visualspec.org

Introduction

What is this site all about?

Design balance in information systems

The benefits and limitations of models

Attitude

The analyst's attitude

What Squash can teach us about learning environments

When effort estimations feel like buying showroom kitchens

Visual Specification

Communicating Designs

Overview of Representations

Representing Strategy

Representing Information

Representing Processes

Information Modeling

Ontologies

Introduction to Ontologies

Business Ontologies

3 orders of Logic

Weak versus Strong Typing

Elements of an Ontology

Ontology Patterns

Ontology Anti-Patterns

Processes

Introduction to Process Modeling

Why are processes important?

Elements of Process Modeling

Events

Introduction to Events

Events in the Enterprise

An Architecture to process Events

Capabilities

Modeling Capabilities

Download Templates

Business Templates

System Templates

Technical Templates

Enterprise Governance

The concerns of Enterprise Governance

Application Inventorization

Functional Coverage

Managing Architecture Debt

Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership

Enterprise Architecture

Elements of Enterprise Architecture

Distributed, De-centralized, and Disruptive? Or Continuous, Centralized, and Concentrated?

Dynamic Models and Static Models of the Enterprise

Enterprise Blueprint

Enterprise Services

On System Design

What is a System?

What are Information Systems?

What's important to the business?

Characteristics of Effective Information Systems