PowerDesigner for Business Architecture at MTO
Yesterday I started work on a one-month contract with Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation (MTO). Four of us are rapidly assembling the business architecture for the Road User Safety division, to support their Modernization automation project. I’m already impressed with team they have assembled for this huge job. Most of my questions have been answered with “We’ve already been working on that”.
One architect is dedicated to standardizing our methodology and our use of PowerDesigner. MTO has customized this CASE tool for many smaller business architectures, which is a fantastic improvement over the usual Visio method. (See my earlier commentary on why CASE tools are better, but still not sufficient to support business thinking.) Merging the smaller architectures will still require a lot of effort, due to different PowerDesigner extensions and versions, as well as varying levels of detail and quality in the architecture content.
