Metamodel of Business Architecture Guild defines two relationships between Value Stream Stages and Value Item labeled as Entry Criteria and Exit Criteria. These relationships are missing in the BACM.

Metamodel of Business Architecture Guild defines two relationships between Value Stream Stages and Value Item labeled as Entry Criteria and Exit Criteria. These relationship are missing in the BACM.

As a condition of acceptance by the Architecture Board, the FTF is required to produce a MOF compliant XMI file. MOF does not allow profiles or association classes. To allow a faithful translation of the EA model, some new classes were introduced that translate stereotyped associations into a pattern of a class and two associations. To facilitate this, some new classes were added to the BusinessElement diagram and some redundant classes and generalizations were removed. Prose explanations should be added following the new BusinessElement diagram

The XMI file exported from the EA model is not MOF compliant. It includes class-associations and a profile with stereotypes that effectively define cass associations. Additionally, the semantics of "shortcut" stereotypes on associations must be expressed in OCL.