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SPEM in the version 2.0 proposal defined this useful diagram:
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to Acquire team resources. Once the overall plan for the EA practice has been agreed, a team should be planned and...
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An inventory of Vendors and COTS products that are in a lifecycle of use.
This could range from large COTS packages right down to simple Libaries of code developers use, including Open...
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This is a list of Concepts made up of definitions, ideas, terminology, etc.
Viewpoints
Views
Motivation modelling concepts
AEA Dimension
AEA Services
AEA Ideas Backlog
AEA Modelling
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Toying with the idea of defining a list of Dimensions that are possible constructs of Views on EA such as:
Six interrogatives dimension - Who, Why, Where, When, What, How (Zachman)
Time dimension...
This page is used for logging any ideas or "to do" list items that might be relevant to Agile EA:
Financial Considerations
Financial tracking of Enterprise Architect work done on Projects. (Is...
Iterations (or Sprints as they are known in SCRUM) are short sharp goal driven, risk mitigation durations of time in which a set of highest priority backlog items are selected for action.
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All the forms of Modelling that can be successfully used for modelling Enterprise Architectures:
UML
BPMN
Archimate
Aris modelling language
Entity relationship modelling
??? others
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Delivered at the TOGAF conference in Cape Town March 2007 Putting the 'Agile' into an EA process
Andrew Johnston's 2006 Presentation on Agile Architecture
These are the concepts and ideas the AgileEA Process is derived from:
This page is to describe the Services concept and service relationships to other concepts.
This is a great diagram of a Services Context
Our view of how services are defined Service...
This consists of
Multi Process Views
Process
Phases
Capability pattern
Discipline
Roles
Workproduct list
EA Vision
EA Goals
As of 2008-09-04, we are not going to this page up to date.
Instead see [http://www.agileea.com/portal/index.php/whitepapers.html] but you will need to register on the Main AgileEA.com site to read...
These are the Videos created so far:
Whirl wind tour of the Agile EA - Part1
Whirl wind tour of the Agile EA - Part2
Who: Anyone who has experience in Enterprise Architecture, Process and feels the need to get involved. (Potential Committers click here)
What: To collaborate on and deliver an open version 1.0...
Made up of:
What is ea
What problems does Agile EA solve
aea-Vision
aea-Mission
aea-Principles
aea-Process
aea-Process model
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The Agile Enterprise Architecture Process is based upon the following Principles (in no particular order of importance):
The Agile EA Princples List
The TOGAF Architecture Principles.
The Agile...
Aim to store single instance of the truth - the Enterprise knowledge - Just as all business these days stores all the business products, transactions and static data, so too should the base...
See the Agile Enterprise Architecture Operational Process here: http://process.AgileEA.com and | www.AgileEA.com main site.
Processes / Methods we can use / extend as a basis for this work:
The...
This is the basic model structure we will use to define our Agile EA Process:
(Taken from this page on the EPF Composer Tool - Architecture )
Method Content
Method content describes roles, the...
The attached forum discussion page (click on Discuss below) lists the date and release Id. The discussion page contains the detail, which we suggest you link to using RSS.
This diagram show the mapping between the Agile EA and the TOGAF ADM.
You might have to scroll down…….
The Ultimate Vision:
To create a Freely downloadable, stand-alone plug-in and open Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) plug-in for Agile Enterprise Architecture (AEA).
This AEA Process should be...
What is an Application? What is a System? What is a Service? Different cultures, countries and people have different names for the same thing, so it is difficult to define a standard term that...
This Viewpoint is usually taken by the Application Architect or Information Systems Architect
Where they want to see the Enterprise (or sub-set of) view of the following views:
This is a view of all the Applications in the Enterprise and how they integrate to one another.
It would make use of the following patters: EAI patterns
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All Risks on a specified Application.
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An application service is a particular Service that is used in an Application
There could be many of these; a list of Services that are used in building an Applications or Systems for the...
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This may also be called Systems View although Systems imply both Hardware and Software. System is a VERY overloaded term.
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An inventory or list of all Applications that the Enterprise uses.
This terminology is typically the subject of debate on this issue.
See: Systems View
The modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. Based on IEEE 1471 and UML.
More information can be found on
http://archimate.telin.nl or http://www.archimate.com
Descriptions of these can be found here:
TOGAF Architectural patterns
Wikipedia on Architectural Patterns
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The three layers of Architecture are:
Enterprise Architecture Layer
Segment Architecture Layer
Solution Architecture Layer
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According to the Federal EA Framework (FEAF) there are three levels of Architecture:
Enterprise Architecture
Segment Architecture
Solution Architecture
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Term used to describe an input or output to an Activity performed by a Role
A more permanent product of work that will remain as long as the Architecture remains, usually models or textual...
These are typically Views of a specific set of Artefacts which make sense in a particular context or for a particular Viewpoint
Examples of these might be:
Project Brief
Business Architecture...
Artifact relationships are defined as the relationships between the different Atomic Artifact elements.
Examples are:
Stakeholders to Business Services
Business Services to Business...
Term used to describe an input or output to an Activity performed by a Role
A more permanent product of work that will remain as long as the Architecture remains, usually models or textual...
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Cross cutting concern. See Aspect Orientation.
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Atomic artifact elements are the absolute base elements necessary to build up more complext Artefacts.
e.g. of Base Atomic Artefact elements are:
Business Direction
Business Approach
Buinsess...
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_Scorecard
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A base of a collection of artifacts that is kept. This may have been at a particular know point in time.
Think of a baseline as a verion of a set versions of atomic-artifacts (these could be...
See Business Motivation Model
Describe Business Process Modelling Notation here…
OMG BPMN
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Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_activity_monitoring
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The Approach taken to realise the Direction:
Strategy
Mission
Programme
Project
Project Phase
Milestone
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Business Motivation = Business Motivation models - including Strategy, Vision, mission, etc.
Business Processes - Business Process Models
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The Domain within Enterprise Architecture that focusses on the Business aspects of the Enterprise and it's Enterprise Architecture.
A View into the Enterprise Architecture filtered specfically on everything to do with Business Architecture.
It is the perspective that most Business People would want to look at Enterprise...
The element of Motivation within the Business Architecture Domain
See also BMM, Business Motivation Model
All Behaviour in the Business.
Flows and processes rather than Structure and static items.
A View into the Enterprise Architecture filtered specfically on everything to do with Business Architecture, further filtered on the Behavioural aspects of the Architecture.
Its the perspective...
A view of the Business Cases on all items in the Enterprise Architecture, or for that matter in the Enterprise as a whole.
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The direction a business takes. Such as:
Vision
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Objects and Information the Business uses.
See domain models.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Intelligence
A composite view of a collection of different interfaces between the internal and external sides of the business, such as Party, Roles, Business Actors, Markets, Locations, Business Services, etc.
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See OMG BMM and Business Rules Group
See also motivation-modelling-concepts
This model shows the generic Business Motivation Model (with extensions to what we propose for Principles and Best Practices)
Click on diagram and take it up to 100% to see it clearly.
The blue...
These are Business Motivation Modelling sources:
Business Motivation Model (BMM)
Business Rules Group
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Roles, Organisational units, People, Person, Role and the interaction between all of these,
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See Business processes.
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_modeling
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_reengineering
All Risks on a specified business.
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The Conceptual and required Security for the business.
In this context this also translates into manual and physical security measures around business locations, offices, processes, etc.
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A View into the Enterprise Architecture filtered specfically on everything to do with Business Architecture, further filtered on Business Stakeholders.
It is the perspective that Business...
A View of all Business Strategy within the Enterprise.
See: Business Motivation Model
A View into the Enterprise Architecture filtered specfically on everything to do with Business Architecture, further filtered on the Structural aspects of the Architecture.
Its the perspective that...
All Structure, static entities and their relationships to one another.
As opposed to flows, behaviour, activities and processes.
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A Business Use Case as defined by the Rational Unified Process (RUP).
See: Business Process or End-to-end Business Process
These capability patterns are Capabilities used within the sense of EPF-Composer. As opposed to Business Capabilities of Business Services, etc. - although they are closely related and are probably...
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A discipline defined to group all Change Control Activities together.
We need people who are actively engaged in Enterprise Architecture as Enterprise Architects, and people who have knowledge of software development especially the newer Agile and Adaptive processes...
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Connectivity of networks of people and/or technology or both.
LANs, WANs, telephones, social netwoprks, etc.
A discipline to group all Communication Activities.
This is a list of Complex WorkProducts / Artefacts / Deliverables
Where by Complex we mean: generated from many different related Atomic Artefacts
Enterprise Context
Enterprise Model of...
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A discipline to group all configuration management activites together.
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If you would like to get involved with this EA process discussion, please join as a member of the wiki site and post messages on the forum.
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See details for the wiki definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Success_Factor
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A view of anything to do with the data aspects within the Enterprise.
Data is found in every aspect of computing and hece could manifest itself at any level of architecture:
Business...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to define a starting point for the Services to be offered by the EA practice (this is likely to change over time as it...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to define EA process organisation and relationships.
For the EA Practice team to understand its own operational process,...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to define a basic set of EA Principles and Standards. (Only for the EA practice, not for the whole organisation) These...
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This Business Use Case / Capability defines a basic EA Vision and Mission that should be agreed by the team to communicate to the senior sponsors. Process steps are:
Define a...
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The term as described by SPEM is: (To do)
Term used to describe an input or output to an Activity performed by a Role
An interim product of work (during a project) - a means to an end to offer...
In the software development sense, delivery processes are a collection of one or many lifecycles that produce working software. They might be made up of a set of repeatable base Capability...
Ideally this Agile EA Process should give people some form of starter Taxonomy and Ontology (particularly at the Technology & Information System levels), which contains as much as possible so...
This capability is to define a base Enterprise Architecture for the organisation. Primarily the Technology Architecture, then the Information systems architecture then the Business Architecture
A Workproduct view is probably one of the most useful Views from an EA Practice Viewpoint.
It describes all the Atomic Artifact elements, the Artifact Relationships and the Artifact Collections of...
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This Business Use Case develops a proposal to formally put forward the establishment of an Enterprise Architecture Practice within the organisation....
Looking at Systems from are perspective of a Developer (or in some cases) an Implementor of ready made COTS systems.
Deployment of Software on different Development Environment servers and networks.
See also: Production Deployment View
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Disciplines used to be the fundamental building block around which all the Unified Process (UP) processes were built upon.
More recently it seems as through in the committers of the EPF Composer...
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Why does EA exist? What are its primary goals?
Connect business strategy to application systems - Connect business strategy to the IT system by providing an overall blueprint of the business...
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An EA Practice is defined as:
The operation or behaviour of a team of Enterprise Architects. The knowledge of the job done in reality.
a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their...
This is looking from an EA Practice Viewpoint at all the work done at any one point in time by the EA Practice, across all projects and internal work.
This view shows the process for all work for...
This view shows the EA Project Involvement Viewpoint. The EA team looks at the process they follow for their involvement in any one project. It separates out all other work shows the process that...
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This is a Strategic View of the Enterprise Architecture team. What is the EA Strategy?
See: Business Motivation Model
What is the ultimate goal of any Enterprise Architecture Practice?
To manage architectural knowledge about the Enterprise so that all in the Enterprise are in a position to continuously improve...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to ensure team training. Once the overall plan for the EA Practice has been agreed, the team training should be planned,...
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An Architect that looks at the big picture Architecture for the organisation / enterprise.
There is a great definition on the IT Toolbox wiki
At a higher level overall than a Solution Architect,...
A full single view summary description of the whole Enterprise Architecture.
Made up of the:
Business Architecture Description (BAD)
Systems Architecture Description (SAD)
Technology Architecture...
Enterprise Architecture (Software Developers or Project Managers (segment) (view)) = The development of a coherent set of Application Architectures for an Enterprise level system or set of...
Enterprise Architecture (CEO, CIO (enterprise or holisitc view)) = the management and definition of the Architecture of the Enterprise (set of organisations) that includes everything from the...
An overall contextual structure that shows the place holders for various Enterprise Architecture elements used.
A model of the Enterprise Architecture Framework used for the particular organisation.
This Model may have many Views on it and therefore many diagrams that make up the EA framework.
A view of all Risk across the Enterprise Architecture.
A Strategy at an Enterprise level for the Architecture that defines the enterprise as a whole, this includes many views on Architecture but mainly; Business Architecture, Information Systems...
A Strategy at an Enterprise level for the Business that enterprise does.
All external items collated around the industry and environment that influence the enterprise, such as:
Regulation
Physical Environment (Environmental such as Polution, Greenhouse gasses,...
All influences that happen within the Enterprise which affect or potentially could effect the business, such as:
Resources
Infrastructure
Habits
Issues
Assumptions
Management perogatives
Corporate...
A single model on a large page of a collection of thumbnail diagrams of each significant modelling diagram used in the EA Repository.
A good definition for this can be found on the IT toolbox wiki here
EPF COmposer is the name of the Software Tool (Small System) that is the output of the open source Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) Project.
It is a tool that has been built using the Eclipse IDE...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to establish an EA planning process.
In order to function efficiently an EA Practice or Project should follow the basic...
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This Business Use Case/Capability describes a process to establish an Ontology.
Ontology is the definition of terms meanings and their inter-relationship structure. To a certain...
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This Business Use Case/Capability describes a process to establish a Taxonomy. Taxonomy can be thought of as a skeleton of the building blocks for the whole of the Enterprise...
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This would be all the specific Phases, Iterations, Activities, Tasks descriptors and Milestones necessary to describe how an EA Practice would "Establish Toolset of the EA Practice"
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Costs of Projects, Architecture, etc.
See also Project Cost View.
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Looking at the Enterprise Architcture filtered on a Financial point of view.
This may have two aspects to it:
Finances in terms of the Architecture and its coponents
Business Architecture w.r.t....
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Some terminology we came up with:
Anarchitecture = Anarchy driven Architecture. Moving from Anarchy to Anarchitecture to An Architecture. - Charles Edwards
Markitecture = Marketing Architecture...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to gather inventory of Application systems in the organisation.
Starting from existing information in the organisation and...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to gather inventory of business processes in the organisation.
Starting from existing information in the organisation and...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to gather inventory of Technologies in the organisation.
Starting from existing information in the organisation and from...
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A Goal is defined as…
(Suggest looking at the Business Motivation Model for this)
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If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options.
To create a link to a new page,...
EA Risk Management (in relation to Iterative development)
EA Roles
EA Phases
EA Disciplines
EA Iterations
EA Segement Projects
EA Leadership
EA Governance
EA Funding and Invenstment
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to identify and implement tools to support enterprise architecture.
At some point it will become evident that the correct...
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It is important for the EA Champion to obtain a Sponsor from the business in order to help push forward the ideas and concepts of Enterprise Architecture.
This...
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A view of all Information Risk in the Enterprise (more specifically in this case the Enterprise Architecture)
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Typically made up of a collection of Application and the bulk of the Data aspects. (data can exist anywhere in the Enterprise Architecture) see Data view.
A View into the Enterprise Architecture filtered specfically on everything to do with Information Systems Architecture.
It is the perspective of the Information Systems within the Enterprise...
All security involving the Services, Applications, Data.
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Telephony, LANs, WANs, VLANs, VPNs, SANs, Loadbalancers, etc.
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Computers, Servers, Desktops, Laptops, Mobile Computers, Grids, etc.
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Firewalls, Routers, Anti Virus, SPAM filters, Active directory, etc.
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SAN, DAS, Disk drives (internal and external), NAS, etc.
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Routers, Servers, Desktops, Laptops, Mobile devices, Printers, Storage, Memory, Switches, Firewalls, Load balancer, etc.
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Runtime items:
O/S, DB Servers, App Servers, Web servers, Software Firewalls, Software Clusters, software load balancer, etc.
A view which only shows anything Infrastructure centric, such as
Infrastructure Software (O/S, DB Servers, App Servers, Web servers, Firewalls, Clusters, load balancer, etc.) or Infrastructure...
Use this to invite others who you think would be interested in both:
Agile and Enterprise Architecture working together.
Module InviteByMembers does not exist or can not be used within this site.
A View of all the Information Systems and Technology Strategy in the Enterprise. This is a lower (fractal) level of the Enterpise View of Strategy.
See: Business Motivation Model
The definition of the term Iteration in the context of software development - iterative and incremental development with some explanation from wikipedia
Look at Scrum Management or Adaptive...
While JAD techniques were initially implemented out of a need for Software developers to interact directly with the Business, it is a fantastic technique which is just as useful in principle for...
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Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicators
Key perfomance indicator.
A list or model of the Organisation, Services, Process or other lifecycles within the organisation.
A list or model of the Locations which effect the organisation, system or technology.
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M0 level: This is the Data instance and instance collection level
Modelling them rigourously
Atomic WorkProduct
Collection of Atomic Workproducts
M0 Data instance
Collection of M0 Data...
M1 level: This is the modelling level
UML2 Modelling
Class diagram (collection of modelling elements)
Activity diagram (collection of modelling elements)
State diagram (collection of modelling...
M2 level: This is the Notation or meta-modelling level (where the Modelling notation is defined)
UML2
Entity
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Association (atomic modelling...
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This Business Use Case / Capability describes a process to Manage EA Risks. Risk management is the management of uncertainty. An uncertainty could be a Risk in its negative form...
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A Milestone in the context of a Phase is a point in time that has an attached set of Goals and Objectives, that have to have been met in order to proceed to the next Phase.
It is a point in time by...
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A composite list of various sub-Views from items such as Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives, Drivers, Constraints.
See business motivation model
Using the term 'Motivation' in the sense of Vision, Strategy, Direction, and other inter-related terms form the business motivation model
A Motivation Viewpoint is the perspective taken by people...
These are sources of Motivation Modelling
Business Motivation Model (BMM)
Business Rules Group
Business Motivation Model (class diagram showing relationships)
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An example done in UML using...
There are probably three Views of an Enterprise Architecture Practice as they do their work.
EA Practice View
Software Development UP View
EA Project Involvement View
There is also the comparison...
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Wikipedia's definition of Ontology
A list or model of the organisation structure, and its relationship to other related entities such as Projects, Stakeholders, Business Actors, etc.
The term as described by SPEM is: (To do)
Term used to describe an input or output to an Activity performed by a Role
A result of some work done, but not physical or tangible. Usually an agreement,...
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Could also be called Party View
A View of all risks between the organisation and the (business) partners of the organisation. (more specifically in this context with an Enterprise Architecture filter on all information.)
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Also B2B Services, computer to computer or system to system services.
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Could also be called Particpant View
A view of all to do with Patterns in the Enterprise Architecture.
To answer questions like:
What Patterns are being used in the Applications?
What Patterns could we use in the Enterprise...
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Humans.
A human involvement view of the Enterprise, or the Systemor the technology.
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A Phase is defined as….
We need to get some common agreement on what make up the phases of the Agile EA.
The current suggestion for the EA Practice View is:
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Concrete, Actual, Tangible.
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Polls on:
What does Enterprise Architecture try and achieve?
Would you use an Agile approach to Enterprise Architecture?
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In EPF-composer terms the Processes or dynamic aspects are described by the following two constructs:
Capability Patterns
Delivery Processes
One of the Disciplines defined to group all aspects of:
Enterprise Architecture Operational Processes
Enterprise Architecture Tooling
A Role that looks at the Process an EA Practice would require in order to fine tune the process the team follows.
They would be responsible for configuring the Roles, the Activityies, Workproducts,...
A Role which looks at the Software Development Process on larger teams. See Software Process Engineer.
A view of processes in the Enterprise (mainly Business level but they could be at any level System, Data, Technology, etc.)
Typically this is a Dynamic or behavioural view. Consists of flow,...
A list or model of Server & Network nodes, the basic connectivity and the software running on the Server nodes.
See also: Development Deployment View
A view of what (business) Services the IT Production offers to the business.
Using the term 'Production' in the meaning of the noun the end-product area:
The viewpoint or perspective from which people would look at Application and Infrastructure Systems that run Live in...
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All Assumptions on a particular Project.
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A view of costs on a Project. A list of IT Projects, the costs involved, the number of resources allocated, etc.
Also see Financial View, Project View or Resource View
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All Risks on a specified Project.
Understanding the inter-relationships and dependencies between Application Systems (IT Products) so that the Projects established are not only based upon financial issues, but also based upon...
The idea of Project shaping from an Architectural Viewpoint is quite a strong one. Typically Projects are shaped by IT management from a Financial Viewpoint only.
While a financial viewpoint is no...
Architectural shaping of projects such as dependencies, technologies, etc. as opposed to Project Cost View or Project Resource View
A view of all Projects in their various states.
How does each one affect the Architecture? What is being done froma an Architectural perspective on this Project? How does it fit into the overall...
This is a pre-Unified Process Phase which is defined to allow funds for a small team of people to establish the feasibility of doing a project, or to obtain enough funding to instantiate an...
The Inception Phase on a Project is all about defining the Business Case, Architectural Scope, Test Scope and Requirement Scope, etc. for a Project.
It's about getting to a go / no-go milestone for...
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Accountable (The resource ultimately accountable for the completion of the task- there must be...
Per Kroll on what is Eclipse Process Framework
Click here for Per Kroll on what is Eclipse Process Framework
Service Oriented Architecture 101
Agile Estimation and planning 1 (Mike...
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Lists of resources used on Projects, Architectures, etc.
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The perspective of the Enterprise Architecture filtered upon all things to do with Risk.
This could be the Business Architecture of how Risk is managed within the Enterprise.
This could be the...
A Roadmap is a pre-determined set of states that any particular System (or set of systems) is planned to be in at certain points in time.
Typically it starts with the current state, goes through a...
A view of selected Roadmaps defined for the Architecture.
A "hat" that a particular person wears at a point in time.
A responsibility taken on by a particular person to do a particular activity or set of activites at a particular point in time.
One person...
Roles up for discussion generally and specifically:
Enterprise Architect
Solution Architect
Specialised types of Enterprise Architect are:
Business Architect
Information Systems Architect
Data...
RSS feeds are available on every discussion page of this site! Including the Forum! (each page of this site has a discuss option below)
Feeds (really simple syndication-RSS in this case) are...
A composite list and or models of sub-views from items such as Principles, Business Policy, Business Rules, Directive, Standards, etc. which work in tandem with the motivation view to contrain and...
Made up of:
Application Services
Information Services
Interaction Services
Partner Services
Information Services
Access Services
Utility Services
Use this to search the wiki site.
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A view of all Security Risks across the Enterprise. (more specifically in this context the Enterprise Architecture Security Risks)
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A view of all Security within the enterprise, conceptual, logical and physical, people and technology (software, hardware and communications.)
This could happen at all levels of...
The FEA definition is:
"segment architecture is the IT architecture for an individual line of business (LoB) or common technology service and has more detail than the overall EA. A segment...
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A Service matches a Capability with a need of one or many Consumers. It typically has one or many Providers.
It would generally have Service Level Agreement to which it have to comply.
It...
This is a class diagram that was put together to describe a Service:
Related: Services-context
Related: Service Lifecycle
Related: Service
Related: Software as a Service (SaaS)
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The lifecycle management of a service instance is important in controlling the active Services and understanding what is available for re-use, etc.
Related: Service View
Related: Service definition
Or (SOA)
See Wikipedia Definition of Service_Oriented_Architecture (SOA)
Microsoft recently published a paper called SOA in the real World
This file is attached locally on the wiki, just click on...