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UML®, Archimate®, TOGAF®, BPMN™, Scrum

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  • reflektis is now an OMG accredited training provider!
    Today the accreditation process for our BPM training came back positively: as of December 2025 reflektis is an officially accredited training provider! Our BPM training started off in 2012 with DHL Express as one of our first customers in The Netherlands. By now we have helped hundreds of people in applying BPMN. The training has…
  • How to effectively prepare for an ArchiMate® training
    The most common hurdle for participants is the information overload. Both the ArchiMate metamodel and all the ArchiMate concepts with their definitions may be overwhelming to absorb. There are only three days in which all this information is presented and explained, with limited time available for exercises. This is where some preparation is going to…
  • NORA processen en ArchiMate
    In mijn vorige post Procesconcepten in NORA heb ik geprobeerd wat licht te werpen op het modelleren van processen in BPMN, gebaseerd op de NORA definities van processen. Dat artikel is vooral bedoeld voor procesontwerpers en bedrijfsanalisten die voor (overheids-) organisaties in Nederland bezig zijn processen te beschrijven. Dit artikel richt zich meer op enterprise/bedrijfsarchitecten.…
  • Procesconcepten in NORA
    De NORA (Nederlandse Overheids Referentie Architectuur) definieert een aantal concepten over processen. In dit artikel wil ik ingaan op de definities van: NORA definieert de concepten correct, maar summier, en ik kom in de praktijk tegen dat hierdoor veel voorkomende fouten gemaakt worden. In dit artikel kom je te weten hoe je ketenprocessen, bedrijfsprocessen en…
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Beyond Disembodied Concepts
    New Year in The Netherlands has always had a problematic association for me because of an experience I had as a small child. My parents and I stayed at my grandmother’s for the occasion, and I was put to bed on New Year’s Eve being to young to be able to stay up. At midnight…
  • Digital Twins Done Right
    My gosh, everyone is now writing about Digital Twins! I should be delighted, you’d assume. Someone within Gartner must have resonated with some article of mine from 20 or some years ago… A few examples: Well, not really. In the first place, I fear they may not have really read some article by me or…
  • TOGAF ADM Revised
    Intro TOGAF defines its process or method in something called the ADM: the Architecture Development Method. It is usually represented by the illustration below, with the familiar arrangement of circles around Requirements Management, which has come to be the iconic representation of TOGAF. Waterfall mindset The Open Group itself is clear on the ADM in…
  • Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
    .aeon.coYour brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer.

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