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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

Technical requirements

This chapter does not have any additional technical requirements other than having Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA). 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 in the same EA repository that we built in Chapter 3, Kick-Starting Your Enterprise Architecture Repository, and Chapter 4, Maintaining Quality and Consistency in the Repository. If you have not read these two chapters, we strongly advise you to read them first and then come back to read this chapter, as many step-by-step instructions that have been detailed in these two chapters have been skipped or summarized in this chapter to avoid repetitive information here and there.

If you want to practice while reading, you can download the repository file of Chapter 4,Maintaining Quality and Consistency in...