Building Model-based Enterprise Architecture

Building trust with your business stakeholders starts with providing them with accurate, up-to-date information. This book shows you how to create a unified enterprise architecture repository, a central database for all your diagrams, catalogs, and other artifacts. Information supporting stakeholders' decisions may be delivered through a single artifact or a combination of multiple artifacts.

This book systematically covers the entire process, starting with a crash course in Sparx EA and mastering the principles of Model Driven Generation (MDG) to build a custom metamodel. You will then learn how to structure your repository and model key architectural artifacts, including business capabilities, projects, applications, data integrations, and technology environments like the cloud. The book also provides detailed guidance on modeling business services, organizational structures, and strategies. Finally, you will discover crucial repository management processes and learn to publish your artifacts as professional documents or web content for wider consumption.

By the end of this book, you will be fully competent in using Sparx EA to build, manage, and publish a professional-grade EA repository. This expertise will enable you to effectively analyze, communicate, and drive strategic change within your organization, making you a vital asset in any enterprise architecture team.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Developing a custom metamodel using MDG.
● Maintaining EA artifacts and diagrams.
● Distinguishing between physical, logical, and conceptual models.
● Produce artifacts based on reference architectures.
● Learn the TOGAF 10 content metamodel through practical EA workspace examples.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for practical and model-driving architects, including business, application, data, and technology architects, as well as project managers, solution, integration, and cloud architects. This book is also beneficial for Sparx EA users who are looking to advance their skills and master MDG.

1. Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Repositories
2. Sparx EA Crash Course
3. Introducing Model Driven Generation
4. Advanced Model Driven Generation
5. Structuring the Repository
6. Modeling Business Capabilities
7. Modeling Projects
8. Modeling Applications
9. Modeling Application Integrations
10. Modeling Cloud Environments
11. Modeling Business Services
12. Modeling Organizations and Strategies
13. Repository Management Processes
14. Publishing EA Artifacts

Mudar Bahri is an independent mentor and consultant specializing in enterprise architecture. He assists architects in establishing, acquiring, and refining practical EA skills to provide decision- makers with valuable artifacts that support their decisions regarding changes to the enterprise. He advocates for enterprise architecture as a tool to bridge gaps rather than creating ones; thus, it must be straightforward, practical, and accessible to all stakeholders.

As a certified TOGAF Enterprise Architect and an expert user of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, he created comprehensive repositories to assist businesses in documenting their enterprise contents using interconnected artifacts, each showing a different perspective and addressing various stakeholders’ needs. This includes end-to-end solution architectures, strategy maps, digital transformation strategies, cloud migration plans, application and integration architectures, Business Capability models, and business process models.