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29 days ago

Error corrected in my #ArchiMate 3.0.1 Reference Sheets

by Gerben Wierda

I’ve corrected an error (reported by Alun Champion. Thanks!) in the ArchiMate 3.0.1 sheets (in the depiction of the Motivation aspect). This has been corrected. The corrected post with the downloadable PDF (print two-sided and laminate is the bes…

Categories #eavoices, Archimate, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
1 month, 2 days ago

Two Celebrations, and the New Year’s Eve #ArchiMate Quiz answer

by Gerben Wierda

Solution to the New Year’s Eve ArchiMate quiz and celebrating half a million views on this site and 200,000 for the animation.

Categories #eavoices, Discussing ArchiMate, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
6 months, 13 days ago

ArchiMate Quiz Solution: A Common Cause

by Gerben Wierda

June 22, I posted another ArchiMate quiz question: ArchiMate Quiz: A Common Cause. It’s been a while, but here is the discussion of the ‘solution’. The quiz started with the following two ArchiMate snippets (in Mastering ArchiMate col…

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7 months, 25 days ago

ArchiMate Quiz: a common cause

by Gerben Wierda

It’s been a while (busy, busy) but I though this one would be a good candidate for another ArchiMate quiz. This time not “What is wrong with this picture’, but more, “This is grammatically correct, but why? And what does……

Categories #eavoices, Archimate, Discussing ArchiMate, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
1 year, 4 months ago

An #ArchiMate Quiz Question

by Gerben Wierda

Now that Edition III of the book is done, there is finally some time for some old-fashioned ArchiMate fun. So, as a variation on the theme “what is wrong with this picture“, I would like to invite you to a … Continue reading →

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1 year, 6 months ago

ArchiMate 3.0.1

by Gerben Wierda

The Open Group has just released its ‘Technical Corrigendum No. 1’ (TC1) for ArchiMate 3.0 from June 2016. TC1. It is a substantial improvement over 3.0 even if it is just a minor version upgrade. Part of the change is … Continue reading →

Categories #eavoices, Discussing ArchiMate, Mastering ArchiMate, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
1 year, 9 months ago

How does the API-economy differ from the SOA approach of the past? An ArchiMate answer.

by Gerben Wierda

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 →

Categories #eavoices, API, Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
2 years, 4 months ago

Who’s in Charge? (Layers? What Layers! — 2)

by Gerben Wierda

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 →

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2 years, 5 months ago

ArchiMate 3.0 metamodel PDF

by Gerben Wierda

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 →

Categories #eavoices, Mastering ArchiMate, Using ArchiMateTags #eavoices
2 years, 10 months ago

Modelling processes in ArchiMate

by Gerben Wierda

ArchiMate is not a process modelling language. It has only limited support for process modelling. That is why I personally prefer to combine BPMN with ArchiMate, but that is not trivial (as explained here and here). In the book there … Continue reading →

Categories #eavoices, Tooling, Using ArchiMate, Using BPMNTags #eavoices
3 years, 1 month ago

Modeling Virtual Data

by Gerben Wierda

Enough discussing proposed fixes and improvements for ArchiMate (here, here, here, here and here). Time for a ‘normal’ modelling post. This time about the concept of virtual data. Most of you will know what a virtual machine is, so what … Continue reading →

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3 years, 4 months ago

Modelling a rich business service (What was wrong with that picture?)

by Gerben Wierda

In the post What is wrong with this picture? I showed a pattern devised by an enterprise architect to model the standard services they want to provide to customers. The idea of such a service is that is is largely some sort of … Continue reading →

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