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On June 14, the 3.0 version of the ArchiMate standard was unveiled during the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2016. Time for a review. I’ve divided it up in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, with The Good standing for changes … Continue reading →
By Iver Band, Enterprise Architect at Cambia Health Solutions and Vice Chair, The Open Group ArchiMate Forum I recently sat down with my Cambia Health Solutions colleague Ryan Kennedy. Ryan is an architect with whom I have worked over the … Continue reading →
In this series of blogs, we describe the use of the new ArchiMate 3.0 standard in practice. We use a fictitious but realistic example company, ArchiSurance, well-known to the users of ArchiMate as this is the company from the standard case study provid…
There’s a new version of the Archimate enterprise-architecture notation now out: version 3.0, launched at the IRM-EAC Enterprise Architecture conference in London last week. With many thanks to Andrew Josey, Marc Lankhorst, Gerben Wierda and others, I’ve been working my…
By The Open Group This summer The Open Group ArchiMate® Forum will make available the latest version of the ArchiMate Specification®, version 3.0, with a series of announcements and events to take place throughout the months of June and July. … Continue reading →
On June 14, The Open Group launched the new version of the ArchiMate modelling language for enterprise architecture at the Enterprise Architecture Conference 2016 in London. This is a new step in the development of a standard that started in Netherland…
A short while ago I wrote about using ArchiMate to model processes instead of the (agreed, vastly superiour) BPMN language. What I did was change the visuals on ArchiMate elements to support this and I also did a few things … Continue reading →
A short post, because it is only here to point you to the real story over on enterprisechess.com. The reason it’s been published there is that it is not so much about the language itself and how to model in … Continue reading →
ArchiMate is not an open standard by most definitions as it is neither royalty-free nor maintained by a not-for-profit organisation. TOG is a commercial enterprise whose (shaky) approach to the legalities is meant to create a monopoly. Continue reading →
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 →
Over the last few weeks we have posted a series of articles about the challenges at BriteLite and the way Brenda the Architect has helped solve them using architecture practices in general, and ArchiMate in particular.
The buzz in the organization is increasing as time passes. People have noticed that Brenda’s team is moving on from “just architecture” to road mapping and there is a lot of talk at the coffee machine about how things will commence in the (near) future. Through newsletters and attendance at (management) meetings, Brenda has made sure that everyone is up to date on progress. The positive ‘spin’ seems to have effect as there is not a lot of push-back so far. Also, the good news is that people are getting used to seeing Brenda and Matt together as they are spreading the word about the upcoming changes. The positive atmosphere makes it easier for them to also ask the hard questions.