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ADM Iteration Planner

Pick an ADM iteration pattern (baseline first, target first, capability based, etc.) that fits your engagement's scope, speed and risk.

ADM-wideDerived from TOGAF

TOGAF iteration cycles run as a loop, not a one-way line

The ADM runs as four iteration cycles that pass work round a ring: Capability frames Development, Development feeds Transition Planning, planning is held by Governance, and Governance reopens the next round. The planner picks how many phases run inside each cycle.

Iteration is the point of the ADM. Capability, Development, Transition Planning and Governance are cycles you revisit, not stages you finish. Drop the closing edge and the architecture is a one-off document that ages the day it ships.

TOGAF iteration cycles run as a loop, not a one-way line Four cycle panels form a clockwise ring around a central label reading The ADM iteration loop. At the top is Cycle 1, Architecture Capability (Preliminary and Phase A). Blue arrows labelled scope and vision, target and gaps, and roadmap to assure carry the work clockwise to Cycle 2, Architecture Development (Phases B, C and D) on the right, which takes the single red spine because it creates the architecture; Cycle 3, Transition Planning (Phases E and F) at the bottom; and Cycle 4, Architecture Governance (Phases G and H) on the left. A red arrow labelled lessons reopen the round closes the ring from Governance back to Capability. A red note warns that dropping it leaves a one-off document. 1Architecture CapabilityCapability, scope and vision setPreliminary and Phase A 2Architecture DevelopmentBusiness, data, app, tech designedPhases B, C and D 3Transition PlanningGaps sequenced to operable statesPhases E and F 4Architecture GovernanceChange held to the contractPhases G and H The ADM iteration loop Four cycles you revisit, not four stages you finish scope and vision target and gaps roadmap to assure lessons reopen the round The closing edge is the iteration.Drop it and the architecture is a one-off document that ages the day it ships, instead of a practice the next round reopens.