please find the survey about our 13th EA cafe here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RQXJTY6

Take a minute or two to fill in this survey: it helps us to adapt our future events to your needs and wishes. Thanks.

Dear EA professional,

We would like to invite you for our next Architect Café on November 30th. The following topic is covered: Cloud Computing will change the way we work with Enterprise Architecture.

Cloud Computing is one of the IT trends that has a huge impact on the IT industry. In his lecture Martin van den Berg will discuss the impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise Architecture. He will answer the following questions:

• Is there more need for enterprise architecture if you would purchase services from the cloud?
• Will cloud computing lead to other kind of architectures?
• Will cloud computing lead to a different way we work with architecture?

Martin van den Berg is Architecture Service Line Manager at Sogeti Nederland B.V. and an expert in the area of Enterprise Architecture. He worked as lead architect in organizations like ABN AMRO, ING, Rabobank and Shell. Martin is one of the founders of DYA (Dynamic Architecture) and author of the books “Dynamic Enterprise Architecture, How to make it work”, “Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice”, “SOA for Profit” and “Seize the Cloud”.

Avertim will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the Avertim offices in Brussels. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.

We are looking forward to meeting you in November!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Proud sponsor of this event: Avertim

Update: the presentations can be found here:

Presentation Cloudsourcing with Architecture – Martin van den Berg

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A multidisciplinary approach to business architecture. How SD Worx succeeded in transforming a complicated and fragmented application landscape to a coherent and simplified architecture with tangible business benefits.

We will approach the transformation operation from three different perspectives:

• that of the business manager who is responsible for funding the program and for reaping the benefits
• that of the human interface designer who developed a suitable user interface architecture to support the business process
• that of the architect who modeled the AS IS architecture and envisioned the TO BE application landscape

Each role will be filled in with a speaker:

• Jan Boden is manager of the Central Services and Internal Processes department at SD Worx – KMO. He will speak about the business impact of the transformation operation: business drivers, the business process and the benefits.
• Johan van Maldeghem is human interface designer with experience in describing business processes and developing highly usable interfaces. He will talk about the initial development of the main business application based on a set of scenarios he derived from a set of interviews with real users.
• Peter Doomen is enterprise architect at SD Worx. His experience includes modeling complex landscapes and convincing management to take action. He will sketch the context of the transformation operation and talk about the main architecture principles that form the base of the TO BE application landscape.

Practical
The Architect Café will be held in the Namahn offices in Brussels. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 20h00 (with networking event after the presentations). To register, contact Inge.

Update: the presentations can be found here:

• Architecture with tangible business benefits
• baea_jvm_20110908 (GUI architecture)

Dear EA professional,Our next Architect Café on May 26^th will cover the following topic: An Agile Architecture with Domain Inheritance and Derivations.

No old wine in new bottles: an agile environment requires an agile architecture and the old concepts (like 3 tier, distributed objects and SOA) are not ready for it. The obvious architecture is a thorough integrated one without the architecture becoming a monolith.

This interesting topic is brought to you by Koen Van Exem, Managing Director at INXIN. He has more than 10 years experience with Agile and Lean Software Development. “Dimensional planning” is his contribution to the Agile & Lean range of ideas.

Koen is also Managing Director of Allors, an open source application (platform) that is most suited for Agile & Lean companies.

The presentation of Koen will be followed by a business case presented by Wald Westerlinck. At DSM he ran a program to change the DSM sourcing from local buying community to a global service buying center, from Business group towards Hub structure.

HP will be the host of this Architect Café.

The Architect Café will be held in the HP offices in Diegem. Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 19h30 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations. Should you have any suggestions, please let us know.
We are looking forward to meeting you in May!Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

Description

This book contains tips and tricks for getting the maximum out of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. From working with elements and connectors to making diagrams to more advanced functionalities like toolboxes, stereotypes and tagged values, the user is guided through the complex user interface of Enterprise Architect. A final chapter offers even more advanced features and some unexpected uses of Enterprise Architect.

ISBN: 9781616278991
NUR code: 991

Order the book or read a fragment at Unibook.

Table of Contents

Preface. 2

Copyright notice. 2

Thanks to. 3

Contents. 3

About the author. 5

Chapter 1: Elementary, my dear Watson. 6

• Trick 1: Adding an element of the same type. 7
• Trick 2: Adding related elements to the diagram. 8
• Trick 3: Put target element in diagram. 11
• Trick 4: Bookmarking elements. 13
• Trick 5: Element styles. 13
• Trick 6: Finding elements in the tree. 17
• Trick 7: Nesting elements. 18
• Trick 8: Locking elements. 19
• Trick 9: Add elements directly to a package. 21
• Trick 10: Mimic multilanguage support. 22

Chapter 2: Connecting things. 24

• Trick 11: Exact placement of connectors. 25
• Trick 12: Repeat connector. 26
• Trick 13: Pressing shift while dragging to add a bend. 26
• Trick 14: A bezier curve. 27
• Trick 15: Prompt on connector deletes. 29
• Trick 16: Notes to a connector. 31
• Trick 17: Docking elements. 33
• Trick 18: Parent-child relations, drag and drop style. 35
• Trick 19: converting linked element to local copy. 37
• Trick 20: connecting notes to internal documentation. 39

Chapter 3: Diagrams. 42

• Trick 21: Copy a diagram to the clipboard. 43
• Trick 22: Same size. 45
• Trick 23: Save as shortcut. 48
• Trick 24: Change diagram type. 49
• Trick 25: Package on a diagram.. 52
• Trick 26: Quick zooming. 53
• Trick 27: Shallow or deep copy?. 54
• Trick 28: A legend. 56
• Trick 29: Status colors on diagrams. 60
• Trick 30: Manual layouting. 63

Chapter 4: Toolbox, types and tree. 67

• Trick 31: Toolbox visibility. 68
• Trick 32: Create your own toolbox. 69
• Trick 33: General types. 72
• Trick 34: Auto name counters. 75
• Trick 35: Stereotypes. 76
• Trick 36: Tagged value types. 78
• Trick 37: Inheriting tagged values. 81
• Trick 38: Apply a tagged value to multiple elements. 83
• Trick 39: Sorting tree. 84
• Trick 40: Finding orphans. 86

Chapter 5: A bit more advanced. 87

• Trick 41: Slideshow. 88
• Trick 42: Searches. 90
• Trick 43: Relationship matrix. 91
• Trick 44: Hierarchy window and traceability. 94
• Trick 45: List view. 96
• Trick 46: Filtering. 97
• Trick 47: Printing large diagrams. 99
• Trick 48: The team review.. 102
• Trick 49: Database access. 104
• Trick 50: Visualize workflow. 105

Overview of shortcuts. 108

Index. 110

About the author

Peter is a full-time enterprise architect at a leading HR company, and vice president of the Belgian Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects.

The book is available here.

Dear,

First of all best wishes for the New Year!

We at the Belgian Chapter will promote Enterprise Architecture even more in 2011 with 3 Architect Café’s that offer both theoretical and practical cases.

To kick-start our new season we proudly present you on Thursday 3rd March the following topic: The Business Value of Enterprise Architecture, illustrated by a case study.

This interesting topic is brought to you by Patrick Vandeputte. He holds a Master in Engineering and an MBA and has some 20 years of experience with ICT in various functions. While working for bpost since 2003 he currently leads the Enterprise Architecture team at bpost since 2008. Since then the EA team has been heavily involved in all major business projects and a formal Architecture Board has been integrated as a mandatory quality gate in the E2E demand management process. Last year he initiated an ambitious multi-year corporate EA program ‘WRIGHT’ aiming at better alignment between business and ICT.

RealDolmen will be the host of this Architect Café. Location: De Jachthoorn (Kontich).

Doors are open as from 17h30 and the presentations will be held from 18h to 19h30 (with networking event after the presentations). If you would like to register, please click here.

For the next Architect Café’s, please save the following dates:
- Thursday May 26th 2011 Diegem
- Tuessday Sept. 13th 2011 Brussels

We are looking forward meeting you in March!

Best regards,

The Belgian Chapter of a|EA

PS. We are always looking for interesting presentations, valuable case studies and possible hosting locations.

About the Topic:

About the facilitator:

Erwin Glassée has served as the Pulse program architect through 2008, based in Zürich until mid 2010. Coming from his previous engagement as country enterprise architect for Swiss Life Belgium, he experienced life as an architect at Swiss Life Group both in Rome (physically conveniently located in Zürich) and in the provinces. Erwin has performed previous engagements as consulting IT architect, project manager, business analyst and software engineer (both custom and product software). Erwin is currently ICT Architect and ICT Security Officer at Delta Lloyd Life, starting september 2010.

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