EA at ACME Inc. – Inconsistent reporting causes frustration

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…

iteraplan 3.1 feature: Usage-relation on Infrastructure Elements

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…

iteraplan 3.1 feature: Improved portfolio diagram layout

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…