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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture
Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture: Design a mature enterprise architecture repository using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate® 3.1

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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

Chapter 1: Enterprise Architecture and Its Practicality

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that many organizations have adopted or have been motivated to adopt over the last two decades or so due to its promises to bridge the gaps between business and technology. EA is the art of defining and categorizing the elements that compose an enterprise and defining the relationships among these elements to get useful information that supports making strategic and tactical decisions. There are several frameworks that guide EA implementation, but the most popular one is TOGAF®.

This chapter starts by highlighting what made TOGAF® the de facto standard for implementing EA and puts the spotlight on the problems that most TOGAF® practitioners face – some (if not all) of which I am quite sure you will have faced. As I have learned, talking about problems is never helpful without providing solutions, so we will introduce a hands-on approach that has been extracted from years of practical experience in the EA domain to help you in aligning the theory with the practice smoothly and more productively.

Please remember that this book is not about teaching TOGAF®; I expect that you already have some knowledge of and experience with the framework and are looking for solutions to the problems that you may have already faced. It is also not about making comparisons between TOGAF® and other frameworks to show the advantages versus disadvantages of each. This book is based on TOGAF® and ArchiMate® only and will explain how to use them in a way that can help your organization to get quick, tangible outcomes from adopting them.

The following is a list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding TOGAF®
  • Introducing agile EA
  • Introducing ArchiMate®
  • Introducing Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Let's start by talking about the benefits and drawbacks of TOGAF®.

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  • Discover the various artifacts that enterprise architects need to develop for stakeholders to make sound decisions
  • Build a functional enterprise architecture repository that is rich in information, references, and metamodels
  • Learn how to use Sparx Enterprise Architect from scratch

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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for enterprise architects at all architectural layers and practices of any maturity level. Many of the artifacts suggested in this book are inspired by The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®); however, familiarity with TOGAF® is not required. Whether you work within the business, applications, data, or technology layers, this book covers examples that apply to your work. Although not mandatory, experience modeling in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect using any modeling language will be helpful. No prior knowledge of ArchiMate® is required to get started with this book.

What you will learn

  • Discover how enterprise architects can contribute to projects and departments within organizations
  • Use Sparx Enterprise Architect to build a rich architecture repository
  • Learn about the ArchiMate® 3.1 specification as you apply it in real-world projects
  • Use the focused metamodel technique to build the information necessary for maintaining your repository s consistency and accuracy
  • Understand the importance of keeping architectural artifacts simple yet eye-catching
  • Define an operational model that fits your initial needs and expands as required

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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Enterprise Architecture and Its Practicality Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Introducing the Practice Scenarios Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Kick-Starting Your Enterprise Architecture Repository Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Maintaining Quality and Consistency in the Repository Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Advanced Application Architecture Modeling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Modeling in the Technology Layer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Enterprise-Level Technology Architecture Models Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Business Architecture Models Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Modeling Strategy and Implementation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Managing the Repository Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Operating the EA Repository Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Publishing Model Content Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Cirby Oct 11, 2022
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I have been practicing enterprise architecture(EA) for a good while and have purchased many books looking for a better way to explain the value and methodology of EA. Especially important is how the use of a shared repository with agreed upon deliverables to document our EA process would help us in our work. I needed something ‘down to earth’, i.e. practical and I think this book really helped me in that regard.I found the practice scenarios in Chapter II extremely helpful in naming and describing the development of architecture documents along with their interface to the repository.Especially interesting to me was the connection made to User Stories. How to relate EA and its artifacts to the Agile methodology is not well understood and the identification of corresponding user stories was a real bonus.I bought the book looking for a way to improve the practice of EA at my firm and this book was really helpful to me and my colleagues with whom I shared it.The book is ‘practical’ as advertised and it did help me improve the day-to-day work that I do.
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Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl Jun 12, 2022
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This is a superb, lively, easy to follow, step-by-step, and comprehensive introduction into the most relevant Archimate 3.1 concepts using Sparx Systems’ Enterprise Architect (“Sparx EA”) as the underlying repository-based modelling tool. It is targeted primarily towards novice or early-stage enterprise architects who may want to get kick-start or rejuvenate their enterprise architecture work practices; more seasoned architects will find the book helpful if they need to turn to Archimate for the first time or when revisiting or reusing the standard after some hiatus.I especially liked the no-nonsense, down-to-earth language of the authors who thereby manage to link the (somewhat lofty and theoretical, I am ready to admit) concepts of TOGAF and Archimate to real-world situations enterprise architects and their stakeholders undoubtedly will encounter. All of the theoretical architectural deliberations are immediately modelled in Sparx EA – so the readers will also get a very good practical introduction into this tool as a by-product of studying the examples.The effectiveness of their approach especially for not so experience enterprise architects lies in the fact that they use a common (simplified, but realistic!) example enterprise as the concrete backdrop against which they construct use cases and problems for the enterprise architect to address and to solve. This allows them to clearly explain and demystify many of the seemingly superficial concepts of Archimate such as capability, function, service, or node, by relating metamodel terms directly to their exemplar company setting. Furthermore, they also introduce the concept of so-called “focused metamodels” (for Archimate) where they choose the most relevant entities of the various Archimate layers (application, technology & physical, business layer including strategy & implementation) such as “application component”, “node”, “business service”, “node”, or “gap”) and diagrammatically depict the most important typical relations this entity possesses in the Archimate metamodel. This very nicely complements the approach of the Archimate standard’s own documentation which typically depicts many entities and their respective relations for a single layer.I have actually studied and used the original Archimate standard which really is not such a bad piece to read but, alas, it’s a standard and, as such, has to be precise and not enjoyable. But reading the exposition and explanations of this book it was (almost) entertaining to get to know the authors’ opinion on how to actually use the concepts in practice. In passing, they also give crucial pieces of modelling advice, for instance, that contrary to their common name, “microservices” have to be modelled as “application components” in Archimate and rather not as “application services”: They also make the reader understand the (important) difference between these two concepts.While the book certainly is also attractive to any reader interested in doing enterprise architecture with the Archimate 3.1 standard alone, its greatest strength lies in the swiftness with which it links its architectural and modelling advice to the Sparx EA tool. Besides an excellent, step-by-step introduction on how to use the (admittedly, really powerful) modelling tool (including all relevant screen shots), the book also touches often overlooked but extremely helpful concepts Sparx EA supports such as switching to the list view or matrix view of diagrams, hierarchically linking diagrams, using layering and filtering to manage diagram complexity, importing XLS files containing architecture-relevant artifacts and relationships, and generating reports and publishing models. Because enterprise architects continuously deal with “as-is”, “to-be”, and several transition architectures at the same time, a dedicated section on how to efficiently model this is in Sparx EA is very welcomed. All of the described diagrams can be (freely) downloaded from GitHub in the form of chapter-specific Sparx EA repositories – a nice additional service for the readers!In addition, the book contains many very helpful pieces of advice to novice or early-career architects such as fitting all diagrams on a single page or spitting the view, aligning similar artifacts for better readability, or using a “sandbox” branch of an architecture as a playground for testing and parallel architecture development – all well-established and proven practices for decades! The book deservedly will get a prominent spot right between my Archimate 3.1 standard and Lankhorst’s more academic “Enterprise Architecture at Work”.Finally, I am confident that readers of “Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture” will be able to understand, use, and appreciate Archimate’s intricacies and broad applicability much better and much faster than just by trying and experimenting with this powerful enterprise architecture modeling standard and method alone.
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Timothy D. Jul 12, 2022
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Great Architecture book that delves into bridging actual implementation of an Architecture Framework and a Tool. There are many books on Architecture Frameworks, and there are many tool specific books, but very few that explain how to implement a framework in a tool.Mudar and Williams have taken the ArchiMate 3.1 Framework which can be easily transposed onto other modeling standards such as UML, TOGAF, BPMN and created a step by step process for implementing a repository. As most tools are fairly similar for modeling, I would recommend this book for those that are using other UML Modeling tools as well.Very well written as it takes a standard (ArchiMate) and shows how to implement using an imaginary shipping company. If you do not know ArchiMate, this book is a great introduction. If you do, this book is a very good implementation guide.Finally, one of the best parts of this book is the guides for implementing architectural frameworks in a repository. If you use another framework, and even another tool, the best practices in implementing a repository make this book valuable for starting up a new architectural repository (or optimizing one currently in use).
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Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl Jun 13, 2022
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This is a superb, lively, easy to follow, step-by-step, and comprehensive introduction into the most relevant Archimate 3.1 concepts using Sparx Systems’ Enterprise Architect (“Sparx EA”) as the underlying repository-based modelling tool. It is targeted primarily towards novice or early-stage enterprise architects who may want to kick-start or rejuvenate their enterprise architecture work practices; more seasoned architects will find the book helpful if they need to turn to Archimate for the first time or when revisiting or reusing the standard after some hiatus.I especially liked the no-nonsense, down-to-earth language of the authors who thereby manage to link the (somewhat lofty and theoretical, I am ready to admit) concepts of TOGAF and Archimate to real-world situations enterprise architects and their stakeholders undoubtedly will encounter. All of the theoretical architectural deliberations are immediately modelled in Sparx EA – so the readers will also get a very good practical introduction into this tool as a by-product of studying the examples.The effectiveness of their approach especially for not so experience enterprise architects lies in the fact that they use a common (simplified, but realistic!) example enterprise as the concrete backdrop against which they construct use cases and problems for the enterprise architect to address and to solve. This allows them to clearly explain and demystify many of the seemingly superficial concepts of Archimate such as capability, function, service, or node, by relating metamodel terms directly to their exemplar company setting. Furthermore, they also introduce the concept of so-called “focused metamodels” (for Archimate) where they choose the most relevant entities of the various Archimate layers (application, technology & physical, business layer including strategy & implementation) such as “application component”, “node”, “business service”, “node”, or “gap”) and diagrammatically depict the most important typical relations this entity possesses in the Archimate metamodel. This very nicely complements the approach of the Archimate standard’s own documentation which typically depicts many entities and their respective relations for a single layer.I have actually studied and used the original Archimate standard which really is not such a bad piece to read but, alas, it’s a standard and, as such, has to be precise and not enjoyable. But reading the exposition and explanations of this book it was (almost) entertaining to get to know the authors’ opinion on how to actually use the concepts in practice. In passing, they also give crucial pieces of modelling advice, for instance, that contrary to their common name, “microservices” have to be modelled as “application components” in Archimate and rather not as “application services”: They also make the reader understand the (important) difference between these two concepts.While the book certainly is also attractive to any reader interested in doing enterprise architecture with the Archimate 3.1 standard alone, its greatest strength lies in the swiftness with which it links its architectural and modelling advice to the Sparx EA tool. Besides an excellent, step-by-step introduction on how to use the (admittedly, really powerful) modelling tool (including all relevant screen shots), the book also touches often overlooked but extremely helpful concepts Sparx EA supports such as switching to the list view or matrix view of diagrams, hierarchically linking diagrams, using layering and filtering to manage diagram complexity, importing XLS files containing architecture-relevant artifacts and relationships, and generating reports and publishing models. Because enterprise architects continuously deal with “as-is”, “to-be”, and several transition architectures at the same time, a dedicated section on how to efficiently model this is in Sparx EA is very welcomed. All of the described diagrams can be (freely) downloaded from GitHub in the form of chapter-specific Sparx EA repositories – a nice additional service for the readers!In addition, the book contains many very helpful pieces of advice to novice or early-career architects such as fitting all diagrams on a single page or spitting the view, aligning similar artifacts for better readability, or using a “sandbox” branch of an architecture as a playground for testing and parallel architecture development – all well-established and proven practices for decades! The book deservedly will get a prominent spot right between my Archimate 3.1 standard and Lankhorst’s more academic “Enterprise Architecture at Work”.Finally, I am confident that readers of “Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture” will be able to understand, use, and appreciate Archimate’s intricacies and broad applicability much better and much faster than just by trying and experimenting with this powerful enterprise architecture modeling standard and method alone.
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Howard Bolling May 30, 2022
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I've been in environments with failed EA practices, with struggling EA practices, with developing practices, and with none at all. Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture is helpful in all of them.The "middle-out" organization of the book couples effectively with the increasing levels of detail as you build a metamodel of a business and gain the skills to implement a business model as an Enterprise Architect, a Solution Architect, or a Business Architect. Mudar's use of the Archimate standard provides a foundation to build on either with the tool he describes in the book or with other available, low-cost tools.If you're curious about how to implement an effective Enterprise Architecture, this book is an invaluable introduction and reference. Although it doesn't provide a guide for navigating the politics and organizational stresses of an EA implementation, its comprehensive explanation of models provides a valuable backdrop for architects implementing EA, rather than just talking about it.I bought the paperback format because I hang sticky notes off pages for easy reference, and the book's physicality forces me to take my hands off the keyboard and my brain off the minutiae. The sheer amount and interrelatedness of the reference material, though, begs for the Kindle edition.
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