Did you ever struggle in your organisation with a feeling that in many software projects and IT organisations in general, environments seems to be among the most difficult things to get right? And did you ever wonder why it can be so hard? Read on! I have asked myself this…

Introduction Over the years, software architecture models and frameworks have come a long way, evolving to address the challenges and complexities in the world of software development. Starting from the early days of the Zachman Framework, moving on to the more comprehensive TOGAF, then to the 4+1 architectural view model, and…

Introduction and objectives In this article, I will introduce a software architecture metamodel that I find useful for agile digital transformation of complex enterprises. The metamodel is based on ideas from TOGAF and C4 and it provides a simple yet powerful approach to the creation of software architecture models across the four architectural…

Abstract The C4-model is getting traction as an industry standard for software architecture diagrams. Although the C4-model is a great starting point, the model can and should be improved to gain popularity. In this article I propose the following: The four key abstractions should be changed from: context, container, component and…