This glossary defines the vocabulary of Tools: the four kinds of tool, the identifier families, the scales and levels, and the artefacts, methods and third-party tools that the chapters treat. Each entry gives the term in one to three sentences, as the originating volume of the series defines it, and names that volume and, where it helps, the chapter of this book that treats the term. It adds no claim of its own. Laws and regulations are not tools, so they have no entry here; the instruments the books attribute statements to are named in the chapters.
Entries are in alphabetical order, with identifier families in code formatting (SVC-*, RST-*) sorted by their letters. An identifier such as SLO-* names a pattern: the wildcard stands for the number the organisation assigns to each record, and the worked examples use NR for Nordvik Region and HM for Hansa Mutual. A reference to an earlier volume is written as the series writes it: Architecture as Code (Chapter N), AI Governance, Chapter N, and so on. A reference to "Chapter N" alone is a chapter of this book. A prefix can name more than one artefact (Chapter 2); where it does, the entry says so.
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About Tools
Tools is a companion to The Transformed Architecture. It collects the tools that Books 1 to 10 describe in one reference, organised by what the practitioner is doing: artefacts (templates, manifests, records), own tools, third-party tools and standards, and methods. Each entry says what a tool is for, when to use it, what it needs and produces, and where the book that defines it explains the reasoning. The book covers choosing, adopting and retiring tools, architecture and delivery, governing AI, securing and testing, operating, agents and autonomy, and people, organisation and society, for European enterprises and public authorities. It comes with a template library, an inventory, three web tools and the Toolbox Maturity Method.
It builds on the conclusions of Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat, The Transformed Security Architect, AI Boss, AI Blue, AI Purple and AI Operations.
Architects and security architects, CIOs and CISOs, platform and operations leads, heads of governance, risk, compliance and third-party risk, AI governance and AI platform teams, red, blue and purple team leads, boards and management bodies, procurement and vendor managers, supervisors and auditors, works councils and unions, data protection officers, and public-sector leaders.
Gunnar Nordqvist
Conceived, directed and published the books of The Transformed Architecture.
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