.
Generally, the program of TOGAF certification is aimed at architecture service providers and tools vendors. By their involvement they can assert that the services and products that they offer will support the enterprise architect using ADM (Architecture Development Method).
Again it is important to point out that the ADM will complement and can also be used in conjunction with all the main TOGAF framework systems.
So why become TOGAF certified?
Primarily, it will offer evidence to employers and fellow professionals that you have a level of commitment to enterprise architecture as a specific, management discipline. Obviously, it also demonstrates that you have acquired essential knowledge of TOGAF as an industry standard framework and proven method for implementing enterprise architecture
No doubt you are aware that it is The Open Group that publishes the directory of TOGAF Certified individuals and they are also responsible for the issuing of certificates.
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Benefits of TOGAF Certification
The prime benefit of the program is that it enables businesses and organizations to determine a standard, open method for IT architecture. This really avoids the attachment to the established methods adopted by the major consulting firms and their enterprise architecture deliverables.
This means that customers can build their IT architecture systems on an open, standard method, that is accepted by industry as a whole; a system that will work with all of the major frameworks.
They are then able to acquire training, tools and consultancy services with great confidence owing to the adherence to TOGAF standards.
Therefore, for tool vendors and service providers, TOGAF certification offers an opportunity to prove that their products and services do in fact support and utilise the methodology and product groups that TOGAF approves. Also, all the current services and products are included in the Certified Products Register.
Togaf 9 Certification
The TOGAF 9 Certification program for People has some specific goals.
It hopes to ensure that;
- individuals are appropriately knowledgeable about TOGAF 9.0
- that they have demonstrated a foundational degree of knowledge on this subject
- and that they can use their TOGAF 9 certification to help them progress in a career as an Enterprise Architect
