Enterprise Architecture practice needs more discipline
Have you ever wondered why engineers are more trusted than…
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The Other Side of Requirements
We tend to think of requirements as ‘incoming’ elements for our designs. But what we not always explicitly notice is that we also create many ‘outgoing’ requirements in our designs, often in the form of ‘constraints’ of the ‘users’ of the products that…
Layering — is it really a useful approach in Business/IT/Enterprise Architecture?
Is layering — e.g. the classic BDAT (Business, data, Application, Technology) stack — really useful in Enterprise Architecture? An analysis with some side nodes about ArchiMate.
Traduction des fiches Mastering ArchiMate
Je publie aujourd’hui une traduction française de mes fiches (PDF) de présentation ArchiMate, un guide visuel et concis de la grammaire ArchiMate. La première page contient le métamodèle du Cœur du framework ArchiMate. Il est représenté dans le jeu de&…
Mastering ArchiMate 3.1 is now available
Hurrah! Mastering ArchiMate 3.1 is now live. You can read about it on the book’s home page. And you can buy it there. All customers who bought the previous edition on or after 5 Nov 2019 (the date version 3.1… Read More Mastering ArchiMate…
You’re invited (by The Open Group) to contribute to the next minor #ArchiMate release
You are invited to a webinar by The Open Group about the possibility to contribute to the next minor #ArchiMate release.
Accurate Insights into the Runtime Topology of Application Landscapes
In his previous EAPJ article “Application Landscape Views and SOA”…
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Modelling Networking in ArchiMate 3.1
ArchiMate has elements for networking. They’re hardly used by anyone and they have some massive drawbacks. There is an alternative. You can model networking without them.
The July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz
The last quiz was quite a while ago I am sorry to say. But today I am offering a new one. My quizzes in the past often where there to illustrate some weirdness in ArchiMate or something that could trip… Read More The July 2020 ArchiMate Quiz
Belief #10 Best architecture practices value communication and stakeholder engagement over intricate modelling
Have you ever created a well-defined and precise model describing the architecture of your project or business – only to see that it is not really used? You end up with outdated diagrams, a beautiful meta-model and an advanced modelling tool that can generate reports and XML, while your key stakeholders keep discussing their stupid…
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Models, assumptions, risks and consequences.
Expressing real life situations as mathematical models drive decisions on how to respond appropriately. Assumptions are not facts but do have a probability of occurring. Confidence in a model is an important factor of both the likelihood of the assumptions being correct and the quality and quantity of the data … Continue reading
Models, assumptions and making decisions
Mathematical models provide a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language. Models explain how a system operates and predicts its behaviour with changing parameters and assumptions .
Mathematical models answer questions. In …