Here are my most heart-felt wish list items for the Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio:
- Make it easy for me to manage a collection of bookmarks to locations within a repository
- For The Love of God
- create a way for me to define a template - to generate a
PDF/HTML/Markdown/PowerPoint/Word document - with sections, a table of contents, table of diagrams, selection criteria for
diagrams/views to be included, ways to ingest/specify snippets of text, a glossary, etc.
- It is MANUALLY INTENSIVE to have to individually select each view, export it, and assemble them (MANUALLY) into a PowerPoint or Word document.
- When diagrams change (frequently) in Bizzdesign, repeating that whole process is MANUALLY INTENSIVE.
- This would go a long way to supporting Enterprise Architecture teams that want to automate the production of Solution Architecture Design (SAD) documents for Architecture Review Board (ARB) governance.
- I should be able to retrieve
diagrams/views via RESTful APIs - so that I can cobble together my own
publishing engine - to create artifacts - a la a CI/CD pipeline...
- The left-hand Model Browser pane - should allow me to increase the font size - independently of other panes.
- Within a Note element - I should be able to modify the font style of selected portions of text.
- Within a Note element - I should be able to add hyperlinks - to selected text
- I should be able to create a type of repository that allows me to include a mixture of ArchiMate, BPMN, and UML views.
- Creating a quick, ad hoc UML Sequence diagram should be easy - not HARD.
- Exporting a diagram - should be EASY - not HARD - i.e., it should not require multiple steps
- I should be able to EASILY specify a target sub-folder (i.e., related content) for publishing/exporting a diagram/view
- I should be able to EASILY download a zip of all published/exported diagrams/views - or a selected sub-folder.
- I should be able to EASILY delete/purge/clean the folder where exported/published PDF/SVG docs reside
- Since
MS Word doesn't support inserting SVG images - please add support for
JPG, PNG, BMP image types to the Report export capability for a
diagram/view.
- PLEASE - make drawing/bending of lines and connecting elements - EASIER. This is probably the single most PAINFUL aspect of working with Bizzdesign - when you are working with a very dense diagram of many elements and lines.
- Provide a collection of different out-of-the-box templates for how EA team can organize their content. Organizations WASTE months debating different approaches - and they need HELP and GUIDANCE on BEST PRACTICES.
- Provide some out-of-the-box guidance/examples on how to model/organize the decomposition of Roadmaps, Strategic Initiatives, Programs, Projects - or in the parlance of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Provide some out-of-the-box guidance on Naming Convention BEST PRACTICES. What have you seen in the field - that works - and what doesn't work (or perhaps just has some unintended consequences)
- For organizations that will be integrating with a CMDB (like ServiceNow) - what would be a good naming convention for elements that have not yet been defined/created in ServiceNow - and yet need to be established in the Bizzdesign repository.
- Provide concrete suggestions for how to identify/name/manage elements that may only be modeled as a WHAT-IF scenario - and my never actually be implemented (e.g., multiple vendor solutions being considered/modeled as part of an RFP evaluation phase).
