S1E4 - How to Select an Architecture Tool

<p>Welcome to episode 4 of the <a href="https://www.whatsyourbaseline.com/podcast/">What’s Your Baseline podcast</a>. We are talking about:</p> <ul> <li>Types of architecture tools: drawing tools, implementation front ends, database-driven architecture tools</li> <li>How users see things: data-driven visualization vs. visualization-driven data (tables vs diagrams)</li> <li>Focus of architecture tools &gt; niche vendors - your stakeholder needs drive the focus</li> <li>What to look for when selecting tools:How do you get started (personal equipment, existing information, etc.)<br> Selecting the tool - what to look for: modeling, dashboards, wiki, data ingestion + insights<br> Functionalities of architecture tools<br> Deployment and cost<br> People<br> Non-functional criteria (vendor, community, change readiness, etc.)</li> </ul> <p>Please reach out to us by either sending an email to <a href="mailto:hello@whatsyourbaseline.com">hello@whatsyourbaseline.com</a>, or leaving us a voice message by clicking<a href="https://anchor.fm/whatsyourbaseline/message"> </a><a href="https://anchor.fm/whatsyourbaseline/message" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>The &nbsp;full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at <a href="//whatsyourbaseline.com/episode4" target="_blank">whatsyourbaseline.com/episode4</a><strong>.</strong></p>