White Papers - working with eaTeamWorks
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Document Management with EA and eaDocX
This document illustrates how the document management features of eaDocX make it easy to support configuration control of the information produced from your EA models.
Business Rules with EA and eaDocX
This paper discusses how with EA and eaDocX business rules can be managed as a strategic resource and integrated into your project documentation. Enterprise Architect allows you to
Enterprise Architect allows you to capture Business Rules in a range of styles, from simple statements which are just special kinds of Requirement, all the way to executable, verifiable logical statements.
Business Processes Sample
This document shows an annotated example of EA Business Processes documented using eaDocX.
Business Processes with EA and eaDocX
This document illustrates how business processes can be modelled with Enterprise Architect and then how eaDocX makes it easy to document all the richness of that modelling.
This should be read in
conjunction with the "Business Processes Sample" document.
Use Cases Sample
This document shows an annotated example of EA use cases documented using eaDocX.
Single Version of the Truth
The presentation describes how Ian used EA in a large multi national project , and in the process "did less work, had more fun and became (a bit) famous".
This is the second presentation given by Ian at the European EA User Group event in London on Wednesday May 15th 2013. He also presented it in Ottawa at the North American/Canadian EA User Group meeting on May 1st 2013.
Writing Use Cases with EA
This is the presentation given by Ian at the European EA User Group event in London on 15th May 2013.
It describes how to use the EA structured Scenario editor to model "fully dressed" use cases.
Why You Need Excellent Documents
This White Paper looks at ways to transform our project documents, helping readers to find and use information that is relevant to them.
In both Waterfall and Agile developments,
excellent documents can improve project quality and give new insights. New document capabilities allow authors to create high quality, accurate and targeted documents, and allow readers to navigate their way through them in an intuitive way.
By storing information in EA, and using eaDocX, approaches are described that can bring our project communications into the 21st Century. Documents which:
- contain only content which is relevant to the reader
- provide a range of presentation styles
- engage and hold the reader's attention
- guide the reader as to where they should concentrate their attention
- give the reader freedom to navigate the document’s contents as they wish
Making your model eaDocX friendly
When you are creating your models, there are nearly always several ways in which you can do any given task - that's the beauty of EA, and why we use it.
Some choices will help you to
produce readable, useable models, and readable documents, and some which will make those things harder. This article has a few tips to make it easier...
Risk and Issue Management with EA and eaDocX
This paper describes an approach to project risk and issue management using Enterprise Architect and the reporting options provided by eaDocX.
Smarter Meetings with Enterprise Architect
Do some of your meetings end without the result you need? Or with no result at all? Having the right information available at the right time in the right format would make everything so much easier.
Everyone better prepared
Less confusion over what's required
Fewer poor decisions made
Less time wasted
A clear direction mapped out.
EA gives users access to the all the right information at the right time, and it's simple to use documents to format it all and make meetings really productive.
So here are ten top tips for EA users to make your project meetings smarter.
Different Documents for Different People
How can we create personalised documents? Not only that, but also create documents that speed up the work we do, that improve the quality of the work we do, and
that deliver real business benefits?
This White Paper discusses how to use EA and eaDocX to create good quality documents that our readers and organisations need, and will want to read.
White Paper: Color Your Knowledge
Here are some thoughts on how to make best use of the EA and eaDocX color features, to make your models and documents clearer and easier to understand.
The paper looks at
- Using color to show Structure or status, or both.
- Or using it to highlight items for particular users in document.
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