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…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. With iteraplan release 3.1 (launched in July 2013) the portfolio diagram’s layout was improved: An overlapping of elements with discrete property values is avoided now. With iteraplan’s portfolio diagram you can lay out elements in two dimensions. To place an element…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. iteraplan release 3.1 with the newly introduced date intervals offers improved options for planning and coordination. The date intervals are configurable and available for all types of building blocks. How does this work? First you need two date attributes which define…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Another new feature in iteraplan 3.1 (released in July 2013) affects the Excel-Import & Export which is included in the iteraplan Enterprise-Edition. Now iteraplan also supports XSLX as import and export format: The latest Excel-Version 2013 uses – like the preceding versions…
This is a guest blog from Fabian Kainzinger (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Over the next few days, we’ll be blogging about new features of the new iteraplan 3.1 from July 2013. We start by introducing a small, but helpful enhancement, which a lot of our users have been asking for. From now on,…
This is a guest blog from Karsten Voges – for more see his personal blog. Why are clusters, graphs and other relations so popular in EA? Very common in Enterprise Architecture are relationship based visualizations. This is in contrast to many other management disciplines. Most other management visualizations often come down to some sort of…
This is a guest blog from Karsten Voges – for more see his personal blog. A popular visualization within Enterprise Architecture is the Roadmap, Life-Cycle or Gantt Chart. Sometimes also called a Masterplan or Timeline. The roadmap diagram presents a timeline showing periods and status information of e.g. applications, projects, servers or business units. Sometimes…
This is a guest blog from Karsten Voges – for more see his personal blog. The central drivers for Enterprise Architecture Management are the goals and concern of your stakeholders. Valuable tools for answering stakeholder questions are visualizations and reports. A picture is truly worth 1000 words. Visualizations allow you to see different information combined in…