Business Architecture Guild — Free Public Resources
The Guild’s public landing page for introductory material, white papers, and other openly available resources.
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The useful links, organized for the work.
A curated library of public standards, guides, white papers, tools, and original downloads. The point is not to collect links; it is to find the right source when a real architecture question appears.
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BIZBOK Guide v15 — Public Introduction
A direct public PDF introducing the discipline, framework, core domains, and intended use of business architecture.
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 resourceBusiness Architecture: Setting the Record Straight
A concise public paper distinguishing business architecture from process work, solution design, and organization charts.
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 Core Metamodel 1.0
The official OMG landing page for BACM, useful for understanding the formal relationships among business architecture concepts.
Open resourceBACM 1.0 — Specification PDF
The full public specification for the Business Architecture Core Metamodel.
Open resourceBusiness Motivation Model 1.3
The OMG standard for ends, means, influencers, assessments, and directives that can anchor strategy mapping.
Open resourceBusiness Model Canvas
A public introduction to the Business Model Canvas; useful when BA work must begin above the capability layer.
Open resourceValue Proposition Canvas
A public guide for clarifying customer jobs, pains, gains, and the value proposition before translating them into architecture.
Open resourceMetrics for Evidence-Based Strategy Execution
A public white paper on linking business architecture to measurable performance rather than stopping at maps.
Open resourceCapability Mapping — Public Video
A practical introductory video from the Business Architecture Guild on capability mapping.
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 resourceBusiness Architecture and Organization Design Alignment
A public paper on using architecture to inform organization design without collapsing capability into the org chart.
Open resourceFederal Integrated Business Framework
Public federal service, function, data, and standards models that provide useful reference-model examples in Excel and JSON.
Open resourceOptimizing Risk Transparency
A public white paper on linking risks to business architecture so risk conversations become traceable and decision-relevant.
Open resourceEnterprise Architecture Management Maturity Framework
The GAO maturity framework offers a rigorous public example of staged governance, institutionalization, and management controls.
Open resourceBusiness Architecture Innovation Summit 2025 Presentations
Public presentation material showing how practitioners frame scenarios, artifacts, and outcomes.
Open resourceBusiness and IT Architecture Alignment
A public paper on maintaining business direction while working with application, data, solution, 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 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 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 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 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 Certified Architect Overview
The Open Group’s current overview of the experience-based Open CA program and its three levels.
Open resourceOpen CA Conformance Requirements
The official requirements document for experience, competencies, professional development, and contribution.
Open resourceOpen Professions Experience Profile Guidelines
Official guidance for writing coherent, evidence-based experience profiles around real work and professional judgment.
Open resourceApplied BA Starter Kit
A downloadable Markdown kit containing an engagement brief, capability canvas, value-stream card, impact grid, and review checklist.
DownloadSix-Week CBA Study Plan
A practical study sequence built around one integrated case, distinction drills, scenario practice, and an error log.
DownloadSCALE Reference Architecture
The open design brief for the Strategic Capabilities Architecture Linkage Engine.
DownloadMentoring Session Log
A simple private record for mentoring goals, sessions, work reviewed, decisions, and progress evidence.
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