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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

The copy-and-paste approach

We would be remiss if we didn't mention the simplest publishing mechanism of all, copy-and-paste. For simple, one-off communications and documents, this is indeed the simplest means of conveying model diagrams. Because most are already familiar with this approach, we won't spend much time on this subject. There are just a couple of things to go over for new Sparx users.

There are two ways to select and copy diagrams. You can use the menus by navigating to the following:

  • Layout > Diagram > Select > Select All Elements
  • Layout > Diagram > Select > Copy Selected Element(s)

You can also simply drag your mouse cursor over the elements you wish to copy and press Ctrl + C.

When it comes to pasting the clipboard contents, you may get a bit of a surprise. Sparx (Enterprise Architect version 15.2 and earlier) places a border around all diagrams, copied using the aforementioned means. Here's an example of the...