TY - JFULL AU - Babak Darvish Rouhani and Mohd Naz’ri Mahrin and Fatemeh Nikpay and Maryam Khanian Najafabadi and Pourya Nikfard PY - 2015/2/ TI - A Framework for Evaluation of Enterprise Architecture Implementation Methodologies T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 1 EP - 7 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000078 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 97, 2015 N2 - Enterprise Architecture (EA) Implementation Methodologies have become an important part of EA projects. Several implementation methodologies have been proposed, as a theoretical and practical approach, to facilitate and support the development of EA within an enterprise. A significant question when facing the starting of EA implementation is deciding which methodology to utilize. In order to answer this question, a framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the comparative analysis of existing EA implementation methodologies. Five EA implementation methodologies including: EAP, TOGAF, DODAF, Gartner, and FEA are selected in order to compare with proposed framework. The results of the comparison indicate that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient maturity as whole due to lack of consideration on requirement management, maintenance, continuum, and complexities in their process. The framework has also ability for the evaluation of any kind of EA implementation methodologies. ER -