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Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, the ArchiMate Forum Chair, at the close of yet another interesting year, I present you with a new ArchiMate Quiz question. The image — presented here in Mastering ArchiMate colours — is shown here: And the… Read…
In our previous blog post on planning and roadmapping, we discussed the general idea of planning and roadmapping in the context of enterprise architecture and capability-based planning. We addressed different levels of roadmaps, ranging from short-term…
In my previous blog post (https://bizzdesign.com/blog/a-pattern-for-sizing-archimate-diagrams) I described why it is useful to reduce complexity when creating architecture diagrams. It supports the architect by guiding the creation of diagrams and it …
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…
This blog, the third in a series with Marc Lankhorst, Managing Consultant for BiZZdesign, looks at how architecture in general and the ArchiMate language in particular can add a lot of value to agile approaches.
This blog, the second in a series with Marc Lankhorst, Managing Consultant for BiZZdesign, looks at how standards can be used together to help organizations better facilitate the transformations and changes they need to make.
Kevin Wallis (MOD ISS) & Marc Lankhorst (BiZZdesign) In the previous instalments in this series, we discussed common drivers for architecture in defence and industry, commonalities between the architecture practice in defence and the civil sector,…
Kevin Wallis (MOD ISS) & Marc Lankhorst (BiZZdesign) In the previous two instalments in this series, on drivers for architecture in defence and industry and on comparing defence architecture practice with the civil sector, we described the common …
-Marc Lankhorst (BiZZdesign) & Kevin Wallis (MOD ISS) In the first instalment of this series, we compared drivers for enterprise architecture in defence and industry and found that there is are increasing commonalities: a growing focus on interope…
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……
-Kevin Wallis (MOD ISS) & Marc Lankhorst (BiZZdesign) In this blog series, we want to update you on the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) use of the ArchiMate modelling language as described in the NATO Architecture Framework version 4, which was off…
In my recent blog series, I highlighted the importance of communication for strategic transformations. This affects several functions and various roles in your organization by asking different questions, such as: * What capabilities do I need to suppor…