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For most of the last decade, we’ve seen a steady growth in the use of a simple “recommended practice” in the world of software architecture. Well known by it’s designation, IEEE-1471 is officially titled “ Recommended Practice for Architectural
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Today marks the end of a long dry spell. As of today, I’m back in print with an article in the Architecture Journal called “ Towards an Enterprise Business Motivation Model .” Of interest to Business Architects, Strategists, Business Planners, and
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A friend was kind enough to remind me, this morning, that Archimate is still kicking around and making noises. In fact, for a modeling language that’s been in quiet development for many years, Archimate having something of a rebirth as it is now part
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Well, it is February 2nd, and today, the Open Group is announcing the general availability of TOGAF version 9.0 . For those of you not familiar with TOGAF, it is an ambitious and maturing Enterprise Architecture Framework created by the members
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As I mentioned in my last post , we have produced an interesting conceptual model of IT as a business, from Business Motivation all the way through to Operations. For those of you who know I’m a SOA promoter: yes, I can represent a composite application
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Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft loves standards. We don’t always play well with standards bodies, but it doesn’t mean that, operationally, we don’t benefit as much as the next guy from standards. From an IT perspective, we cannot be
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I'm always a bit dismayed when I hear the following terms mixed up, or combined: SOA service and business service. In my mind, these things are different. In one sense, they are related, but indirectly. A business service is a function (or capability)
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I have an open question. I'd love to get community feedback. A process can be decomposed into activities. Who performs the activities? Are activities performed by roles with actors assigned to those roles, or are activities performed by actors in roles?
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Metadata is a difficult word to define, or so it would appear. After all, why is it that the best that Wikipedia can do is: Metadata ( meta data , or sometimes metainformation ) is "data about data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe
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I always learn more from failure than from success. In that spirit, I'll share a (small) failure with you. In my last post ( Working in the dark ), I mentioned that I would be discussing the metamodel [domain model] underlying all the things we do in
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If we listen to smart people who create development processes, we hear things like "collect requirements" and "understand business process." We then go and write use cases, design software components, and write code. Test
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