Is TOGAF worth it? Been coding for 13 years and want to stick to coding / design work. Is it worth taking the test now?

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No enterprise architecture is a whole different world. Few of those people have ever been developers. EA is about mapping business capabilities to tech capabilities, understating dependencies and impacts across the enterprise, etc. It’s not at all the same thing as system or application architecture but they do intersect.

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Coming from a non code person who wants to dip their toes in, what is enterprise architecture vs. development. I was under the impression an architect was a developer

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If you want to move into enterprise architecture that would make sense. Not sure it is worth much if you say in development

Yes , that's where I want to head..in other words I do not want to get into sales/PMO etc work

Agreed - got mine and unless you want to do strategic IT transformation work and have to deal with director level execs with huge egos then stay away. The world is moving to agile like elaborative design and architecture so Better off getting PMI ACP/SAFe SA certified learning to build an architectural runway and collaborate with agile teams on a release train or program level

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