TP3146 Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Intermediate Training
The course contents include:
• Model organization with the package browser - list view
• Working with existing model elements such as changing element and relationship types
• Working in a team within a project – discussions, mail, reviews, etc.
• Sharing common data among projects
• Searching a model
• Brief Introduction to Available Model Driven Generation Technologies (BPMN, TOGAF, and UML)
Objectives
• Understand the model repository and how to best organize the model for document generation and version control
• Develop enough knowledge to work effectively on team projects
• How model security affects users
• Package vs Model versioning demonstration
• How to find help (Find Command, etc.)
Prerequisites
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect – Introduction or equivalent
Participants need access to Sparx Enterprise Architect for hands-on exercises.
Duration
Two days
Outline for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Intermediate Training
Chapter 1
• The importance of packages
• Introduction to Model Libraries
• Support for systems thinking -
• Sharing objects and relationships to avoid duplication
Chapter 2
• Review of EA Introduction – what you should know
• Managing UML packages as a way to organize ArchiMate models
• Package exercises – viewing contained data
• Moving and copying model elements
• When is it a good idea and when is it a bad idea
• Copying diagrams for “what if” exercises
Chapter 3
• Managing elements
• Tagged values – using and modifying tags
• Customizing the EA reference data
• Relationship matrices – using overlays
• Reviewing traceability relationships
Chapter 4
• Model management – import and exporting elements
• EA Team support - Model mail
• Team reviews, element discussions
• Expanding model searches
• Import diagram searches with views
Chapter 5
• Metafile vs Bitmap – to make it scalable in a presentation or word doc – to get to an image that is scalable
• Sharing content with stakeholders who don’t have EA licenses
• EA Lite
• HTML Reports
• Word/PDF documents
Chapter 6
• Drilling down from ArchiMate to detailed diagrams
• Behavior and structural models
Chapter 7
• Exploring the Tips and Tricks model