Core Concepts

The domain model of the Innovenso Townplanner is structured around a few concepts:

• Elements
• Relationships
• Properties
• Views

Elements

Elements are basically the boxes in diagrams. There are many specializations of the Element, such as IT System, Business Actor, Business Capability, ...

Elements typically have a unique key to identify it, a title and a description. Specializations can have more properties.

Relationships

Relationships are the lines in diagrams. There are quite a few types of relationships, including flow, realization, impact, ...

Like elements, relationships have a unique key, a title and a description.

Properties

Properties provide the capability to enrich elements and relationships in the model, with extra information. There are properties to add documentation, architecture verdict, SWOT analysis, ...

Views

Views are used to render diagrams and documents about a part of the town plan. Like Archimate Viewpoints, a view is a selection of a relevant subset of the elements of the townplan and their relationships.