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Is this Architecture? Where is the sentence?
by Nic Plum on Sunday 07 February, 2010 - 15:42 GMT in Architecture Modelling and tagged with meaning • natural language • noun • ontology • relationship • sentence • system authority • tuple • usability • verb
What is architecture when we are modelling? We might have architecture elements but is this enough? Consider the following thought experiment. On the first line we have 2 things. We don’t know what type they are. We can’t say anything about them and therefore this cannot be architecture. On the ... [Read full article]
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How to Administer an Enterprise Architecture Standard - One Possible Solution
by Nic Plum on Thursday 04 February, 2010 - 19:02 GMT in Architecture Framework • TRAK • Standards and tagged with admin • enterprise • ietf • organisation • rfc4677 • role • standard • steering group • trak • working group
Having presented a short potted overview of some of the logical side of TRAK as an Enterprise, how might TRAK as a standard be administered? It is clearly a balancing trick. On the one side with London Underground having agreed to release the architecture framework as open source it seems sensible ... [Read full article]
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How ISO/IEC 42010 Controls Architectural Description
by Maestoso on Sunday 31 January, 2010 - 10:56 GMT in Architecture Framework • Standards and tagged with architecture description • concept • consistency • exchange • ieee1471 • iso • iso42010 • model • rule • standard
ISO/IEC42010:2007 states that ‘most architects must work within an architecture framework’ where this is defined as a predefined set of concerns, stakeholders, viewpoints and viewpoint correspondence rules; established to capture common practice for architecture descriptions within specific ... [Read full article]
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The Architect’s Playlist
by Nic Plum on Friday 15 January, 2010 - 21:59 GMT in Fun and tagged with fun • humour • playlist
Life isn’t all stereotypes and shape-shovelling. Oh no! We all need some light relief from time to time. For no good reason I can think of apart from devilment I thought it would be a break to think about a playlist that would be suitable for those engaged in the art and craft of architectural ... [Read full article]
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OMG - Multiple tool vendors demonstrate exchange of UML models using XMI
by Nic Plum on Wednesday 13 January, 2010 - 21:43 GMT in Architecture Framework • DODAF • MODAF • News • Standards • Tools and tagged with artisan studio • demonstration • ibm rhapsody • interoperability • lockheed martin • news • no magic magicdraw • omg • softeam modelio • sparx systems enterprise architect • sysml • tool • updm • xmi
From the Object Management Group (OMG) website: OMG’s Model Interoperability Demonstration a Success Multiple tool vendors demonstrate exchange of UML models using XMI Needham, MA, USA - January 4, 2010 - Members of OMG’s™ Model Interchange Working Group (MIWG) held an Interoperability ... [Read full article]
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Putting the Architectural Modelling Community First - What You Can Expect to See
by Nic Plum on Saturday 02 January, 2010 - 14:03 GMT in Site and tagged with blog • forum • fun • plan • site • structure • wiki
This current site is really only a interim site. What is intended is a site that properly supports the folks using TRAK or other MDAF-based architecture frameworks and one which represents the ethos behind it:- pragmatic - led by need and application - the human interface to the framework ... [Read full article]
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Building Knowledge of the World, in Small Steps - “Wikitecture”
by Nic Plum on Saturday 02 January, 2010 - 13:45 GMT in Architecture Framework • TRAK • Architecture Modelling and tagged with evolve • knowledge • trak • wiki
One of the purpose in standardising architecture models is making it easier to share. This isn’t the whole story, however, if all we end up doing is starting afresh or recreating models. The point of re-use isn’t just financial (although it saves money) - it’s that it allows us to add to what has ... [Read full article]
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Thoughts - “The TRAK Enterprise”
by Nic Plum on Saturday 02 January, 2010 - 12:11 GMT in Architecture Framework • TRAK and tagged with boundary • concept • cv01 • enterprise • perspective • trak
This article presents some musings on how TRAK as an enterprise might be represented and how it might work. Needless to say there is an architecture description underpinning this!Capability Perspective - what are the likely goals? Concept Perspective - logical needs, connectivity & exchanges ... [Read full article]
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Demonstration Repository - TRAK - UK Rail Research, Strategy & Regulation, et al
by Nic Plum on Sunday 06 December, 2009 - 15:13 GMT in Architecture Framework • TRAK • Architecture Modelling and tagged with architecture description • demonstration • model • rail • research • sparx systems enterprise architect • strategy • trak
A demonstration or sample repository has been created (and is ongoing) with the following aims:- testing the framework out - is it capable of representing the types of thing and relationships/dependencies in the rail and other industries (TRAK is a generic framework)? testing the plugin for Sparx ... [Read full article]
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Perspectives - Structure / Grouping of TRAK Viewpoints
by Nic Plum on Sunday 06 December, 2009 - 09:52 GMT in Architecture Framework • TRAK • Standards and tagged with capability • concept • ieee1471 • iso42010 • management • operational • perspective • procurement • solution • trak
Architectural frameworks normally provide ways of grouping views that have a common aspect and these collections are known as perspectives. TRAK provides the following perspectives:- Enterprise (was ‘Capability’) concerned with the overall enterprise and capabilities needed. Concept (was ... [Read full article]
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