We see a process, in which we see three ‘lanes’, for which I have used (as customary in swim lane modelling, but certainly not by definition) the performers of the activities. I have modelled this in ArchiMate as follows (basing myself on Jos’ choices) and in the Mastering ArchiMate colouring scheme:įor those acquainted with processes modelled in swim lanes, this is directly understood. In the meantime, the program calculates some sort of values and sends this result to the Boss who checks the warning. The process description says he must then inform his Boss. A clerk enters data in a program, if the data leads to some sort of serious exception, the clerk is signalled, e.g. If we would like to do something like this in ArchiMate, how would that look? Well, to make matters more interesting, let’s include a process where one step is done automated, in other words: by a system. To see what kind of information the business users like, it is something like this (the example is The Flower Shop from one of my open letters to TOG about improving the standard): So, given that his business users have no real use for all the richness and niceties of BPMN (they just want swim lanes, risk/controls, RACI, etc.) he decided that he could serve their needs fully in ArchiMate, thus enabling a simple but good enough way for process documentation and an integrated publication.
Switching from ArchiMate views to BPMN views was not possible. The problem he ran into with the original synchronisation was that it was impossible (in the tool we use) to create an integrated published architecture. My esteemed colleague Jos Knoops has set this up. But, if you forego the richness and niceties of a real process modelling language, you might do something that is close enough for most organisations, even if it is technically not 100% valid ArchiMate. In the book there is a proposed way to link these and my configuration for one of the tools supports that synchronisation. That is why I personally prefer to combine BPMN with ArchiMate, but that is not trivial (as explained here and here). It has only limited support for process modelling. ArchiMate is not a process modelling language.
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