Strategy, Architecture Framework & Modeling Language Authoring

 

            Labnaf Strategy & Architecture Framework

Labnaf is a highly customizable modeling language and framework that semantically merges and extends standards into a meaningful architecture workflow. The framework features some extensive and configurable modeling language and tools along with pragmatic on-line documentation.

The strategy, architecture and planning standards that have been semantically merged  into the Labnaf framework include ArchiMate, BPMN, UML, TOGAF, SAFe, Strategy Map, Gartner EA Stage Planning, IT4IT, PESTEL Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Analysis and Business Model Generation.

The Labnaf enterprise transformation method, the modeling language and the repository structure are independent of their software implementation.

The current software implementation is provided as a robust Sparx Enterprise Architect software extension. Sparx is the most common, yet affordable, modeling platform (more than 580 000 licenses worldwide). The scalable architecture repository provides numerous concurrent users with enterprise visibility and traceability across many dimensions.

 

            Automation by Nature

“Automation by Nature” is the name of an approach for creating homogenous specifications of heterogeneous systems that are not necessarily intentional and that can involve humans, software and machinery. The consistency of the approach is enforced by some natural semantics and ontology.

In practice, the approach can be used for the design and composition of specification languages (including enterprise architecture modeling languages), development processes and software product lines.

 

Creating and Integrating Domains

This article discusses some domain specific challenges that we face when creating and integrating domain specific software factories and languages.