An  Asset Portfolio is a Management System aimed at developing and maintaining in operational conditions a set of Mezzo Resource Operating Assets, delivering Resource Capabilitys required by Business Operations.

The purpose of  Asset Portfolios is efficiency: Managed Resource Assets must provide expected Resource Capabilitys in the best cost / performance ratio.

An  Assurance System is a Management System aimed at ensuring enterprise compliance, resilience, and risk mitigation against both internal and external Policys and threats. It encompasses processes, Directives and technologies that work in concert to validate enterprise adherence to policy requirements, industry standards, and internal policies while simultaneously bolstering the enterprise's ability to withstand and adapt to various challenges and disruptions.
ensuring enterprise compliance and resilience against internal and external constraints:

a. Regulation constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the law (See  Regulation Article).

b. Internal policies and rules constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the enterprise (see Business Policy).

c. Operational constraints: they maintain operational capacities of the company (maintain ability to produce, maintain quality, ensure product development , ability to hire, to train, etc, see Business Rule).

d. Architectural constraints: they guide design decisions and shape the overall structure of a system (see  Architecture principle).

A  Management Stage is a past, current or future state of a Management System.

Each  Management Stage represents a Management Initiative comprising a purposeful set of activities whose primary purpose is focused on achieving a set of clearly defined objectives assigned to  Functional Assets managed in the Management System.

The set of all  Management Stages of an Management System defines its Roadmap.

A  Management System is a mezzo Enduring Initiative within an Enterprise, aimed at creating, maintaining, evaluating, evolving, and operating a collection of essential  Functional Architecture Assets of the Enterprise.

A  Management System may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently requires an integrated team working under the direction of a Management Initiative Committee.

An  Organization is a group of people who share a common purpose and establish a functional division of labor in pursuit of their common purpose.

It is the relationships between its members in the pursuit of their common purpose that give unity and identity to an organization.

An  Architecture Governance Committee is an organization of resources and people (persons and committees) who make up a body for the purpose of administering an Enterprise.

Enterprise stakeholders draw up the rules that govern the actions and conduct of an enterprise and ensure that these rules are followed.

An  Architecture Governance Committee includes sets of dedicated resources and activities that support interactions and decision-making among the stakeholders involved in architecting the Enterprise.

An  Architecture Project project consists in a set of modeling tasks entrusted to a Team Committee in order develop or update architecture artifacts (Asset Blocks) so as to achieve a specific objective.

 Architecture Projects are often sub-initiatives of larger enterprise transformation endeavors.

An  Enterprise is a macro Enduring Initiative that delivers added-value Products (goods & services) to its target  Customers.

It requires a formal organization of groups of people and resources to achieve its purposes.

A  Transformation Program is an Initiative that is a temporary, flexible organisation created to co-ordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related Projects and Tasks in order to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organisation’s strategic objectives.

A programme is likely to have a lifespan of several years. During a programme lifecycle, projects are initiated, executed, and closed.  Programmes provide an umbrella under which these projects can be co-ordinated. The programme integrates the projects so that it can deliver an outcome greater than the sum of its parts.

Programs are defined upon a given domain (e.g. Business, Information Technology)

A program domain gathers all the projects managed from the same perspective in terms of portfolio management decisions. Project Portfolios are therefore also attached to programs; by default, one portfolio of each portfolio type is created when creating a new program.