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Our proven six-step process accelerates the build, setup, migration, and training procedures for organizations that prioritize efficiency over experimentation.
Our proven six-step process accelerates the build, setup, migration, and training procedures for organizations that prioritize efficiency over experimentation.
- Easy to standardize and scale up
- Reduce setup time to weeks, not months
- Start with a simpler, focused user interface
- Significantly reduce the learning curve
- Easily on-board wider team
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Understanding Usecases
It is important to focus on identifying and committing key stakeholders for workshops, reviews, and approvals to address the key usecases and business needs or achieve certain goals and architectural requirements to implement the EA practice.
The success of any EA practice is based on understanding, configuring, and focusing the EA tool to support the identified use cases while eliminating unnecessary complexities.
Defining Metamodel based on Usecases
A key step in the build and configuration of Sparx Architecture Platform deployment is understanding the key usecases the architecture tool intends to deliver and designing a Metamodel that meets this requirement.
Our team will understand the architectural requirements and arrive at an organization-specific Metamodel. This will enable a highly focused modeling environment that includes implicit model validation and governance to ensure that a consistent and standard central repository of architecture is created.
Key features of the solution are
| FEATURE | REQUIREMENT |
|---|---|
| Standardized Way of Working | A standardized Sparx EA practice makes it much easier to scale up and get business buy-in. Adoption is critical to the successful implementation of a Model-Based Design solution. |
| Business Driven | The usecases we deploy will align with the pain points and key business problems identified by the team. |
| Focused Use Cases | A model-based design approach will deploy a selection of use cases for solution architecture and design and enterprise architecture, with the ability to scale up as the teams mature. |
Configuration based on Metamodel
Once a metamodel is defined, Sparx EA can be configured to focus on the metamodel implementation specifically. This includes:
- Toolbox definitions
- Quick linker definitions (connectors)
- Model Validation rules
- Adding Model governance
- Prolaborate Dashboards to drive insights and business decisions
- Documentation templates
- Toolbox definitions
- Quick linker definitions (connectors)
- Model Validation rules
- Adding Model governance
- Prolaborate Dashboards to drive insights and business decisions
- Documentation templates
These configurations will eliminate all the unused parts of Sparx EA and make it easy to learn and adopt.
- Simpler, Focused User interface
- Simplify Learning Curve
- Easily on-board wider team
- Easy to scale up and standardize
- Simpler, Focused User interface
- Simplify Learning Curve
- Easily on-board wider team
- Easy to scale up and standardize
Model Harvesting to create a Baseline
Once the configuration is defined, build a baseline architecture model to kick-start the Organization’s specific architecture which aligns with the EA configuration based on the agreed metamodel. Harvest data from Excel, Word, Visio, and various other sources to build a fully inter-connected data Repository.
The deliverables of this phase includes
- A Baseline Architecture Model is built based on the Architect’s agreed blueprint.
- A Baseline Architecture Model is built based on the Architect’s agreed blueprint.
Establish Governance and Workflow
The Build and Setup phase also includes the following configurations to enable model governance and management.
- Defining Roles, User Groups, and Role-based access control.
- Defining Change Management and versions (baselines) to enable the current and future state modeling.
- Define Model Management gates and activities to maintain models with regular cleanups and model integrity.
- Defining Roles, User Groups, and Role-based access control.
- Defining Change Management and versions (baselines) to enable the current and future state modeling.
- Define Model Management gates and activities to maintain models with regular cleanups and model integrity.
The deliverables of this phase includes
- Ownership - The solution will include an ownership model for maintaining the Architecture Toolset content and agree on the ownership with the proposed owners and the Architecture’s lead.
- The project will include the handover of responsibility for maintaining the Architecture Toolset upon completion of the deployment.
- Documentation - The solution will include Guidelines and Templates that support the user in understanding and applying the in-scope use cases.
- Ownership - The solution will include an ownership model for maintaining the Architecture Toolset content and agree on the ownership with the proposed owners and the Architecture’s lead.
- The project will include the handover of responsibility for maintaining the Architecture Toolset upon completion of the deployment.
- Documentation - The solution will include Guidelines and Templates that support the user in understanding and applying the in-scope use cases.
Define publishing options
Following the completion of the baseline architecture model, our team will work with the stakeholders to understand the required documentation (deliverables) and dashboards (for reviewers and collaboration).
The expected documentation can be automated using Enterprise Architect’s ‘Documentation Templates.’’ Our team will set up and develop the full list of templates, and all required fragments to ensure the tool automates the required documentation.
The deliverables of this phase include
- Sparx EA Documentation templates are for all model-based documentation expected by the Architect/Stakeholders.
- Prolaborate dashboards and reports based on the reviewer's and collaboration viewpoints.
- Sparx EA Documentation templates are for all model-based documentation expected by the Architect/Stakeholders.
- Prolaborate dashboards and reports based on the reviewer's and collaboration viewpoints.
Train the Teams
The Build and Setup phase will be followed by hands-on training for the team, ensuring smooth process continuity.
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