Model Kind Overview
This section of the Architecture Description specifies all of the model kinds used in this document.
The various model kinds are:
Model Kinds
- Benefits Map
- Business Model
- Business Plan
- Capability Map
- Capability Model
- Change Model
- Chart of Accounts (CoA)
- Competency Framework
- Conceptual Model (CM)
- Continuity Model
- Core Diagram
- Customer Journey
- Data Model
- Dynamic Model
- External Requirements Indicator Map (ERIMap)
- Financial Cost Model
- Information Model
- Job Role Model
- Operating Model
- Organization Chart
- Process Activity Model
- Process Decisions
- Process High Level Design Model
- Process Model
- Responsibility Chart
- Risk Model
- Road Map
- Stakeholder Map
- Strategy Map
- Supply Chain Model
- Technology Interaction Point
- Title Model
- Value System Model
Other models to include.
- Database Representation (Excel Spreadsheet or SQL Database or XML Document)
- ERD (Metamodel usage)
- Class Model or Schema (used to represent data objects).
- Compliance Maps (External Standards to Business Processes or Tools (IT Systems)).
- Product / Service Models
Link to Current EntSoSADF Model Kinds PDF
Link to EaaSoS Website Structure PDF for the: Enterprise as a System of Systems
See The Art of Enterprise Architecture for Business Architects and for a comprehensive list of models, patterns and interactions.
Each model is described using the following set of information:
Description
Name and Description of the model.
Contents
A description of the contents of the model and any required or optional information.
Languages, Notations, Conventions
Any specific guidance related to the way the model is constructed or presented.
Methods - Create, Analysis, Identify
Methods or steps to create, analyse (use) and identify the need for the model.
Modelling Techniques
Any techniques standard approaches or workshop methods (SWOT or VPEC-T, etc) that may be useful to create or maintain the model.
Examples
Reference or link to any examples (copyable) that can be seen as representative of this model kind.
References
Model Kind Links