Change & Requirements

Question 1 of 8

Aurora Mercantile is a national specialty retailer whose entire architecture was developed for a store-only business. Last week its board approved a strategic pivot to a fully omnichannel operating model, and as the firm's Chief Architect you have logged the resulting change request in Phase H. Your assessment is stark: the pivot invalidates core assumptions across the Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains, and the value the original architecture was built to deliver no longer matches where the company is heading. The store-operations director, anxious to avoid disruption, is lobbying to absorb the shift as a routine in-place update so her teams are not destabilised. A delivery lead, conscious of the timeline, would rather treat it as a contained extension of the current model. The board expects a recommendation on how the change is dispositioned.

Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best Phase H disposition for this change?

Classify it as re-architecting and put the requirement through a full ADM cycle beginning with Architecture Vision.Defer the change to preserve delivery momentum and continue monitoring the technology and business environment until the next scheduled architecture review.Classify it as incremental change and run a partial ADM cycle to extend the current architecture toward the new model.Handle it as a simplification through change management and update the affected architecture artifacts in place.