Simplicity is not Simple: How Business Architecture in One of Belgium’s Biggest Companies Can Be Simple and Easy-to-Use

Part 9: Engineering MethodsInternational audienceAs organizations are becoming more complex, Enterprise Architecture (EA) serves as an important means to align the strategy with the operations and to achieve business/IT (i.e., Information Technology) alignment. Although numerous approaches have been designed for large enterprises, little EA research was oriented towards small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, both organizational types are fundamentally different and require a tailored approach. Therefore, CHOOSE was designed as an EA approach that is in accordance with the needs of SMEs. By performing a case study in the department of a large enterprise, this paper aims to investigate how CHOOSE can be used outside its original context. More specifically, it will be examined how the metamodel and modeling method could be extended to deliver an overview and valuable insights about a complex business reality. To realize this, potential solutions for the encountered issues are formulated and evaluated by the involved business stakeholders

Domain Modelling in Bloom: Deciphering How We Teach It

Part 1: Regular PapersInternational audienceDomain modelling is a crucial part of Enterprise Modelling and considered as a challenge in enterprise engineering education. Pedagogy for this subject is not systematized and teachers or book authors develop the curriculum based on their own experience and understanding of the subject. This leads to a wide diversity of pedagogical methods, learning paths and even drastic differences in the applied terminology. In this paper, we identified and classified learning outcomes from several educational resources on domain modelling according to the revised Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. We identified the similarities and gaps among the resources, such as lack of evaluation-related tasks, as well as the insufficient presence of procedural knowledge related tasks. The examples of most popular tasks are given, along with the directions to the future development of a systematic educational framework and guidelines for domain modelling pedagogy