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BIZBOK Guide and Public Excerpts
The Guild’s guide page, including current access information and public portions of the BIZBOK Guide. It is the best place to distinguish public excerpts from the member edition.
Open resourceBIZBOK Guide v15 — Public Glossary
The public glossary for checking formal definitions and avoiding the near-synonym problem that makes BA difficult to learn.
Open resourceBIZBOK Guide v15 — Public Introduction
A direct public PDF introducing the discipline, framework, core domains, and intended use of business architecture.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Guild — Free Public Resources
The Guild’s public landing page for introductory material, white papers, and other openly available resources.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Guild — Public White Papers
An index of public papers covering alignment, governance, metrics, organization design, risk, and related practice topics.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Guild Learning Center
The searchable Guild catalog for webinars, self-study modules, reference models, volunteer learning, and downloadable practice material. Use it when the topic is known but the relevant Guild product is not.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Guild: Recorded Webinar Index
The Guild’s topic index for recordings across core domains, extended mappings, governance, and interdisciplinary alignment. Availability varies by item.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Quick Guide
A compact Guild orientation to the discipline and its principal concepts. Use it before the longer BIZBOK introduction or formal metamodel material.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture: Setting the Record Straight
A concise public paper distinguishing business architecture from process work, solution design, and organization charts.
Open resourceBACM 1.0 — Specification PDF
The full public specification for the Business Architecture Core Metamodel.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Core Metamodel 1.0
The official OMG landing page for BACM, useful for understanding the formal relationships among business architecture concepts.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Metamodel Guide v2.1
The Guild guide to connected architecture relationships, including alignment with customer journeys, requirements, processes, and value creation. Use it to move beyond isolated maps toward a coherent knowledgebase.
Open resourceCore Business Architecture Domains Revisited
A Guild webinar on capability, value stream, information, and organization mapping, plus how the four domains reinforce one another. Useful when a practice has maps but no common foundation.
Open resourceBABOK Guide Glossary
A free official glossary for business analysis terminology. Use it to align language around needs, requirements, designs, value, stakeholders, and change before detailed work begins.
Open resourceBusiness Analysis Process
A practical university guide that connects business objectives and scope to stakeholder identification, elicitation, current and future states, requirements, and solution selection.
Open resourceBusiness Analysis Tools and Templates
Downloadable templates for requirements specifications, use cases, process work, estimation, and related analysis tasks, supported by concise how-to guidance.
Open resourceBusiness or Mission Analysis
SEBoK guidance for defining the problem or opportunity, mission, objectives, measures, operational context, and solution-space boundaries before requirements are committed.
Open resourceDesign Kit Methods
A broad collection of step-by-step human-centered methods for interviews, observation, synthesis, co-creation, prototyping, testing, and preparing a solution to scale.
Open resourceDigital Services Playbook
Thirteen practical plays that start with understanding what people need and the whole service experience, then connect discovery to iterative delivery, accountability, and outcomes.
Open resourceField Guide to Human-Centered Design
A free field guide with 57 methods, practical worksheets, mindsets, and case examples for moving from stakeholder research through ideation and implementation.
Open resourceFree UX Templates and Guides
A curated collection of free templates for interviews, empathy maps, journey maps, service blueprints, research planning, workshops, and product discovery.
Open resourceHow the Discovery Phase Works
A clear guide to framing a discovery, researching users and constraints, challenging assumptions, and deciding whether a problem should move into solution exploration.
Open resourceHuman-Centered Design Guide Series
Federal discovery and design guides with operating checklists for framing work, planning research, identifying roles, synthesizing findings, and communicating what was learned.
Open resourceIIBA Business Analysis Professional Resources
IIBA’s central index for standards, articles, podcasts, webinars, competency guidance, and career material. Some resources are public and others require membership.
Open resourceIREB Requirements Engineering Download Center
Free syllabi, glossaries, study guides, fact sheets, and other requirements-engineering references from the organization behind the CPRE standard.
Open resourceIREB Requirements Engineering Glossary
A searchable official glossary spanning requirements elicitation, documentation, validation, management, modeling, and related concepts.
Open resourceNASA Systems Engineering Handbook
A rigorous public handbook covering stakeholder expectations, technical requirements, logical decomposition, decision analysis, validation, verification, and requirements management.
Open resourceService Blueprinting Template
A free template and concise guide for connecting customer touchpoints to the people, processes, systems, and evidence that make a service work behind the scenes.
Open resourceStakeholder Mapping Guidance
Open guidance, presentation material, and tools for identifying stakeholders, assessing power and interest, and turning the map into a proportionate engagement plan.
Open resourceStakeholder Needs Definition
SEBoK guidance for identifying stakeholders and turning their expectations, constraints, risks, and operational concepts into an integrated set of needs.
Open resourceThe Business Analysis Standard
IIBA’s freely available foundation for business analysis, covering needs, value, stakeholders, change, context, planning, elicitation, strategy analysis, requirements, and solution evaluation.
Open resourceThe Double Diamond
The Design Council’s open framework for alternating divergent and convergent work across Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver. Useful for giving analysis and design work a shared shape.
Open resourceAligning Operating Models with Strategy
A Guild webinar on using operating models to improve analysis, planning, organizational choices, and executive decisions. Use it when the term operating model lacks a shared meaning.
Open resourceBusiness Model Canvas
A public introduction to the Business Model Canvas; useful when BA work must begin above the capability layer.
Open resourceBusiness Motivation Model 1.3
The OMG standard for ends, means, influencers, assessments, and directives that can anchor strategy mapping.
Open resourceEliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create Grid
The official ERRC tool for challenging an industry’s assumptions and deciding which value factors to eliminate, reduce, raise, or create.
Open resourceExecuting Strategy for Results
A free MIT Sloan course on the organizational conditions behind execution, including shared context, goals, resource reallocation, distributed leadership, and execution culture.
Open resourceMastering Strategic Management
An openly licensed textbook covering external and internal analysis, business- and corporate-level strategy, competition, cooperation, international strategy, and execution.
Open resourcePlaybook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation
A free method library and playbook organized around perspective, opportunity, solution, team, and vision, with instructions, examples, tips, and reusable templates.
Open resourceStrategic Foresight
A concise federal orientation to analyzing drivers and trends before strategy or planning, with references that connect foresight to organizational and workforce decisions.
Open resourceStrategic Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy
A five-step OECD toolkit for challenging assumptions, building scenarios, stress-testing strategies, developing actions, and facilitating foresight work with real cases.
Open resourceStrategic Management I
A free MIT Sloan course covering the Delta Model, Porter frameworks, resource-based strategy, customer value propositions, competencies, industry structure, and competitive positioning.
Open resourceStrategy Canvas
The official Blue Ocean Strategy guide to visualizing the factors an industry competes on, comparing value curves, and making a differentiated strategic profile explicit.
Open resourceStrategyzer Tools Library
A collection of canvases, test and learning cards, portfolio aids, assessments, and supporting guides. Use it to frame strategy and hypotheses before translating them into architecture.
Open resourceThe Futures Toolkit
Twelve practical futures-thinking tools, plus suggested pathways for applying them to policy and strategy when uncertainty makes a single forecast inadequate.
Open resourceTransforming Strategy Execution Through Business Architecture
A Guild webinar positioning business architecture as the coordinating discipline between business direction and coherent execution. Useful when strategy and delivery operate as separate conversations.
Open resource20-Minute Capability Mapping Revisited
A Guild webinar on business-object-based capability definition, naming discipline, scope, overlap, and the downstream effects of weak models. Use it to repair an unstable or overly functional map.
Open resourceBusiness Capability Map Guide
A public explanation of capability maps, common structures, and practical examples.
Open resourceBusiness Capability Mapping Guide
A second public treatment of capability mapping that is useful for comparing terminology and modeling choices.
Open resourceCapability Mapping — Public Video
A practical introductory video from the Business Architecture Guild on capability mapping.
Open resourceTOGAF Series Guide: Business Capabilities, Version 2
The Open Group guide to defining, modeling, decomposing, and applying business capabilities. It provides a TOGAF-aligned comparison point for BIZBOK-based practice.
Open resource20-Minute Value Stream Mapping Revisited
A Guild webinar on common myths, state-based navigation, rapid drafting, validation, and practical use. It is especially useful when capabilities have crowded out the stakeholder-value view.
Open resourceClarifying Stakeholder Mapping
A Guild webinar on stakeholder definitions, value-delivery roles, mapping principles, and alignment to the core architecture domains. Useful when the label customer hides a broader ecosystem.
Open resourceTOGAF Series Guide: Value Streams
The Open Group guide to identifying, defining, decomposing, modeling, and mapping value streams to other business architecture elements.
Open resourceValue Creation, Value Consumption, and Navigation
A Guild webinar linking customer and stakeholder value consumption to the capabilities and investments that create value. Use it to connect journey work with investment shaping.
Open resourceValue Proposition Canvas
A public guide for clarifying customer jobs, pains, gains, and the value proposition before translating them into architecture.
Open resourceBuilding and Using Information Maps Revisited
A Guild webinar on business vocabulary, information concepts, capability assessment, value-stream navigation, and technology investment. Use it when data decisions lack business context.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture and Organization Design Alignment
A public paper on using architecture to inform organization design without collapsing capability into the org chart.
Open resourceTOGAF Series Guide: Information Mapping
The Open Group guide to identifying and representing the business information concepts needed by capabilities and value streams. Use it before jumping directly to data entities or applications.
Open resourceTOGAF Series Guide: Organization Mapping
The Open Group guide to mapping actors, organizational units, relationships, and the broader enterprise ecosystem beyond the reporting hierarchy.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture and Business Performance Analysis
A Guild learning module on performance concepts, heat maps, measurement, and the application of performance management to architecture and portfolio analysis.
Open resourceExtended Mapping Knowledge
A Guild learning module covering strategy, stakeholder, initiative, product, and policy mapping objectives with linked readings and recordings.
Open resourceFinancial Services Product Deployment Scenario
A Guild webinar on product, service, product line, product family, entitlement, and their role in transformation planning. The concepts generalize beyond financial services.
Open resourceGuild Metamodel and BACM Alignment: Part 2
A Guild webinar comparing the Guild metamodel and BACM across organization, product, strategy, and initiative domains. Useful when adopting BACM-compliant tooling.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Governance
A Guild learning module covering roles, governance structures, team purpose, scaling, organizational application, and maturity assessment.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Innovation Summit 2025 Presentations
Public presentation material showing how practitioners frame scenarios, artifacts, and outcomes.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Maturity Model
The Guild maturity model for assessing how a practice is established, governed, adopted, and institutionalized. Use it to frame a credible current state and next stage.
Open resourceCDC Program Evaluation Framework
A practical six-step evaluation framework with cross-cutting actions and quality standards for designing evidence, engaging stakeholders, judging outcomes, and acting on findings.
Open resourceEnterprise Architecture Management Maturity Framework
The GAO maturity framework offers a rigorous public example of staged governance, institutionalization, and management controls.
Open resourceEvidence-Based Policymaking: Practices to Help Manage Results
A GAO guide with 13 practices for planning results, identifying evidence needs, generating and using evidence, involving stakeholders, and sustaining organizational learning.
Open resourceLogic Models Research Guide
A curated open-access library for developing and using logic models in program planning, implementation, communication, and evaluation.
Open resourceMetrics for Evidence-Based Strategy Execution
A public white paper on linking business architecture to measurable performance rather than stopping at maps.
Open resourceMulti-Criteria Decision Analysis for Options Appraisal
A step-by-step guide for comparing options across qualitative and quantitative criteria, exposing trade-offs, applying swing weighting, and testing the sensitivity of a decision.
Open resourceOptimizing Risk Transparency
A public white paper on linking risks to business architecture so risk conversations become traceable and decision-relevant.
Open resourceThe Green Book
UK government guidance for developing and appraising options by examining objectives, costs, benefits, risks, trade-offs, evidence, and value before a proposal is approved.
Open resourceThe Magenta Book
UK government guidance for building evaluation into the design, implementation, delivery, and review of policies, programs, projects, and services.
Open resourceTheory of Change Toolkit
A practical introduction to connecting context, activities, assumptions, outputs, outcomes, and evidence so a proposed intervention can be challenged before delivery and evaluated afterward.
Open resourceArchiMate Licensed Downloads
The Open Group page for licensed access to the ArchiMate standard and related material. Use it when formal notation must span business, application, and technology architecture.
Open resourceBPMN 2.0.2 Specification
The official BPMN standard page. Use it to keep process notation distinct from value streams and capability models.
Open resourceBusiness and IT Architecture Alignment
A public paper on maintaining business direction while working with application, data, solution, and technology architecture.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture and Lean Six Sigma
A Guild webinar on aligning Lean Six Sigma practices with business architecture, with emphasis on complementary value-stream perspectives and distinct responsibilities.
Open resourceDecision Model and Notation 1.5
The official DMN standard for making business decisions, their dependencies, decision tables, and expression logic understandable across business and technical roles.
Open resourceQuality Tools and Templates
Public ASQ guidance on quality tools that complement BA when the work moves from structural diagnosis into root-cause analysis.
Open resourceSemantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules 1.5
The official SBVR standard for defining shared business vocabulary and expressing rules precisely without tying them to a specific technology implementation.
Open resourceTOGAF Series Guides
The Open Group index for topic-specific guidance, including capabilities, business models, information mapping, organization mapping, and value streams.
Open resourceTOGAF Standard, 10th Edition
The Open Group download page for the modular TOGAF Standard. Use it when business architecture must operate within a broader enterprise architecture method or governance structure.
Open resourceUnified Modeling Language 2.5.1
The official UML specification page. Use it as the notation authority when analysis requires use cases, state models, sequence diagrams, or other formal system views.
Open resourceValue Streams and Business Processes
A Guild webinar clarifying the related but distinct roles of value streams, high-level business processes, and capabilities. Use it when teams treat value stream and process as synonyms.
Open resourceAPQC PCF Definitions and Key Measures
Detailed definitions for PCF 8.0 process elements plus recommended indicators for each process group. Use it when a process taxonomy needs operational definitions and measures.
Open resourceAPQC Process Classification Frameworks
A public overview of cross-industry and industry process frameworks. Useful as a comparison point, not as a capability map substitute.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Common Reference Model
A Guild work-in-progress model containing strategic, core, and supporting capabilities plus value streams for cross-industry use.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Guild Industry Reference Models
The Guild index for common and industry-specific capability and value-stream reference models. Treat every model as a starting hypothesis that still requires enterprise validation.
Open resourceFederal Integrated Business Framework
Public federal service, function, data, and standards models that provide useful reference-model examples in Excel and JSON.
Open resourceTransportation Industry Reference Model
The Guild transportation model with strategic, core, and supporting capabilities and a set of value streams. It is a useful baseline, not a substitute for enterprise-specific validation.
Open resourceTransportation Reference Model Companion Guide
The Guild companion guide for interpreting and applying the Transportation Industry Reference Model when the model alone does not explain intended scope or usage.
Open resourceArchi — Open-Source Modeling Tool
A free desktop tool for ArchiMate modeling and repository-based architecture work.
Open resourceArchi Modeling Resources
Public examples, guidance, scripts, and community resources for the Archi tool.
Open resourceBPMN.io Browser Modeler
A free browser-based BPMN modeler for lightweight process work without installing a tool.
Open resourcediagrams.net
A free general-purpose diagramming tool for workshops, early models, and stakeholder communication.
Open resourceOrbus Business Capability Model Starter Pack
An archived starter pack with a Visio template, capability notation guidance, and heat-map options. Use it as a visual accelerator, not as a complete method.
Open resourceCBA Exam Domains and Objectives
The official public blueprint for the ten Certified Business Architect exam domains and their objectives.
Open resourceCBA Program Policies
Official public program policies covering membership, certification duration, retakes, and administration.
Open resourceOpen CA Conformance Requirements
The official requirements document for experience, competencies, professional development, and contribution.
Open resourceOpen Certified Architect Overview
The Open Group’s current overview of the experience-based Open CA program and its three levels.
Open resourceOpen Professions Experience Profile Guidelines
Official guidance for writing coherent, evidence-based experience profiles around real work and professional judgment.
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