AMCAT - Turning DoDAF Architecting Inside Out
The Air Mobility Command Architecture Tool (AMCAT) started with a simple idea – enterprise data does not change very often. The vocabulary of an enterprise is not invented daily but derives authority from formal policy, doctrine, guidance, orders and instructions. The architecture elements that make up an enterprise’s reality are clearly defined by widely accepted techniques, procedures and governing bodies. By storing and organizing these “architecture primitives”, the task of the architect simply becomes one of selection and assembly into architecture products that represent the characteristics of the architecture.

AMC's Secret Formula
The architecture review paper is an inside look at Air Mobility Command, recognized as a pioneer and innovator in planning and executing architecture efforts ever since the first enterprise architecture (EA) work started in 1994..

Application Inventory
In series of white papers supporting the concept of “Portfolio Management” of information technology resources, we presented the need to inventory all information resources before attemting to strap a portfolio strategy on to them and manage them actively. The topic of inventorying information resources is the subject of this paper.

Architecture Review Paper
The architecture review paper is an inside look at DesignBank's architecture. This paper reveals a different architectural approach to managing metadata.

Business Models for Enterprise Architecture
This white paper will describe the type of business models that can be useful in enterprise architecture work, particularly in “aligning IT to the business” and in IT Portfolio Management, where every IT project or application must be tied to a business initiative, customer value or a key internal business function.

Managing Information EA Systems
AThis paper will present arguments for a new systems development paradigm, which considers the enterprise as a whole and uses a meta-information repository as a mechanism for managing the information assets.

Portfolio Management
This white paper will try to shed some light on what portfolio management entails, and try to strip off some of the consultant jargon that plagues the IT industry. We will start by mentioning a few trends that have led up the current thinking on portfolio management.

Repository Directions
This white paper gives a history of the evolution of repositories. From the beginnings of IRDS, CASE tools and AD/Cycle to Data Warehousing, EAP and ERP. In the world today the word "repository" is used to mean many things. Some consider a repository to be a web site that contains all matter of information and pointers to other useful information. Others believe a repository to be a receptacle for nuclear waste. Both of these are considered to be correct. Because so many definitions are used to describe everything from waste baskets to dynamic web sites, we have presented a little history of metadata repositories. This white paper will explain what makes DesignBank a "classic" repository and also how it differs from others, where its roots are from and where some of the lessons learned have helped give insight into DesignBank.

The Three Amigos
MMC has been working in the area of Enterprise Architectures long before the Clinger Cohen Act and before federal mandates have made the area ubiquitous. Our enterprise architecture related projects have stood the test of time. And in our experience, the chance of success can be significantly improved by paying attention to what we call, the three Amigos: Purpose, Scope and Viewpoint.