Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As the 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…
Author: gctwnl
I work in the trenches of real enterprise architecture and write on the basis of that.
What is wrong with this #ArchiMate picture?
A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what…
New EAPJ blog post: Reverse Cloud (with two ArchiMate pictures)
Just a short mention here: I've just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a scenario…
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New EAPJ Column: Reverse Cloud
Just a short mention here: I've just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a…
Who you gonna call? Trustbusters!
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other 'technical debt' in your landscape, and you don't have the habit of underestimating…
Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns (2)
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of…
Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns
A while back, I wrote the post Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances), which was a first post on modelling detailed infrastructure landscapes. Assuming you're with me that a modelling language is very useful for large complex situations, but doesn't…
High-res versions of the pictures in the book available
There are not many images in the Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture book. But the type of paper and the size of the book make some of them only borderline readable. Some people have reported trouble reading them, especially…
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The Great Escape: “EA is not about IT!”
As soon as you, as an enterprise architect, want to address the problem of the complex Business-IT landscape, and you actually acknowledge in a discussion that Enterprise Architecture has come into existence because of the complexity of modern IT-laden landscapes,…
Two appearances: Gartner EA Summit (UK) and MBT Conference (NL)
Short update. For those who would like to discuss Enterprise Architecture with me in person: I will be presenting at the Gartner EA Summit London 2015 on May 20th 2015 in London UK and I will be giving the closing keynote (in…
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