Book Image

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

By : Mudar Bahri, Joe Williams
Book Image

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

By: Mudar 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)
1
Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect
4
Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository
12
Section 3: Managing the Repository

Technical requirements

If you want to practice modeling while reading to achieve the best results, you need Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect. If you do not have a licensed copy, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial version from the Sparx Systems website (https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial/request.html).

We will continue adding the content of this chapter to the EA repository that we built in the previous chapters. If you want, you can download the repository file of this chapter from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Model-Driven-Enterprise-Architecture/blob/main/Chapter08/EA%20Repository.eapx instead of starting from scratch. Some of the steps in this chapter depend on elements that have been already created in the repository, so it is best not to start this chapter with an empty repository.

We will use the following ArchiMate® 3.1 specification chapters to guide our development: