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<jats:p>Enterprise architecture methods provide strategic and cross-domain traceability, whereas Scrum optimizes short-cycle delivery. In small digital firms, combining them can create excessive overhead or leave architecture disconnected from product work. This study develops and demonstrates an integrated TOGAF ADM-ArchiMate-Scrum framework in a 13-person digital learning SME. A retrospective design-science case-study method was used. Requirements were synthesized from standards, peer-reviewed literature, primary case-study records, and architecture artifacts produced during the study. The artifact comprises four iterative ADM cycles, three architecture detail levels, explicit mappings between ADM phases and Scrum events and backlogs, two tailored ArchiMate profiles containing 25 and 42 concepts, and governance roles linking enterprise architecture to delivery teams. Analytic evaluation examined standards continuity, lifecycle coverage, traceability, parsimony, governance clarity, and case applicability. The framework covered ADM phases A-H and continuous requirements management, maintained traceability from drivers and capabilities to solution backlog items, and reduced the minimum profile by 40.5% relative to the extended profile. The study demonstrates feasibility and provides reusable mapping artifacts; it does not establish causal improvements in delivery performance.</jats:p>

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