1 month, 25 days ago
Technical vs. solution vs. enterprise architecture: a matter of scale
I generally rather talk about real architecture issues than about…
Gerben Wierda
2 months, 25 days ago
How does the API-economy differ from the SOA approach of the past? An ArchiMate answer.
These days, there is a lot of talk about the ‘API Economy’: a world filled with systems providing services to other systems using (above all RESTful) services. It would be easy to miss the fact that this isn’t new at … Continue reading →
4 months, 17 days ago
Enterprise Architecture Video Most Viewed on YouTube
I’m working on a few more serious things, but in the meantime I did not want to let this happen silently. The animation Why Enterprise Architecture (“Meet Michael”) is now (clearly, 2000 views more than the next one) the most … Continue reading →
5 months, 9 days ago
Agile & Architecture
Confronted with the problems of Waterfall approaches, organisations are all…
5 months, 21 days ago
The ArchiMate 3.0 Relations Table…
…has serious, and many, errors. According to my personal analysis, around 150 valid relations are missing, and potentially more than 2000 relations that are in that table shouldn’t be, if the text of the standard is to be believed. Here … Continue reading →
6 months, 15 days ago
Agile & Architecture
Confronted with the problems of Waterfall approaches, organisations are all jumping on the Agile bandwagon. This is often a very good thing. Big Up-Front Design (BUFD) has many drawbacks in volatile environments and much of what happens in IT happens … Continue reading →
7 months, 28 days ago
Another Milestone
It has been almost a month ago that it happened (but I had other things one my mind), but it did happen. This blog passed the 300,000 views mark and also the 100,000 viewers mark. Thank you all for reading, … Continue reading →
9 months, 21 days ago
Who’s in Charge? (Layers? What Layers! — 2)
ArchiMate 3, at first glance, looks like a very orthodox IT-oriented enterprise architecture modeling langage. It can show how the business is supported (‘service-oriented’) by applications which are supported (‘service-oriented’) by infrastructure. This has been the Core of ArchiMate’s view … Continue reading →
10 months, 10 days ago
What is wrong with this picture?
Time for another — this time very short — educational quiz post. Look at the following diagram. Is this OK?
10 months, 19 days ago
ArchiMate 3.0 metamodel PDF
I’ve created a PDF that you can print two sided (and laminate if you like) to have easy access to the ArchiMate 3 metamodel.On the front it contains the Core meta-model. It is depicted in the Mastering ArchiMate colour scheme (this … Continue reading →
11 months, 5 days ago
An AchiMate 3 Map (Layers? What Layers! — 1)
ArchiMate 3 is setup with 5-6 layers (Strategy, Business, Application, Technology/Physical, Implementation) and 4 aspects: (Passive and Active) Structure, Behaviour and Motivation. Quoting the standard: This looks daunting until you realise that not everything that is called a ‘layer’ is … Continue reading →
1 year, 8 days ago
Follow-up to “Is ArchiMate Open?”
A (concluding) piece about the licensing issues surrounding ArchiMate has been published over on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. Published there, because it is not so much about ArchiMate modelling or the language, but about legal issues and … Continue reading →