Index

PF2

Head

Introduction

Introduction

Companies

Overview
Pragmatic EC
Licensing

Training

Certification Courses
Focused Workshops
Options

Pragmatic Publishing Platform

Overview
Design

PEFF

Language

Language

Basics

I Didnt Mean What You Heard
What is a System
What is an Enterprise
What is Transformation
What is a Framework
Theory or Practice
Colours
What is Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture

POET

Methods

Methods

Disciplines

Overview
Capability Model
Artefacts
Modelling
Decision Making

Artefacts

Artefacts

Ontology

Basics
Mapping to Phases
Volume Volatility and Focus
Impact and Costs
Population
Transitions

Detail

Structural and Transformational Zachman
Models

Meta models

Hybrid

Items

Items

The Architecture Paradigm

Abstraction and Elaboration
Relationships
The Value is in the Lines not the Boxes
Patterns
Models Meta Models and Semantics

Tools

Number and Growth
How POET Helps
Coverage
Integration

PEAF

Adoption

Adoption

Step 5

Actions

Select an EA Modelling Tool

Step 6

Actions

Rollout EA Modelling Tool
Guidance

Tools

Types

Issues

Ability to Use Information
Effort to Maintain Information
Fundamentals
Can I use my CMDB
Content
Entities
Attributes

Methods

Disciplines

Modelling
Populate The Model

Artefacts

Ontology

Structural and Transformational
Models
Meta models

Models

Relationships

Meta models

Overview
Transformational
Principles
Debt Agreement
Structural

Items

Tools

Coverage
Vendors

Evaluation

Requirements
Process
Raw Scores
Weighted Scores
X Requirements

PF2

Appendix

Appendix
Background
The Author
Keypoints
Sources and Resources
Tail
       
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The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks are written in English and you would therefore expect to be able to understand every word.

However, although most of us speak English fluently, the same cannot be said about the language we use to talk, about things in relation to Enterprises.

Different people use different words to mean different things at different times. This is a massive problem, which makes understanding anything anyone says, at best impossible, and at worst, apparently possible. (It’s worse when apparently possible, because that’s when people think they understand each other, but don’t)

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Be ever vigilant of the hidden confusion that language can create.

EA Project Team: Create a data dictionary for all the terms used in the Enterprise's Transformation Capability.

Questions to ponder...

Do people in your enterprise speak the same language?

Are you prepared to map the content of The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks to your own internal naming conventions?

If not what changes would you make to The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks?











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