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1Example – Stakeholders and Requirements

1.1Checking all diagrams

Checking some Example Diagrams

Table of contents

1Example – Stakeholders and Requirements

1.1Checking all diagrams

The examples are all in the Model Expert Example model, in the package Diagrams to be checked – un-managed.

Example – Stakeholders and Requirements

Step Description See Also
1 Find Diagram #1
2 Choose Specialize / Model expert / Check diagram Quality Check a Diagram
3 Choose the ‘Stakeholders and requirements’ Reference Model
4 Check diagram – there should be no errors!
5 Now check Diagram #2 with the same Reference Model
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7 This shows that there are quite a few errors which are not obvious from the diagram: missing tagged values, incorrect element types, and incorrect relationships. And this is a small diagram!
8 Open the same diagram as a Relationship Matrix, and use the same Reference Model to check it. Setting up an Enhanced EA Matrix Report
9 Now check Diagram #3 with the same Reference Model
10 This shows some different errors: there is a required tagged value which has a bad value, and an element does not have a connector which is required.

Checking all diagrams

To check all the diagrams in a package, and all the contents of the package, see Check package against a Reference Model