Articles about IT and Enterprise Architecture and (ArchiMate) modelling
Architects generally wrestle with the problem of communicating their complex world of dependencies to stakeholders. Those that created the ArchiMate language hoped that making a better language would enable clearer communication. While ArchiMate does enable more precise communication than your average…
Read More ArchiMate doesn’t make communication to management easier
A while back, I wrote in the blog post ArchiMate is overrated (and underrated) that using ArchiMate doesn't really have that much added value for communicating simple, high-level views to stakeholders (users, management), but its structure does bring advantages that enables us to…
Recently, I had a conversation with someone about how to do enterprise architecture. I prepared that conversation by trying to condense my basic argument for the`enterprise chess' approach to the absolute minimum. I started out with the question: "Suppose we don't…
Read More Losing a Limpet – What happens when we don’t have Enterprise Architecture?
