Departmental Plans (DP) are expenditure plans for each appropriated department and agency (excluding Crown corporations). They describe departmental priorities, strategic outcomes, programs, expected results and associated resource requirements, covering a three-year period beginning with the year indicated in the title of the report. Projects being undertaken by an organization should… Read more »
Download: .eap, .XMI (1.1), .XMI (2.1) A few years ago I created a standard package structure to use for projects, this let me do a few things: More quickly ramp up new projects Make it easier to reuse projects (copy / edit) Make it easier for other people to find… Read more »
Sparx EA has the ability to “visually” link a connector between two elements to a start and end at specific attributes under those elements. A few years ago I dug in to the repository and figured out where and how this information is stored so I can include it in… Read more »
A few years ago I posted how I’ve been organizing projects in Sparx EA. Since then I’ve made some refinements that I thought I’d share. The number of main nodes have been reduced to 4: 01 – Sandboxes 02 – Common Area Welcome Best Practices and Guidelines Architecture Catalogue Project… Read more »
A few years ago I started organizing the requirements in my projects in a very specific way and that approach has greatly simplified my discussions with project stakeholders. My definitions roughly align with IIBA’s definitions in their Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), but are more constrained. Under BABOK 3.0… Read more »
When working with Sparx EA I often want to generate a report to discuss a set of Elements in the context of their relationship to other elements. I’ve made the following query that returns: Connected Elements: to the current element (current <- other) Connected Elements: from the current element (current… Read more »
Over the years I’ve created several scripts and script libraries to automate my work in Sparx EA, specially importing new data, and keeping that data in sync with the original source. Because of my job/life there can often be months, between when I first start working on a script and… Read more »
Warning: Be very careful using this method to directly update your Sparx EA repository. Most objects in the Sparx EA repository requires updates to multiple tables in the underlying database, unless you know what you’re doing I strongly suggest using the API to do additions and updates in your repository…. Read more »
One of the main reasons I created my own script library for Sparx EA was to have an efficient way to quickly retrieve and update information for all the child Objects that occur under a given set of parent Objects. From what I can tell, there are 8 main types… Read more »
Warning: I typically only use the method described in this post for TaggedValues, almost every other “add” to the Sparx EA repository requires additions to multiple tables in the underlying database, unless you know what you’re doing I strongly suggest using the API to do additions and updates in your… Read more »