Chapter 4: Maintaining Quality and Consistency in the Repository

After going through Chapter 3, Kick-Starting Your Enterprise Architecture Repository, you now have an enterprise architecture repository with a single artifact, an application context diagram for the Tracking App package. At this point, we need to step back and imagine where all of this may lead. This is just the first of many artifacts that are needed to represent your model-driven enterprise. You might be wondering how you can scale this effort so that others in your organization can help. You need a standard against which you can measure the quality and consistency of artifacts from various authors. Without such a standard, you would quickly run into problems with consistency and quality in your repository. Asking everyone in your organization to become experts in the ArchiMate® 3.1 notation is unreasonable.

In this chapter, we delve into modeling best practices and how to represent your model standards using...