Main Publications

I’ve written two books, you can find them here:

The first is Mastering ArchiMate: a book about modelling with the enterprise architecture modelling language ArchiMate. There have been several editions, going back to the original 2012 edition (ArchiMate 1), the — almost completely rewritten — 2014 edition (ArchiMate 2, including a BPMN primer), the 2017 edition (ArchiMate 3.0.1 — ArchiMate 3 was so broken that I was unable to produce a book), the 2020 edition (ArchiMate 3.1).

An update to ArchiMate 3.2 was in the works. I had already produced the ‘ArchiMate 3.2 cheat sheets‘ (in several languages) for this. But then I ran into a bug in Adobe InDesign which makes my document uneditable for now. You can read about it here. Until Adobe fixes this bug (they have conformed my document is not corrupted and that it is a bug, but they keep on postponing fixing it) or I find a workaround (and I tried a lot already, including a move to QuarkXpress (but that is, it turns out, not a workable solution) I cannot finish that edition.

The second book is a small book called Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture (2015) and it is about making ‘design decisions’ in todays complex human-and-IT landscapes that organisations have become. It is targeted at management more than at architects.

Next to that, there are some collections of blog posts, presentations about several subjects over the years. I am mentioning one here, the collection of presentations and blog posts about Generative AI, called The ChatGPT and Friends Collection. This is a collection of posts that together will give you a decent insight into what these systems (fundamentally) can and cannot do. I stay away from deep tech (I will not explain a ‘perceptron’ or ‘transformer’ to you — that is totally irrelevant) but I focus on what it does in a more functional way. And I try to make clear when certain claims are nonsense (and there are many) or where they are misleading (many too).

[You do not have my permission to use any content on this site for training a Generative AI (or any comparable use), unless you can guarantee your system never misrepresents my content and provides a proper reference (URL) to the original in its output. If you want to use it in any other way, you need my explicit permission]