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Category: ArchiMate
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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Open Letter to TOG #2
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…
Another milestone: 200,000 views for the Mastering #ArchiMate blog
http://masteringarchimate.com has passed the 200,000 view mark during my vacation. I started this blog in 2011. In June 2014 it passed the 100,000 view mark. It took 14 months to get the next 100,000 views. That is a milestone I wanted…
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Open Letter to TOG #1
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…
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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