A Continuous Delivery Pipeline for EA Model Evolution

Abstract

The pace of changing structures and complexity within enterprise architecture (EA) models is expected to increase. This will challenge existing maintenance processes of EA models. To tackle this challenge, we propose to adapt the well-known concept of continuous delivery (CD) from the agile software development domain. We propose to automate the necessary steps to ensure EA model quality by applying multiple validation and analysis steps. Therefore, this results shorter feedback loops and helps to uncover possible conflict as early as possible.