R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
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As people who have read this blog may know: I have a bit of serious experience with ArchiMate. Not just modelling: I've written a reasonably well-received book about it. It's basic explanation was clear enough for The Open Group to…
Read More Would people be interested in a 'Masterclass' #ArchiMate?
This YouTube video has proven to be useful to explain to organisations why Enterprise Architecture is useful. Description from the YouTube page: Meet Michael, he works at a your company. He needs support from IT to do his job, so…
Earlier, I wrote about an ongoing attempt to map #BPMN to #ArchiMate. Now that some time has passed, we have come to a solution, though at this stage it is not yet 100% complete. In a couple of posts, I…
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…
One licensee informed me of a good and affordable print shop for printing the Mastering ArchiMate book in a professional form (so, edge-to-edge, full color, spiral bound). It is Pixart Printing and he gave me the correct settings which I…
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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…
One of the most often heard complaints about ArchiMate is that the concept Capability is missing. People often use ArchiMate's Business Function for Capability as it comes closest. Are they right? And: What is 'Capability' and how should we model…
The method of distributing my Mastering ArchiMate book has the disadvantage that I have completely no idea how many people actually read my book. But after more than a month, I have learnt a few things. I made the book…
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…
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