Wardley Sketches in Archi
(the free and open source ArchiMate Modeling tool)
As a recovering Enterprise Architect, I do not want to use Atlas or any other tool in “genesis or custom built state” for creating Wardley maps, including power point templates.
I want it in the Enterprise Architecture standard tools, e.g. as a set of Wardley mapping templates. I just started this journey using one of the standard EA (town planner) tools called Archi, which uses the ArchiMate modelling language, defined by the Open Group for enterprise architects to support their TOGAF model.
Archi has a Sketch View mode, using colored stickies, which allows me to create various “Wardley sketches”, I am using to create new views on IT systems landscapes and their evolution, similar to the maps popularized by Simon Wardley (swardley).
At the moment, this is work in progress, once I have created the corresponding Architemplates, I’ll put them on Github and annouce availability via Twitter.
