Index

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Head

Introduction

Introduction

Companies

Overview
Pragmatic EC
Licensing

Training

Certification Courses
Focused Workshops
Options

Pragmatic Publishing Platform

Overview
Design

PEFF

Language

Language

Basics

I Didnt Mean What You Heard
What is a System
What is an Enterprise
What is Transformation
What is a Framework
Theory or Practice
Colours
What is Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture

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Methods

Methods

Disciplines

Overview
Capability Model
Artefacts
Modelling
Decision Making

Artefacts

Artefacts

Ontology

Basics
Mapping to Phases
Volume Volatility and Focus
Impact and Costs
Population
Transitions

Detail

Structural and Transformational Zachman
Models

Meta models

Hybrid

Items

Items

The Architecture Paradigm

Abstraction and Elaboration
Relationships
The Value is in the Lines not the Boxes
Patterns
Models Meta Models and Semantics

Tools

Number and Growth
How POET Helps
Coverage
Integration

PEAF

Adoption

Adoption

Step 5

Actions

Select an EA Modelling Tool

Step 6

Actions

Rollout EA Modelling Tool
Guidance

Tools

Types

Issues

Ability to Use Information
Effort to Maintain Information
Fundamentals
Can I use my CMDB
Content
Entities
Attributes

Methods

Disciplines

Modelling
Populate The Model

Artefacts

Ontology

Structural and Transformational
Models
Meta models

Models

Relationships

Meta models

Overview
Transformational
Principles
Debt Agreement
Structural

Items

Tools

Coverage
Vendors

Evaluation

Requirements
Process
Raw Scores
Weighted Scores
X Requirements

PF2

Appendix

Appendix
Background
The Author
Keypoints
Sources and Resources
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What are these boxes telling you?

The Value is in the Lines not the Boxes™. This phrase expresses one of the key aspects of The Architecture Paradigm™. In fact, it could be said that Architecture IS the relationships - the lines and not the boxes, the space between the boxes, the relationship of the lines to the spaces.

Another way to think of it is how the brain thinks (no pun intended). The brain is composed of “things” - neurons, and “relationships” - synapses. At birth your brain has about 86 billion neurons. It has been estimated that the brain of a three year old child as about thousand, thousand billion (1 quadrillion or 1015 ) synapses. By adulthood, although the brain increases in size by about five times, the number of neurons do not increase. Most of the growth is done by the growth of the synaptic connections - learning. Interestingly, in adulthood the number of synaptic connections falls through the process of Synaptic Pruning, stabilizing by adulthood from 1,000 thousand billion to around 100 to 500 thousand billion (trillion 1012) If anyone ever told you that Architecture was not brain surgery, maybe they should think again! So while the neurons (boxes) are important, it is the synapses (lines) that are much more important.

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Lines (relationships) are an order of magnitude more important than the boxes.

C-Suite: Understand and utilise the power of relationships.

Questions to ponder...

Do you agree that there is massive value in “the lines” vs “the boxes”?

What “lines” will you draw to allow you to see the value?





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