 Naperville, IL, October 18, 2004 – The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) represents the accumulation of the work of many minds and many years. Its two volumes and desk book of rules and requirements for organizations to become “DoDAF compliant” can be confusing, time consuming, and daunting. DoDAF Wizdom: Planning, Managing and Executing Projects to Build Enterprise Architectures using the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (Wizdom Press, $49.95) by Dennis E. Wisnosky, Joseph Vogel and other “wizards” of Wizdom Systems, Inc., guides readers through a DoDAF project from start to finish.
Filled with real-world examples, illustrations, anecdotes, essential tips and decades of insight, DoDAF Wizdom describes the specific requirements for products under the variety of circumstances that the DoDAF is likely to meet, and what they’ll need to know to get over the humps. It introduces an 11-step methodology that demonstrates exactly how a DoDAF project should progress doing the amount of work that is no less and no more than necessary to get the job done. Finally, DoDAF Wizdom provides an actual working example that takes the reader through application of what we call the “Minimalist Methodology” using a made up DoD example.“This book is an important primer for the language of DoD architecting, the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF),” says Dan Appleton, CEO of consulting firm DaCOM. “It meets three critical tests. First, it presents the language in context (rules and regulations of the DOD) and in specifics (the details of DODAF products). Second, by providing a minimalist methodology, it shows us how to use the language to think about the complex issues facing the DOD. Third, it digs into the mysteries of models – an important aspect of the architecting language – explaining both the role of models and the importance of creating “good” models.”
Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is a framework of tools and methods, created to ensure that each of DoD agencies are inter-relatable between and among each organization’s operational, systems, and technical architecture views and organizational boundaries. “In the many DoDAF Seminars that I have taught over the last couple of years, my students kept asking for something more than slides that they could study when they went home,”said author Dennis E. Wisnosky. “DoDAF Wizdom is the result of their collective need for an actual methodology that will result in the consistency of output necessary to truly build executable architectures.”
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