Did you ever wonder what a strange beast the Grouping Relation in the ArchiMate zoo of elements and relations is? According to the standard it is a 'relation'. It is, however, one of the weirdest elements of ArchiMate. Officially it…
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ArchiMate doesn’t make communication to management easier
Architects generally wrestle with the problem of communicating their complex world of dependencies to stakeholders. Those that created the ArchiMate language hoped that making a better language would enable clearer communication. While ArchiMate does enable more precise communication than your average…
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About analysis of ArchiMate models
A while back, I wrote in the blog post ArchiMate is overrated (and underrated) that using ArchiMate doesn't really have that much added value for communicating simple, high-level views to stakeholders (users, management), but its structure does bring advantages that enables us to…
Losing a Limpet – What happens when we don’t have Enterprise Architecture?
Recently, I had a conversation with someone about how to do enterprise architecture. I prepared that conversation by trying to condense my basic argument for the`enterprise chess' approach to the absolute minimum. I started out with the question: "Suppose we don't…
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New ‘On Slippery Ice’ column at EAPJ: “The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA”
Short post today: my new column on the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal, titled "The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA" has been published. A somewhat technical subject: service oriented architectures and performance issues. With a few ArchiMate views added to the…
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Modelling Self-Service in #ArchiMate
I wrote a post on Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture about ways to look at self-service from an architectural perspective: "I, Robot" – there is no such thing as 'Customer Self-Service'. In it, I argue that saying that…
“I, Robot” – there is no such thing as ‘Customer Self-Service’
Recently, Samuel Holcman published the short Outside-In vs. Inside-Out in Enterprise Architecture document and announced it on LinkedIn. The issue he raises is that the clients of organisations more and more seem to become the ones that perform the organisation's processes (e.g. self-service),…
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Free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available
I've made a free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available. It contains the Prologue Loosely Coupled Spaghetti, and the Table of Contents. Please go the the home page of the book.
The Book is available
Just a short note today that the book Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is available as a paperback and will over the coming weeks appear on Amazon and other online traders of physical books such as Barnes &…
Database Triggers in #ArchiMate — And a Wish
Recently, in a discussion in the ArchiMate LinkedIn Group, Tarun Godhwani started a discussion on modelling the triggers and tables of a database. Of course, one can wonder if it is useful to model these, but in case they are, the…
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