I have worked in some large corporates and while people talk of methodologies I don’t often see them followed. Classic example is PRINCE2 on the project management side.
In the life of an Architect I see a lot of Frameworks but again not a lot of companies diligently following them. If anyone has any experiences of these frameworks being well adopted I would be interested to hear of them. Again in the quest for one we have several contenders (linked to wikipedia):
A good measure of demand is highlighted by the % of architecture roles that specified each framework (comparing one against the other).
Enterprise Focus:
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) 62%
Application Focus:
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) 77%
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) 23%