Myself, worked as enterprise architect for more than ten years, in the early days, the hqndson tool was Visio primarily, while, when I first time saw Archi in 2021, and got linkage from it to Open Group / TOGAF / ArchiMate, I started to realize the big difference between the diagramming tools (e.g. Visio, drawio) vs modeling tool (e.g. this Archi and many other free or commercial EA tools), and use Archi not only for replacing my daily diagramming activities by creating the model, but also adopted Archi in our architecture team working on one common EA repository, in both situation Archi plays as one brilliant tool.
Archi tool, which developed by Phil Beauvoir and Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, is kept as one very actively evolving and maintained modeling platform, surrounded by numeric plug-ins either provided by Archi team directly or by many contributors. Also you may find great resource and help from “Archi Forum”, at where you can interact with Phil, JB and others nearly instantly.
Archi publishes its User Guide for people to familiar with the tool, however, until preparing this course, I hadn’t gotten time to read through the guide thoroughly, now with section by section detail reading and building up demo videos, I also get a lot new things learnt, many “hidden” tips which I didn’t aware but really helpful.
I had several courses showing how to model with ArchiMate language specification using Archi, this course has the different perspective which is focuing the Archi Tool itself. So, if you’d like to learn Archi and expect to gain more experience of using the tool, this is the course developed for you.
It’s not the intention to earn money from the course, since the tool is open source, and I’d like to share my learning and experience with all of you, however, it’s not able to set the course free if the total length longer than 2 hours, please understand that. After all, if you choose to buy the course, thank you very much, this is also one prove of your supporting me to make more courses and keep sharing! Furthermore, I’ve talked with Phil and will contribute certain percentage of earning here to Archi tool so that we can together to make the tool better!
If you don’t mind to wait and see the intro/outro clips, you may also find those videos published in my variable channels, feel free to watch them. The difference, and the advantage, here in Udemy is I can show you better curriculum structure and easier linking to more reference materail.
Do make your choice, the more important is to start learning! And I wish you enjoy the course and all the best!
- Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Solution Architect, as well as anyone want to learn skills for modeling
