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Tools and toolsets for enterprise architecture

Support for design, discipline and decision-making

Tom Graves

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores a range of topics about the kind of toolsets that we need to support the work in enterprise-architectures and the like.

It includes around 50 posts and 90 images, and is split into five sections:

  • Toolsets: Integration - a set of overviews that bring it all together
  • Toolsets: Why - a decade’s-worth of explorations in the ‘Why‘ behind the need
  • Toolsets: How - about how this blending of toolset and platform would be used in real-world practice
  • Toolsets: What - some examples of the ‘What‘ that we’d need to cover across the whole-enterprise space, in terms of notations and the like
  • Toolsets: Implementation - some practical notes towards implementation, getting beyond conjecture and towards making it real

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Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

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Table of Contents

TOOLSETS: INTRODUCTION

TOOLSETS: INTEGRATION

Toolsets for enterprise-architecture - another try

From tools to toolset

Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard - 5: Practices and toolsets

  1. Rationale
  2. Application

TOOLSETS: WHY

On EA tools and paper trials

Meanderings on metamodels

‘Bindedness’ in metamodels

Executable enterprise architecture

Enabling enterprise-architecture conversations

  1. One tool to rule them all?
  2. Enabling interactive conversations on architectures
  3. Beyond the whiteboard

Next-generation toolsets for enterprise-architecture?

Models as decision-records (Enterprise Canvas)

What’s the point of this ‘EA metamodel’?

Which EA tools? – and why?

Dotting the joins (the JEA version)

  1. Dotting the joins: the adverse effects of specialization
  2. Joining the dots

EA toolsets - time to get on the cluetrain?

How do you think?

Enterprise-architecture as hologram

Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting the joins

Platform, toolset and tool

More on the ‘Why’ for new toolsets

TOOLSETS: HOW

Big EA, Little EA and Personal EA

LEGO as an enterprise-architecture modelling tool?

The toolset-ecosystem

Dependency and resilience in enterprise-architecture models

This: an exploratory game for service-oriented EA

The ‘This’ game and EA toolsets

What do we need from our EA tools?

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Jobs-to-be-done
  3. Implications for implementation

Tools and metatools

Toolsets for associative modelling

A tale of three toolsets

  1. Archi
  2. Enterprise Evolver
  3. Ardoq
  4. Analog Memory Desk
  5. What can we learn from this?

The game of enterprise-architecture

TOOLSETS: WHAT

Simplifying the Enterprise Canvas

  1. Some comments on modelling

More on simplified Enterprise Canvas

Five EA app ideas – anyone interested?

  1. App idea 1: SCAN sensemaking framework
  2. App idea 2: Context-space mapping sensemaking-method
  3. App idea 3: ‘This’-game for context-exploration
  4. App idea 4: Enterprise Canvas architecture-modelling
  5. App idea 5: SEMPER diagnostic
  6. Bonus rather-more-than-an-app idea: full EA toolset

An inventory of sorts

Making a knowledge-base for whole-enterprise EA more accessible

TOOLSETS: IMPLEMENTATION

Unravelling the anatomy of Archimate

  1. The anatomy of Archimate
  2. Rethinking the anatomy of Archimate

Back to the roots for EA toolset metamodels

More detail on EA metamodel

EA metamodel and method

EA metamodel – a possible structure

EA metamodel – the big picture (and the small picture too)

EA metamodel: two questions

  1. A database-structure for motes
  2. “Tell me about yourself”
  3. “Tell me what you’re associated with”
  4. A note on access-control

More metamodel stuff

New toolsets for enterprise-architecture

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Data-structures
  3. Data-exchange
  4. Access-control and linking
  5. Devices and interface-metaphors
  6. Editors
  7. Query, search and navigation
  8. Change-history

More notes on toolsets for EA

  1. Semantics of connections
  2. Model-types and object-ownership
  3. Support for story

And more on toolsets for EA

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