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…
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The Book is Done
Well, finally, the book is done! 132 pages A4 (cover to cover) with 176 diagrams (including a few duplicates). Next week after The Open Group Conference, Barcelona, I'll make the files available. There will be two versions of the PDF:…
Coming Soon: a new Book on ArchiMate
I have been pretty silent for a while on this blog. The reason is that I decided to put my experiences in an educational book instead of a blog. I started working on this early this year. Most of it…
Simplified modeling of roles related to IT
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…
Modeling Risks (and Security and more)
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…
Application Deployment Patterns
ArchiMate covers the standard three layers of enterprise architecture: business (products, business processes, business functions, business objects, roles, actors, etc.), application (application components, application functions, application services, data objects, etc.) and infrastructure (devices, nodes, networks, infrastructure services, artifacts), the infrastructure…
Modeling Web Browser Use
In a previous post, I wrote about modeling spreadsheets. In it, I described two methods of modeling these. I settled on modeling the Excel application not as an Application Component, but as an Infrastructure Service. That post laid the ground…
ArchiMate `Problem Areas’: Business Role
I like ArchiMate, but, being an Enterprise Architect (and thus rather pigheaded), I have my criticisms. In this post, I’ll be discussing what I would call a ‘Problem Area’ of ArchiMate: Business Role. Note: the content of this post has…
Modeling GOFBF
In a previous post, I discussed the structural/behavioural divide in ArchiMate and how it differs from GOFBF (Good Old-Fashioned Business Function, the one where structure encapsulates behaviour). In this (short) post, I’ll show a way to model this in ArchiMate.…
Business Process versus Business Function
A rather tricky part of ArchiMate is the difference between Business Process and Business Function. Both stand for behaviour at the Business Level. Both generally encapsulate in the end the same activities. Choosing between a Business Function and a Business…
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 