The goal of the Archipedia is to describe the architectural terms used in solutions, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture in an understandable language. Click on the links below to discover information for terms you may hear in the field, and let us know if there are terms we are missing.
Abstraction
ACID Transaction
Acknowledgement
ACM
Activity Diagram
Actor
Ad Hoc
Aggregation
Agile
AJAX
Analysis
Analysis Class
Analyst
Another Useless Acronym (AUA)
AOP
Application Portfolio
Application Programming Interface (API)
Architecture Modeling Session
Areas of Concern
Artifact
Aspect
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Asynchronous Messaging
AUA
Automagically
Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
Bandwidth
Baseline
Behavior
Behavioral Requirement
Behavioral Modeling
Beta
Body
Booch, Grady
Boundary Object
Bottom Up Design
BPEL
BSC
Bucket
Bucketize
Burning Cycles
Business
Business Activity
Business Architecture
Business Area
Business Collaboration
Business Collaboration Protocol
Business Commitments
Business-IT Alignment
Business Object
Business Operational View
Business Operations Map
Business Process
Business Process Modeling
Business Requirements
Business Rule
Business Service
Business Solutions
Business Transaction
Business Transaction View
Capability
Capacity
Cardinality
CASE
CEO
CFO
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Choreography
Churn
Class Diagram
Class Responsibility Collaborator Card (CRC Card)
Class Responsibility Collaborator Model (CRC Model)
Collaboration Diagram
Commitment
Compliance
Component
Component Diagram
Concept
Concern
Constraint
Content Provider
Context
Context Switch
Control Object
Cross-Cutting Concerns
Cycles
Data Model
Data Flow Diagram
Database
Death March
Dependency
Deployment Diagram
Distributed Systems
Dogfood
Domain
Domain Model
Drinking from the Fire Hose
Drop
Drop Point
EA
EA Framework
Eat Your Own Dogfood
Economic Event
Economic Resource
Economic Resource Type
Element
Encapsulation
Endpoint
Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Enterprise Architecture Framework (EA Framework)
Enumeration
Essential Use Case
Exception
Exception Management
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Facade
Facilitator
Fire Drill
Flow Chart
Framework
Freeze
Functional Specification
Functional Requirement
Generalization
Governance
Granular
Granularity
Greenfield
Greenfield, Jack
GUI
Handoff
Header
Heads Up
Heads Down
Hosed
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
IBM
Industry Architecture
Information Architecture
Infrastructure Architecture
Inheritance
Instance
Instrument
Interface
International Business Machines (IBM)
Interoperability
Interoperation
Invocation
IT Governance
Iteration
Ivory Tower Architecture
Jacobson, Ivar
JAD
Joint Application Development (JAD)
KISS
Latency
Layering
Low Hanging Fruit
Message
Messaging
Meta-Model
Microsoft
Model
Multiplicity
Network Diagram
Normalization (Data)
Normalization (Object)
Notification
Object
Object Constraint Language (OCL)
Object Lifeline
Object Orientation
OCL
The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF)
Operational Requirements
Optionality
Orchestration
Orthogonal
Pattern
Policy
Portability
Portfolio
Portfolio Management
Post Mortem
Process Model
Project Stakeholder
Quality
Quality Bar
Quality Management
Query
Randomize
Rational Software
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Rat Holing
Release
Release Candidate (RC)
Release to Manufacturing (RTM)
Request
Request-Response Dialog
Requirements Document
Requirements Modeling Session
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resonate
Response
Return on Investment (ROI)
ROI
Routing
RTM
Rumbaugh, James
RUP
SaaS
Sanity Check
Scope Creep
SDLC
Separation of Concerns
Sequence Diagram
Service
Service Contract
Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
Service-Level Expectation (SLE)
Service Model
Service Orientation
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SGML
SLA
SLE
SOA
SOAP
Software Architecture
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Software Factories
Solutions Architecture
Sourcing
Stake in the Ground
Standard
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Standards Body
State
State Chart Diagram
State Diagram
State Machine
Stereotype
SWAG
Synchronous Messaging
System Architecture
Taxonomy
Technology Architecture
Time-to-Value
TOGAF
Tool
Top Down Design
Traction
Traceability
Transparency
Triage
Turing, Alan
Turing Award
UDDI Entry
UML
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Use Case
Use Case Analysis
Use Case Diagram
Use Case Model
Waterfall
WBS
Web Applications (WebApps)
WebApps
Web Services
Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Workflow
WSDM
XML
YAA
YAB
YAGNI
YAM
YAR
Zachman Framework
Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA)
Zachman, John
ZIFA
Top of page
Skyscrapr Feed