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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

Managing the shared repository

As the use of the shared repository grows, so grows the need to manage and care for it. Almost immediately on implementation, the shared repository needs an administrator or manager. In the beginning, we've usually relied on one or more knowledgeable users to perform administration and configuration tasks. As the use and number of users grow, you may find that this needs to change. In this section, we will take a look at the most common administrator tasks and functions. The topics we will cover in this section include the following:

  • Configuration management
  • Implementing security
  • Deleting and merging elements
  • Backup and restore
  • Automation

Configuration management

Many of the Sparx administration tasks can be found in the Configure tab, as depicted in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.8 – The Sparx Configure tab

Figure 10.8 – The Sparx Configure tab

As you can see, the functions on this tab relate to enterprise-wide...