Dragon1 Architecture Principles Textbook

This textbook offers architects around the globe a new and unique approach to formulate and visualize Architecture Principles much more effectively at a strategic level.

Target Audience

This textbook is beneficial for people who work in the field of Business Development, Information Management, System Development, and Information Technology.

What is the textbook about?

In the English language, something else is understood by the term 'principle', which means 'giving direction' than in the Dutch or Italian language, where it means 'mechanism of action'.

In recent decades, this has ensured that the international meaning of 'giving direction' has been learned, which unfortunately means with this interpretation of 'principle', that architectural principles lose a lot of power because they become optional in use, so in the current architectural field, a principle is seen as 'a guiding statement that rarely or never changes'.

For example: 'Data is always stored in the organization as a single item and only in the appropriate source database'.

More about Dragon1 EA Method

Dragon1 provides an Enterprise Architecture framework of guiding principles, a consistent glossary of defined architecture terms, reference models, an extensive library of symbols, and several defined professional products.

In Dragon1, principles are about the way things work; architectures are designed as total concepts, and architects are the creative designers of an integrated solution. With this approach, Dragon1 offers a full palette of practical aides, including checklists, templates, symbols, and design rules. Reference models in the Dragon1 EA Framework are available to quickly define one’s own Enterprise Architecture.