What DoDAF Can Teach Leaders About Architecture and Complexity
From The ITSM Practice: Elevating ITSM and IT Security Knowledge by Luigi Ferri
June 9, 2026 · 11 min · Season 3 · Episode 14
About this episode
Luigi Ferri discusses how modern enterprises are losing control of their architecture and how DoDAF can help manage complexity and improve governance.
Are modern enterprises losing control of their architecture? In this episode, Luigi Ferri explores why cloud adoption, outsourcing, SaaS expansion, and fragmented governance are creating hidden dependencies and increasing operational risk. Discover how the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) offers valuable lessons for improving architectural visibility, governance, resilience, and enterprise-wide coordination in today's complex digital ecosystems. In this episode, we answer to: Why are modern enterprises losing architectural ownership and visibility across complex digital ecosystems? How can the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) help organizations manage complexity, interoperability, and governance? Why do modern outages and operational failures increasingly result from undocumented dependencies and architectural blind spots rather than individual system failures? Resources Mentioned in this Episode: US DoDAF Official Documentation, Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Version 2.02, link https://dodcio.defense.gov/Library/DoD-Architecture-Framework/ TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Framework, TOGAF® Standard, link…
People in this episode
Host: Luigi Ferri
Topics covered
- architecture
- complexity
- cloud adoption
- governance
- operational risk
- digital ecosystems
Keywords
- DoDAF
- architecture
- cloud adoption
- operational risk
- governance
- digital ecosystems
- dependencies
- interoperability
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), US DoDAF Official Documentation, TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Framework, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0
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