I read the MDA Guide v 1.0.1

Just reading the title of this post you know I’m kidding. This founding OMG’s MDA guide is unreadable by a human being ;D. However, even if skipping a lot of sections, it’s interesting enough to worth reading it as it

Path from ADM to MDA

The Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) approach to migration projects follows a three steps workflow: Full source code reverse modelling, Model transformation from source architectural  model to target architectural model, Target code generation combining target architectural model generation and algorithmic source

IS modernization process vs target architecture

Question is: in an ADM automated process, has the target architecture definition to be part of the process? Or has it to be (pre)defined regarding enterprise architectural IT plan? Answer is: both but enterprise business needs rank first. In an