My apologies for being late, but I decided to add a Black Friday Deal for this year. Using the Coupon Code BFD2015, you will get a 15% discount on all electronic products of R&A. These include: Mastering ArchiMate Edition II…
Author: gctwnl
I work in the trenches of real enterprise architecture and write on the basis of that.
Open Letter to TOG #5
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) now available as bundle
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) are now available as a bundle purchase with a discount of €5 for the two together. Please visit either the Chess and the Art of Enterprise…
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) now available as bundle
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) are now available as a bundle purchase with a discount of €5 for the two together. Please visit either the Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture…
Architecture Principles considered harmful
In the book, I've written about several standard instruments of the orthodox enterprise architecture approach. One of these is the use of 'architecture principles'. I'm convinced, personally, that these often do more bad than good and this has to do…
Open Letter to TOG #4
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
What is wrong with this picture?
It is time for another one in the "What's wrong with this picture?" series. This time, I might maybe better have called it "What is not wrong with this picture?". Here is the story. A company I know has started…
Open Letter to TOG #3
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
Modelling a rich business service (What was wrong with that picture?)
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…
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Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available as PDF
Chess and the Art of Enterprise is now also available as PDF for those who like to read it on a device instead of on paper. This version looks exactly like the paper version (which means: more elegant than the iBook).…
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