For people who come from a software architecture background and have used UML as their primary visual language to describe technology systems, ArchiMate can sometimes seem like a sort of inferior cousin - kind of the same family, but not quite.
We make great use of pictures in all types of architecture work, whether it is in the form of component diagrams in detailed solution architectures or core diagrams in the more abstract enterprise architecture domain.
This post will go on to describe three other essential concepts (Influencer, Assessment and Impact) as well as return to the Means concept to explore the idea of Directives. The previous diagram can be expanded to conclude these new concepts.
