Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture
Design a mature enterprise architecture repository using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate® 3.1
Mudar Bahri
Joe Williams
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture
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Contributors
About the authors
Mudar Bahri is an enterprise architect with long, progressive experience in implementing TOGAF® in large and midsized organizations. He is an independent Enterprise Architecture (EA) mentor and consultant and helps architects to build and develop practical EA skills that can provide decision-makers with useful artifacts. He is a certified TOGAF® 9.1 Enterprise Architect with experience in other EA frameworks and project management methodologies. He has used TOGAF® to develop digital transformation strategies, cloud migration plans, solution architectures, and proposals. He believes that EA is meant to bridge gaps, not create new ones, so it has to be simple, practical, and serve everyone.
Joe Williams has over 40 years of experience in software engineering and architecture on many platforms and spanning several business domains, including retail, banking, health insurance, telecommunications, environment monitoring, and government systems. He holds a BS degree in information systems from the University of San Francisco and is a TOGAF® 9.1 certified practitioner. Joe preaches the practice of modeling every chance he gets. He is an expert in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and has helped establish architecture practices at several organizations. He has been modeling solutions using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect since 2007 and other modeling tools since 1995. He is currently retired and living in northern California.
About the reviewer
Kris Marshall is a results-driven chief enterprise architect with over 20 years of accomplishments in information technology leadership, enterprise architecture, learning technologies (artificial intelligence and machine learning), and organizational transformation. Kris has extensive experience with business strategy development (for over 35 public and private organizations) and defines business and solution architectures in support of those strategies, aligning organizational goals and the IT infrastructure that support them.
As a doctoral graduate of Pepperdine University, Kris' research focuses on enterprise architecture theory and the intersectionality of learning technologies. Kris presently supports numerous university research labs and participates in research groups at Pepperdine University, MIT, and Singularity University.