Enterprise Architecture Methods and Frameworks

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Enterprise Architecture Methods and Frameworks
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Bernard Szlachta (bs@NobleProg.co.uk)

Framework and Methodologies ⌘

  • Architecture Frameworks structure architecture description
  • It can prescribe views and viewpoints
  • Can suggest or enforce specific language
  • Architecture Methodology is a structure collection of techniques and processes
  • Methodologies usually are more restrictive than frameworks
  • They specify processes for creating and maintaining an EA

RUP ⌘

  • IBM RUP although heavy, is considered iterative and Agile (as oppose to waterfall)
  • Enterprise Unified Process extends RUP in the area of system support and system retirement
  • It is still mostly focus on Software Development, Rational Software Architect supports EA modelling extensions

UN/CEFACT ⌘

  • UN/CEFACT's Modeling Methodology (aka UMM)
  • Developed by UN/CEFACT - United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business
  • Capture business requirements of inter-organizational business processes
  • The UMM model can then be used to derive deployment artifacts for the IT systems of the participating business partners
  • Restricted to business operations (technology independent)

ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 ⌘

  • "ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 addresses the creation, analysis and sustainment of architectures of systems through the use of architecture descriptions"
  • "A conceptual model of architecture description is established."
  • "The required contents of an architecture description are specified."
  • "Architecture viewpoints, architecture frameworks and architecture description languages are introduced for codifying conventions and common practices of architecture description."
  • "The required content of architecture viewpoints, architecture frameworks and architecture description languages is specified."
  • http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/42010-2011.html
  • Supersedes IEEE 1471
  • Clearly separates Architectures and Architecture Descriptions

Definitions ⌘

  • Architecting: process of conceiving, defining, expressing, documenting, communicating, certifying proper implementation of, maintaining and improving an architecture throughout a system’s life cycle
  • Architecture: fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution
  • Architecture description (abbreviation 'AD'): work product used to express an architecture
  • Architecture description language (abbreviation 'ADL'): any form of expression for use in architecture descriptions
  • Architecture framework: conventions, principles and practices for the description of architectures established within a specific domain of application and/or community of stakeholders
  • Architecture viewpoint: work product establishing the conventions for the construction, interpretation and use of architecture views to frame specific system concerns
  • Architecture view: work product expressing the architecture of a system from the perspective of specific system concerns
  • Concern: interest in a system relevant to one or more of its stakeholders
  • Stakeholder: individual, team, organization, or classes thereof, having an interest in a system

Zachman Framework ⌘

  • Created by John zachman in 1987
  • First comprehensive EA framework
  • Limited practical applicability
  • Enterprise Architecture framework for enterprise
  • Provides a formal and structured way of viewing and defining an enterprise
  • It consists of a two dimensional classification matrix based on the intersection of six communication questions (What, Where, When, Why, Who and How) with six rows according to reification transformations
  • It does not imply any specific method or process (pure framework)


Zachman Framework Model.svg.png

UAF

  • OMG standard
  • derived from UPDM

TOGAF® ⌘

  • Developed by The Open Group
  • EA Framework + Methodology: Architecture Development Method (ADM)
  • Provides a comprehensive approach for designing, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture
  • Typically modelled at four levels:
    • Business, Application,
    • Data,
    • Technology
  • Latest Enterprise Edition release 9.1 (2011)
  • TOGAF taxonomy of views is compliant with the IEEE standard

OMG MDA⌘

  • Model-Driven Architecture
  • Released by OMG in 2001
  • Latest version released in 2003 (some frameworks where still developed as to the 2008 http://www.andromda.org)
  • Idea is that the model stays the same, and the software is generated from the model using the newest technologies available
  • This allows for seamless migration from a technology to new technology
  • Though the standard itself is not actively developed, the idea of Model-Driven Architecture is still developing for example in case of BPMN and BPMNS (jBPM, Intalio, etc...)

SOA ⌘

see SOA materials

Category:SOA

Military Related Frameworks ⌘

  • Nato Architecture Framework
  • MoDAF
  • DoDAF
  • UPDM

US Government Frameworks ⌘

  • FEAF
  • FEA
  • FEAPMO
  • Treasury Architecture Development Process


Other Frameworks ⌘

  • RM-0ODP
  • GERAM
  • Nolan Norton Framework