How to designing and architecture EA products

Enterprise Architects start with an Enterprise Architecture Framework

Enterprise Architecture is a complete science and profession. Still, the Architecture Design field is young, so for most of us, it is all new. Beneath, you will find a list of 'How To' step-by-step tutorials on designing effective visual and interactive products.

Designing and Architecture starts with an Enterprise Architecture Framework on Dragon1.

When you are busy designing in architecture software and are curious about how to create certain architecture products or how to execute certain architecture processes?

Your Step by Step Tutorials

On every tutorial here, you will find a series of steps for designing and architecture products. The order of these enterprise architecture products is the ideal/normal order of products to create compliant with the Dragon1 EA Method.

We provide you with the following step-by-step tutorials:

A) Conceptual Architecture Design

The following products are all part of designing and architecture, Phase 1:

1. How to draw a Stakeholder Needs & Requirements Analysis Diagram (Stakeholders' Enterprise Vision)
2. How to draw an Enterprise Structure Elements & Functions Diagram (Enterprise Structure Vision)
3. How to draw an Enterprise Architecture Functions, Concepts & Principles Diagram (Enterprise Architecture Vision)
4. How to create an ArchiMate Business Functions Diagram?
5. How to create a Design Sketch of an Enterprise Total Concept?

B) Preliminary Architecture Design

The following products are all part of designing and architecture, Phase 2:

1. How to make a Principles Detail drawing of a concept?
2. How to make a meta-model, user model, and an instance model?
3. How to create a Process Landscape diagram (with business functions)?
4. How to create an Application Architecture Landscape diagram (static and dynamic)?
   Including domains, information systems, suites, modules, components, objects, interfaces, connections, software, and services.
5. How to make a technology (services) roadmap
6. How to make a current state architecture blueprint
7. How to set up a current state architecture principles document/database

C) EA Dossiers

These products are all part of the Enterprise Architecture Dossier:

1. How to set up an EA Baseline
2. How to create a current state Enterprise Architecture Framework diagram?
3. How to set up a glossary of terms document/database
4. How to Design an Enterprise Architecture (Document)
5. How to Design a Governance Architecture (Document)
6. How to Design a Business Architecture (Document)
7. How to Design an Information Architecture (Document)
8. How to Design a Technical Architecture (Document)
9. How to Design a Security Architecture (Document)

By studying these tutorials, you will cover architectural processes, products, checklists, document templates, and other practical things from the Dragon1 open EA Method.

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