EA Artifacts
on a Page
Navigate Kotusev's 28 EA artifacts interactively. Explore all families, understand their purpose, and see how they connect.
Framework Map
See all 28 artifacts positioned on Kotusev's 2x3 grid — Generic to Specific, Business to IT. Highlight by essentiality, process, focus, or lifecycle.
Explore All
Browse all 28 artifacts with search and filters for focus, essentiality and lifecycle. Each artifact links to related artifacts and commonly confused ones.
Find by Process
Filter artifacts by EA process — Strategic Planning, Technology Optimisation, or Initiative Delivery — to see which artifacts belong to which process.
Artifact families
Further topics
In development
Early overviews of the other three Kotusev reference models. Content is present but not yet fully reviewed or polished.
EA Practice
Strategic Planning, Technology Optimisation, Initiative Delivery
EA Function
Architecture tiers, governance bodies, architect domains
EA Maturity
Four stages from no architecture to full enterprise alignment
Based on Svyatoslav Kotusev's EA on a Page framework · CSVLOD taxonomy · Kotusev et al., 2022
Further topics
Early overviews of three additional Kotusev reference models.
In development — content is present but not yet fully reviewed
EA Practice on a Page
Three EA Processes
Strategic Planning, Technology Optimisation, and Initiative Delivery — their goals, structures, inputs, outputs and artifact lifecycles.
EA Function on a Page
Architecture Function
Architecture tiers, governance bodies and procedures, architect roles, domains, and the typical ratio of architects to IT staff.
EA Maturity on a Page
Four Maturity Stages
From no architectural planning to full enterprise-wide alignment — each stage's function, artifacts, processes, benefits and challenges.
EA Practice on a Page
An aggregated view of the three processes constituting an EA practice, their interrelationships and properties.
EA Maturity on a Page
An aggregated view of the maturity of an EA practice with its different stages and their essential properties.
This model is purely descriptive — it reflects typical historical paths of most organisations, but is not prescriptive of a mandatory sequence. In large organisations, different parts of their EA practices may be at different stages across their different divisions.
EA Function on a Page
An aggregated view of architecture functions in organisations with their positions and governance bodies.