ArchDev™ and its Architecture Evolution Life Cycle (AELC™) complement and address Agile/DevOps inefficiencies in the area of architecture management.

ArchDev™

Archemy's ArchDev™ proprietary methodology integrates several aspects:

• Brings Enterprise and Business Architecture disciplines to bear on how solutions are defined, specifically with respect to articulating the factors that drive trade-offs between competing implementation options. This ensures that the solutions that Archemy™ recommends or builds for customers reflect a joint understanding of the changes that are most likely to occur in their lifecycle and account for the current costs of implementing more flexible intelligent autonomous solutions and related architectures now vs. the downstream costs of implementing such with higher costs to modify later. Among other things, ArchDev™ precludes emergent architectures.


• Ensures maximum exploitation of Adaptive Reuse of the Archifacts in the Archemy™ Assets Catalog to accelerate implementations and minimize costs and risks, which helps customers avoid "reinventing the wheel".


• Creates documentation by-products consistent with Archemy's Ontology and Taxonomy, which ensures a continued ability to compare the business solutions and related architectures that Archemy™ implements for its customers with the evolving landscape of business problems, tools and software products and services.


• Ensures best-of-breed architectures that can be monetized by being resold through the Archemy™ Assets Catalog.

AELC™

ArchDev's Architecture Evolution Lifecycle (AELC™) methodology provides the following stages:

• Ideation:


• Incorporates knowledge and innovation management and design thinking to identify and select innovative intelligent solutions to recurring business problems.


• Inception:


• Engineers requirements, which involves tool-based discovery of user stories/cases, and


• Evaluates candidate intelligent solutions and related architectures via Archemy's tool-enabled selection and customization of reusable assets that apply to business problems, and/or creation of new best-of-breed intelligent solutions and related architectures when required.


• Elaboration:


• Designs solutions by focusing on specification development while leveraging tacit and/or explicit knowledge, adaptive reuse, and best-practice architecting.


• Implementation:


• Customizes and assembles solutions by leveraging knowledge and innovation management, adaptive reuse and best-practice architecting. With defined architectures targeted, Agile programming techniques may be employed to speed up solution development without many of the typical downsides previously identified.


• Deployment:


• Focuses on overall solutions' suitability, quality and speed of delivery and achieves deployment via Archemy’s expertise in the AEAM™ approach that subsumes a combination of techniques from ArchDev™ and Agile/DevOps to adapt, reuse, implement, and deploy intelligent best practice reusable business technology solutions.

Ontology and Taxonomy

Archemy's Ontology and Taxonomy is an Enterprise Architecture-focused tacit/explicit knowledge classification scheme that can be expanded without limit and which can accommodate dimensions that are completely orthogonal to one-another. This enables searches by users of completely different perspectives to produce valid results for each. By adding or deleting search dimensions, it is often possible to identify non-obvious solutions of interest that might never have been found using traditional means because they were tied to a domain not the searcher’s own.

ArchART™

ArchARTtrade; is Archemy's reference taxonomy that describes technical solutions.