Summary

Strategic decisions are usually made at the highest level of an organization. Enterprise architects can support decision makers best by helping them to visualize their thoughts and ideas by turning them into diagrams. It can take you multiple rounds to put what's in their heads on paper, but this effort will be appreciated if done right.

Implementation plans including phases and deliverables can also be modeled. Models should not include all the details that project management software provides, but they need to remain at the enterprise architecture level. The implementation architecture artifacts should align with other enterprise elements, while project management software will help in daily project management activities. These are two different worlds that need only to keep the traceability between them.

By reaching the end of this chapter, you are capable of building an EA repository using Sparx, or maybe you have already done that while practicing with the provided...