News
27 of April of 2018
Final grades
The final grades of the EAR course are published in this link. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have further comments or questions.
23 of April of 2018
Workshop assignments and exam grades
In this link you can find the grades for the workshop assignments and exams. We expect to publish the grades for the organisational project before the end of this week.
13 of April of 2018
Submission of final report
Today is the deadline to submit your final report of EAR. For the submission, please submit your report to your Google Drive folder.
2nd of April of 2018
Cheat sheet for the exam
This week we will have the exam of the course. For preparation, you can train yourself with exercises and the resources we shared during the lectures and workshops. For the course we have a closed book exam, but you will be provided with a cheat sheet including the formulas for the quantitative architecture and the Achimate notation. Please bring your own calculator! And do not hesitate to contact us for questions, good luck!
2nd of April of 2018
Assignments
In this link you can find the grades of the workshop assignments. We expect to give you feedback about the assignment 4 this week.
29th of March of 2018
Exercises
As required by some students, we have prepared a PDF with some exercises that can be of good practice for the final exam. Good luck with your exam preparation!
22nd of March of 2018
World Café
Next week we will have the poster sessions. To promote a nice sharing environment, the group will be divided into two clusters based on the topics of the organisation assignments.
You are kindly reminded that the poster session is a mandatory activity. You are expected to bring the poster and present it. If you have important reasons to suggest a change for your session, please let me know before Sunday March 25.
To prepare your poster, remember the tips we discussed during the lectures. In this website you can find more details about it.
22nd of March of 2018
Performance metrics
For the assignment 4, please make use of the performance metrics presented in the Lankhorst book on page 228. For the students with the 3rd edition of the book, the metrics are presented on page 203.
12th of March of 2018
Coaching session
On March 13 we will host a coaching session to explore the current drafts for the organisation assignment. Feel free to bring your questions or comments to the lecture room. Please think about your questions and include them in the following discussion document (also available in the resources page).
12th of February of 2018
Slack
To have a common space to share and post questions, comments, and ideas related to Enterprise Architecture, you have received via email an invitation to be part of the EAR2018 Slack group.
You are welcome to join!
The Slack group is not going to be used to shared official announcements. The important communications will be published via email and the Announcements page.
12th of February of 2018
Signavio workspace
As it was mentioned during the first lecture, we are going to use Signavio for most of the modelling activities, workshops, and organisation assignment. For this, each student received via email an invitation to the EAR2018 Signavio Workspace.
As soon as you get registered, you will be able to find the following folders in your workspace:
- A main folder named “EAR2018”
- A subfolder of EAR2018 named “TeamX”, where “X” is the number of your team. This is the folder that you are going to use for the workshops and organisation assignment (you will be able to see this folder tomorrow during the lecture when each team gets a folder).
If you have created your models for the GeneriCo assignment in other folder, please move the models to your “TeamX” folder.
8th of February of 2018
Interview with the organisation
To process your interviews use the interview template, besides your own interview protocol.
Tips
Start with general information about the company: what kind of company is it, how big are they, where are they based, what are their products and services, and what is their mission and vision? Also ask for an organogram if available, this will help you build the organization structure view.
Try to quickly focus on the architecture, that is, the main business functions & processes, applications and their interactions. Depending on the company, this can take quite a while and need some explaining on your part, or the company may have full architectural documentation available you can use. The easiest is to go through all the views you need for your report together with the interviewee.
For the motivation analysis you have to ask critical questions about, for example, what the company's drivers and goals are, what the reasons are for the current solutions and why this solution was preferred over others. Use the list of critical questions in the argument lecture to guide the discussion. Try to ask these questions at the relevant step of the interview. So, for example, when discussing how the applications support the business processes or the services to the customer, ask whether they have considered other architectural possibilities (why? why not?). You can also ask the interviewee to come up with a recent change in architecture, and try to find the motivations behind the change.
8th of February of 2018
The website for the course Enterprise Architecture is officially launched the 14th of February of 2017