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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

Chapter 6: Modeling in the Technology Layer

One of the difficult tasks enterprise architects must tackle is describing technology environments at the correct level of abstraction. If the model is too detailed, as architects, we are seen as too prescriptive. If it's not detailed enough, we are being vague. Either of these conditions tends to lead to the ivory tower syndrome as we are seen as being too far from reality. Selecting the perfect level of granularity can sometimes seem like an art.

The creators of the ArchiMate® language recognized this fact and took it into consideration when designing the language. Each layer's elements are based on a small, core set of elements that have similar attributes across layers (see Figure 6.13 further on in this chapter). As you read through this chapter, you should see these similarities begin to appear. You should also begin to get a sense of the level of granularity necessary for architecture descriptions and how to create...

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