The ArchiMate Series

IT architects come in many different flavors; application, business, data, enterprise, integration, infrastructure, security & solution architecture. While ArchiMate is defined as a modelling language for enterprise architecture it is certainly relevant to all other types when used at the correct level of abstraction.

Articles

This series of short articles brings together some practical learnings from using ArchiMate over many years.

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Muted Colour Scheme
Application Component, Bending the Rules
Diagram Layout Techniques
Archi Tips and Tricks
Wish List
Learning ArchiMate

Downloads

The model and colour scheme files that are used throughout this series are available to download from here:

archimate-series.archimate - Archi File Format
archimate-series-aef.xml - ArchiMate Exchange Format
ArchiColours-v1.2.prefs - Archi Colour Scheme