Theory 20 minutes + Workshop 60 minutes
Duration: 80 minutes. Artefact produced: ArchiMate reading assessment.
Module Overview
Recognise business, application, technology, strategy, and implementation layers.
Interpret flow, serving, assignment, composition, realisation, and access relationships.
Explain what a view is trying to communicate without getting lost in notation.
Identify diagrams that are too crowded, unclear, or unsupported by decisions.
Theory
ArchiMate gives architects a structured language for describing how business, application, technology, and implementation concepts relate. The goal is not to memorise every symbol. The goal is to read views well enough to understand intent, dependency, ownership, and impact.
Workshop
Review an architecture view and identify the business capability, application services, technology services, dependencies, and transition concerns it communicates.
Annotate an ArchiMate-style view with its key message, elements, relationships, risks, and missing information.
Explain the architecture story shown by the view in plain business language.
Annotated view; relationship notes; plain-language summary; quality assessment.
Module 9 — Current and Target Architecture Views.