With iteraplan 3.2 just out a few weeks this post recaps all the changes in iteraplan 3.1 and how to leverage them the best. Blogseries on new features iteraplan 3.1: The EA at ACME Inc and Reporting series highlighting the new dashboard templates (by Wolfgang Frech) Life-Cycle modeling with DateIntervals and the improved Masterplan Diagram…
Through many different consulting gigs and seeing different EA initiatives, these are my distilled EA Key Success Factors: Start with why Tell a story Know your stakeholders If in doubt, leave it out Use Visualizations WIIFT – What’s in it for them? Always think about the Benefits of your Stakeholders Business and your other stakeholders…
This is a list of things your EA Stakeholders do not care about. I always have to retell myself as well as tell clients: Business doesn’t care how clean your IT architecture is. Your stakeholders don’t care how long you spent on creating a report/diagram. Your stakeholders don’t care whose fault the problems are. Your…
Our application to Lean Startup Challenge got accepted! So the next six weeks will be super busy, but we are glad to test our vision of a SMART360°View of an enterprise. We believe that enterprise social graphs and enterprise architecture/portfolio tools are getting traction and we are looking forward to learn and test this the lean way and learn…
This is a guest blog from Wolfgang Frech (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Doris created the exact visualization the board needed with minimum effort. She is thrilled with the way the burden of reporting has eased. Charly is convinced too: the visualization looks just the way he designed it before. Charly immediately writes e-mails…
This is a guest blog from Wolfgang Frech (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. During his coffee break, Charly meets Metodi, who is responsible for the migration to iteraplan 3.1. Metodi has good news for Charly: from now on, iteraplan offers custom dashboards, and the migration is already completed. With Metodi’s support Charly prepares everything…
This is a guest blog from Wolfgang Frech (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Charly, Chief Enterprise Architect of ACME Inc., prepares the next major architecture board. His three colleagues, Doris, Dieter and Diane, all Deputy Enterprise Architects in the regional offices, are to report on their respective responsibility areas. Basically, Charly is interested in…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. The iteraplan release 3.1 (released in July 2013) features a revamped and extended master plan diagram. It is now available for all element types, can be configured to include related elements and for analyzing time spans. The master plan diagram depicts…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Data maintenance of all hierarchical building block types is highly simplified in iteraplan release 3.1 (out since last week): The tree view now offers a reorder-mode with which elements can be repositioned interactively by drag & drop. Most building block types…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Connections and dependencies of infrastructure elements are simply and effectively modelled using the extended iteraplan meta model: iteraplan 3.1 now supports the usage-relation for infrastructure elements. Relations between elements of the same building block type differ semantically. iteraplan supports the following…