It's been a while (busy, busy) but I though this one would be a good candidate for another ArchiMate quiz. This time not "What is wrong with this picture', but more, "This is grammatically correct, but why? And what does…
Category: Using ArchiMate
Answer for “An #ArchiMate Quiz Question”
It's been a while (Oct 8), but the answer for the Quiz Question had to wait for the release of this renewed website. I put out a quiz question and received various answers. The best answers were by Samuel Rinnetmäki…
An #ArchiMate Quiz Question
Now that Edition III of the book is done, there is finally some time for some old-fashioned ArchiMate fun. So, as a variation on the theme "what is wrong with this picture", I would like to invite you to a…
ArchiMate 3.0.1
The Open Group has just released its 'Technical Corrigendum No. 1' (TC1) for ArchiMate 3.0 from June 2016. TC1. It is a substantial improvement over 3.0 even if it is just a minor version upgrade. Part of the change is…
How does the API-economy differ from the SOA approach of the past? An ArchiMate answer.
These days, there is a lot of talk about the ‘API Economy’: a world filled with systems providing services to other systems using (above all RESTful) services. It would be easy to miss the fact that this isn’t new at…
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Who's in Charge? (Layers? What Layers! — 2)
ArchiMate 3, at first glance, looks like a very orthodox IT-oriented enterprise architecture modeling langage. It can show how the business is supported ('service-oriented') by applications which are supported ('service-oriented') by infrastructure. This has been the Core of ArchiMate's view…
What is wrong with this picture?
Time for another — this time very short — educational quiz post. Look at the following diagram (in the Mastering ArchiMate colour scheme). Is this OK? [Completed post (from this point on) revealed on 21/Sep/2016] First, let's look at why this…
ArchiMate 3.0.1 metamodel PDF
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Process Modelling in ArchiMate in BiZZdesign Architect
A short while ago I wrote about using ArchiMate to model processes instead of the (agreed, vastly superiour) BPMN language. What I did was change the visuals on ArchiMate elements to support this and I also did a few things…
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Modelling processes in ArchiMate
ArchiMate is not a process modelling language. It has only limited support for process modelling. That is why I personally prefer to combine BPMN with ArchiMate, but that is not trivial (as explained here and here). In the book there…
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