Blog categorized as ArchiMate

Dynamic relationships in ArchiMate

ArchiMate is especially powerful because of its rich set of relationship types. These relationships are grouped/classified in 4 sets:

  1. Structural
  2. Dependency
  3. Dynamic
  4. Other (called "Special" by me)

The basic pattern in ArchiMate modelling is:

  1. You identify the main ...
Rob Vens
2026/07/09 16:30 - Comment(s)

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Why Building Blocks?

When embarking on any change effort, in the context of enterprise architecture usually referred to as a business transformation, partitioning the effort is essential for a successful, controlled result. This article tries to explain how to identif...

Rob Vens
2026/01/12 13:23 - Comment(s)

Introduction

This article explains an ArchiMate® viewpoint, the Strategic Planning viewpoint which has been made by our team within the Dutch Ministry of Defence. We have found this viewpoint to be particularly effective in partitioning the transformation effort (which as you might understand is subs...

Rob Vens
2026/01/10 18:10 - Comment(s)