This activity is focused on organizing and doing a thorough analysis of the Business, Logical or Technical Perspective of the IT architecture. Appropriate materials are gathered, venues booked and participants informed.

Prior to this analysis the IT architecture has been reviewed ensuring that it is complete and consistent (normally an IT architect peer review) and a review of the content of the architecture in terms of how accurately it captures the business (normally involving stakeholders that have intimate knowledge of the business, a stakeholder review).

This analysis assumes that the IT architecture is complete and accurate (i.e. these reviews have been completed) and essentially takes a step back from the IT architecture and looks at the larger context, proposed solutions, implications of these solutions, and how it all fits into the enterprise's business strategy, IT strategy, technology and other standards, and other plans and objectives. This analysis is slightly different for each of the levels. Not only are the participants different, the focus and objectives of the analysis at the Business level are much different that those at the Technical level.

Actions are documented, assigned and tracked.

These activities are best carried out by a small team staffed by cross-functional team members. The team should include members with domain experience who can identify key abstractions, and ideally system and technical level IT architects and experts. The team should also have experience and knowledge of a wide range of technologies along with model organization and layering.