Bracken Project Enterprise Architecture Workshop 2

Sam RowleyLearning Development Manager

Staffordshire Universityc.s.rowley@staffs.ac.uk

Agenda

• Enterprise Architecture context• Archimate modelling language• Archi modelling tool• Hands-on modelling

Enterprise Architecture as Process

Baseline Target

GapDelivery

EA as City Planning

EA Modelling

• Capture stakeholder concerns• Address concerns by identifying and refining

requirements• Create EA models• Create views of the model for stakeholders– show how concerns and requirements will be

addressed– show trade-offs arising from conflicting concerns

‘Diagrams’ are part of modellingModel views

Archimate: big picture not details

Archimate layers

Archimate layers

• Higher layers use services provided by lower layers• Business layer

– offers products and services to external customers which are realised by business processes performed by business actors

• Application layer – supports the business layer with application services which

are realised by (software) applications• Technology layer

– offers infrastructural services (e.g., processing, storage and communication services) needed to run applications, realised by computer and communication hardware and system software

Archimate aspects

Archimate aspects

Business Layer

Business Layer

Application Layer

Technology Layer

Relations

Layered Model

Baseline Model - Processes

Actors and Roles

Representations

Business Objects

Other stakeholders

Other stakeholders

Other stakeholders

Other stakeholders

Baseline Model

Target Model

Gap Analysis Model

Archi Demo

Links to further resources• Enterprise Architecture

– JISC InfoNet Enterprise Architecture: http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/flexible-service-delivery/ea– Doing EA (JISC EA Pilot case studies):

www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/jisc_ea_pilot_study.pdf

• TOGAF– http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/– TOGAF 'book': http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf9-doc/arch/

• Archimate– http://www.opengroup.org/archimate– Specification: http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/– Introduction: https://doc.novay.nl/dsweb/Get/Document-43839/ArchiMate_Language_Primer.pdf– Web site: http://www.archimate.org/– Quick reference: https://doc.novay.nl/dsweb/Get/Document-52048/– Guides: https://doc.novay.nl/dsweb/View/Collection-4766

• Archi– http://archi.cetis.ac.uk

Credits

• Beijing City Planning Museum– http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanwalsh/

3946668436/– photo by Ivan Walsh– http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanwalsh/