Ep. 7 - Import of Existing Content

Episode 7 of the What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified podcast, hosted by Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson, titled "Ep. 7 - Import of Existing Content" was published on October 11, 2021 and runs 67 minutes.

October 11, 2021 ·67m · What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

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Summary

Welcome to a new episode of your favorite podcast. The topic of today is to capture and import the vast amounts of existing content in your organization, and how to integrate this into your repository. The import is one of the four major steps of an architecture tool implementation that we discussed in Episode 3. Why bringing in existing content? Concerns: age of content, correctness, type of storage (project vs. Enterprise Baseline), integration into dev method/SDLC, document naming/versioning Size of import: number of models and complexity drive effort Content format: how to map the information to models, objects, attributes Create catalog of to-be-imported content (> Notion) Five phases of import: preparation, initial import, create new model, normalization, quality assurance Preparation: catalog, database setup, filter/permission considerations, tool mapping (Visio), tracking and reporting Initial import: detailed look at what to import; automatically or manually import, use catalog for tracking, issues when importing Create new models: BPMN Collaboration example, merge between different databases Normalization: where does content go into structure (subprocesses, catalog models, etc.), object consolidation, adapting models to "correct" layout/standards (such as object naming) QA: modeler QA vs. central QA, semantic checks, macros, automated workflows; release and publish, communication Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here. The  full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at whatsyourbaseline.com/episode7.

Episode Description

The import is one of the four major steps of an architecture tool implementation that we discussed in Episode 3.

Why bringing in existing content?
Concerns: age of content, correctness, type of storage (project vs. Enterprise Baseline), integration into dev method/SDLC, document naming/versioning
Size of import: number of models and complexity drive effort
Content format: how to map the information to models, objects, attributes
Create catalog of to-be-imported content (> Notion)
Five phases of import: preparation, initial import, create new model, normalization, quality assurance
Preparation: catalog, database setup, filter/permission considerations, tool mapping (Visio), tracking and reporting
Initial import: detailed look at what to import; automatically or manually import, use catalog for tracking, issues when importing
Create new models: BPMN Collaboration example, merge between different databases
Normalization: where does content go into structure (subprocesses, catalog models, etc.), object consolidation, adapting models to "correct" layout/standards (such as object naming)
QA: modeler QA vs. central QA, semantic checks, macros, automated workflows; release and publish, communication