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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

By : Bahri, Joe Williams
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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

4.3 (7)
By: Bahri, Joe Williams

Overview of this book

Most organizations face challenges in defining and achieving evolved enterprise architecture practices, which can be a very lengthy process even if implemented correctly. Developers, for example, can build better solutions only if they receive the necessary design information from architects, and decision-makers can make appropriate changes within the organization only if they know the implications of doing so. The book starts by addressing the problems faced by enterprise architecture practitioners and provides solutions based on an agile approach to enterprise architecture, using ArchiMate® 3.1 as an industry standard and Sparx EA as the modeling tool. You'll learn with the help of a fictional organization that has three business units, each expecting something different from you as the enterprise architect. You'll build the practice, satisfy the different requirements of each business unit, and share the knowledge with others so they can follow your steps. Toward the end, you'll learn how to put the diagrams and the content that you have developed into documents, presentations, and web pages that can be published and shared with any stakeholder. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build a functional enterprise architecture practice that supports every part of your organization. You'll also have developed the necessary skills to populate your enterprise architecture repository with references and artifacts.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect
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Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository
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Section 3: Managing the Repository

Modeling the business structure

The business structure describes what the tangible elements are that compose the enterprise, and who is assigned to what. Modeling the business structure will answer questions such as the following:

  • What are the business units that comprise this enterprise?
  • What are the business roles that operate it, and who are the people assigned to these roles?
  • Who are our customers and partners?
  • What channels do these customers and partners use to access our services?

Now that we know the type of question we will answer in business structure models, let's start by defining the first business active structural element, which is the business actor.

Defining business actors

"A business actor represents a business entity that is capable of performing behavior." (https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/archimate3-doc/chap08.html#_Toc10045368)

Business actors can be internal or external to an enterprise. Customers and...

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