Monthly Archives: August 2003

Modelling Change in Enterprise IT

One of the big problems in a strategic or “enterprise architecture” view of IT is how to model the change in an enterprise’s IT portfolio over time. Most established modeling techniques deal with an essentially static view of the system landscape, supplemented by some modelling of the dynamics within systems. These are very poor tools if you are trying to understand how the complete set of systems, technologies and capabilities change over time. This item discusses two simple techniques which address this problem.

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Review: Business Modelling with UML

Business Patterns at Work, By Hans-Erik Eriksson and Magnus Penker

A very good guide to business-level modelling with UML

One of the weaknesses of the Unified Modelling Language is its relatively limited support for modelling at the Enterprise level, especially to accurately model business processes. The UML purists believe that everything should be reduced to Use Cases, while these authors recognise that much more is necessary.

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