This article introduces a complete, navigable and clickable representation of the ArchiMate metamodel standard. The model is created using UML. This is not because I wanted to translate ArchiMate into UML, but because UML should be well-suited to define a language such as ArchiMate in. And after all...

IT is tegenwoordig een belangrijk middel, zo niet het belangrijkste middel, om innovatie te realiseren en het verschil te maken met de concurrentie.

Source: www.managersonline.nl

De beweging binnen IT naar agile is reeds lang gaande — ikzelf ben daar sinds 1995 bij betrokken. Het artikel stipt een aan...

Or: don't use the architecture Decision Log as a control mechanism.

Tempting isn't it? All those architecture decisions get logged there. Favourite pastime of the control-freak enterprise architect: review the logged items and write comments on them, reset their state from accepted to rejected.

Don't....

Introduction

Most people I work with think of architecture governance as something imposed upon the populace from above. They see architects operating from a kind of control tower: architectural guidelines and rules, constantly fighting to uphold the norms they themselves concocted.

I do not thin...

Introduction

This article attempts to reconcile the ArchiMate modelling language with Business-Centred design principles, principles I strongly advocate.

ArchiMate as a language (or, as some would say, a grammar, since a rigid definition of its semantics does not exist) is very "traditional"...