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…
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Mapping #BPMN and #ArchiMate, first thoughts
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…
Abstraction versus Precision in ArchiMate
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…
Style Police?
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…
Announcing Mastering ArchiMate Edition 1
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…
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…
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 