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Tag: Enterprise Architecture
New Book, new blog
The site for the next book "Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture" has gone live. It will take some time still before the book is available, but I will already start blogging a bit about the subject. A welcome…
Welcome
Who needs another blog if the one you have is already reasonably successful? Well, I do. That is because that other blog is about the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelling language and this one is about enterprise architecture in general. And…
Why Enterprise Architecture – Animation
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…
Mapping #BPMN and #ArchiMate: About BPMN’s ‘Pool’
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…
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…
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…
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 