(Sorry, long story. It will return in an appendix in Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. It's not related to that book's main message, it is just an 'illustration' used in the book, which I thought would be nice for…
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Black Friday Deal for Mastering ArchiMate Edition II PDF
Just a short note. If you buy the PDF of Mastering ArchiMate Edition II via DPD (see link on the Mastering ArchiMate Edition II book page) on Black Friday 2014 (Friday November 28), and enter the coupon code BFD2014, you…
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Modelling networking using the networking concepts of #ArchiMate
The rise of networking form the 1980's onward may be considered the main driving force of the invention of enterprise architecture, itself a follow-up on what was until then known as system architecture. On the eve of the rise of…
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New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
Principles and guidelines are not architecture, and if your main product is principles and guidelines, you’re not an architect.
New Enterprise Architecture Column: On Slippery Ice
Principles and guidelines are not architecture, and if your main product is principles and guidelines, you’re not an architect.
Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances)
This post is about two related things: modelling actual detailed architectures of large homogenous landscapes and the class versus instance issue in ArchiMate. Both are closely related. But before I start out, for those unacquainted with Object-Orientation, or Classes and…
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The #ArchiMate Wish List: Junctions for All
Though I like ArchiMate, and I can (except for a few missing things such as Capability) model anything I encounter in the enterprise, I think some changes could make ArchiMate even more powerful. This is the first post in a…
New Book, new blog
The site for the next book "Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture" has gone live. It will take some time still before the book is available, but I will already start blogging a bit about the subject. A welcome…
Welcome
Who needs another blog if the one you have is already reasonably successful? Well, I do. That is because that other blog is about the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelling language and this one is about enterprise architecture in general. And…
The Archi #ArchiMate tool is looking for sponsors
Just a short note today. The Open Source Archi Tool used to be supported by a UK University. It isn't anymore. The university has stopped its sponsoring and Archi's developer (Phil Beauvoir) has left the university and started an initiative…
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