In November ’19, I gave a talk at The Open Group Amsterdam event and shared examples of C4 views created using Archi. This raised a lot of comments and questions that I’m going to answer in this post. The C4 Model The C4 Model is a set of architecture viewpoints designed by Simon Brown to […]
Why Archi?
In a previous post I explained why we should use ArchiMate in an Enterprise Architecture practice. Before moving on with “How to quickly create value with ArchiMate?“, I’d like to provide some guidance on modelling tools. About tooling When setting up an Enterprise Architecture capability, we will, at some point, have to choose a tool to write […]
Why ArchiMate?
This post is part of a series about the “How and Why of ArchiMate”. When I am asked the question “What is ArchiMate?“, I usually provide the same simple answer: “A (foreign) language for Enterprise Architecture“. But the real question people should ask is “Why ArchiMate?“. And here is my answer… Before even starting to […]
ArchOps: a new paradigm for EA Toolsets
By Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie Last week I had the great opportunity to co-present at The Open Group’s October Conference in Paris, France. After Phil Beauvoir presented a summary of Archi’s history and we described the challenges of ArchiMate 3.0, I spoke about a vision for the future of Archi, EA and the ArchiMate ecosystem, taking ideas from DevOps and […]
What is wrong with this picture? (TM)
If you know ArchiMate, there’s a good chance that you know Gerben Wierda‘s post series “What is wrong with this picture?”. This blog post is both a tribute to his work and an attempt to explain the importance of why you should be aware of the difference between core relations and derived ones. In his book […]