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We have a very large Current State Architecture (CSA) model, consisting of 25,000 elements and relations that are also visually maintained in views. Attached to that another 50,000 elements and relations are in a satellite model that has no neatly…
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In a previous post, I asked What is wrong with this picture? It was a diagram about a bank offering a telbanking solution to their customers. I asked readers to try to find the problem and within a day or…
As I was looking at materials to review, I came across this diagram: Before I write more: can you say what is wrong with it? Please add your comment below. Update Sep 12, 2013: Here is the explanatory text that…
As my drawing tool for free model-drawing is OmniGraffle on the Mac (which, I might add is an extremely good and intelligent free model-drawing program). There are ArchiMate 2.0 stencils (to be found on GraffleTopia) but they have the layered-color…
ArchiMate is an open standard for modeling Enterprise Architecture. It can be used in many ways. One of these is a good Current State Architecture description: your current landscape of business and IT, coherently modeled with enough detail to be…
We architects love abstraction. Abstraction makes the nitty gritty and complex details disappear. Abstraction makes the unmanageable manageable. Our business colleagues also love it when we produce abstractions. It makes our end products easier to digest. In ArchiMate, you can…
Since ArchiMate says nothing about style, things like colors, sizes of objects, alignment etc., you are free to develop your own. 'Style' is an interesting subject. On the one hand, we know how style can influence user experience, so it…
I'm happy to announce the public availability (and downloadable PDF) of Mastering ArchiMate – Edition I, a book about the ArchiMate Enterprise Architecture language. My apologies for the inconvenience, but the book has its own full page now where information…
A while back I wrote the first post in this blog. It was about handling the secondary and tertiary architectures in your organization. Stuff like the application owner and the process owner and IT support etc. There, examples were given…
Now that ArchiMate 2.0 has been published it's time to deliver on a promise I made a while back. I have been pretty silent on this blog. I have lots of material but I have been working on an iBook…
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