A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Third of a few articles with my thoughts on the development, like the previous one focusing on an aspect that did not change (but maybe should)
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ArchiMate NEXT: At your service!
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Second of a few articles with my thoughts on the development. Focusing on ArchiMate's second essential property: external behaviour/structure (services, interfaces), versus internal and the role of abstractions.
ArchiMate NEXT drops BAT. Now What?
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of "ArchiMate NEXT" was published. First of a few articles with my thoughts on the development. With a slight sprinkling of history.
Mastering ArchiMate 3.2 has been released (PDF version)
Mastering ArchiMate 3.2 has been released. Finally. This post contains release information, and a link to the book's page where you can order the free excerpt (with the entire language description as well as a short BPMN primer) or the entire book (both PDF).
The Other Side of Requirements
We tend to think of requirements as 'incoming' elements for our designs. But what we not always explicitly notice is that we also create many 'outgoing' requirements in our designs, often in the form of 'constraints' of the 'users' of the products that come from those designs. These requirements lead a hidden existence most of the time, and that invisibility makes our decision making sometimes less efficient. What if we would make our outgoing requirements explicit? And how could we manage this? For that I created an actual small demo solution to manage solution designs in a library that links them and the requirements they give to each other, built as a plugin for Confluence.
11 years, 11 months, 11 days
Today, it has been 11 years, 11 months, and 11 days since the first post on this blog. The blog was called masteringarchimate.com and the first years the modelling language ArchiMate was the subject. To celebrate, I am today presenting my ArchiMate 3.2 compatible (here and there a bit opinionated) 'ArchiMate Cheat Sheets' in PDF. A preliminary, English only version. More to come later...
Mastering ArchiMate PDF 3.2 Upgrade policy
The Open Group has published a minor update to the ArchiMate® standard. It is now version 3.2. This short post explains the upgrade policy for the PDF version of the Mastering ArchiMate book.
Layering — is it really a useful approach in Business/IT/Enterprise Architecture?
Is layering — e.g. the classic BDAT (Business, data, Application, Technology) stack — really useful in Enterprise Architecture? An analysis with some side nodes about ArchiMate. Warning: may contain traces of analytic EA geekery.
Traduction des fiches Mastering ArchiMate
Je publie aujourd’hui une traduction française de mes fiches (PDF) de présentation ArchiMate, un guide visuel et concis de la grammaire ArchiMate. La première page contient le métamodèle du Cœur du framework ArchiMate. Il est représenté dans le jeu de…
Dev, Test, Production — “It’s Turtles All The Way Down”
Most IT exists to support other IT, not your business directly. A part of this is that stack/web of platforms on which your applications depend. How does that for instance affect #informationsecurity in your designs?
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 