There’s no “Official” tool, but there are many capable ones
There’s no “Official” tool for making IDEF0 diagrams. Perhaps because they are so rudimentary that such a tool couldn’t possibly have a giant competitive advantage over one-another, but perhaps more likely just that there isn’t really a huge demand, despite the fact that IDEF0 is “the most useful tool” to communicate business change, according to the author of Business Process Re-engineering using IDEF0. While there are multitude of tools and platforms trying to be “the platform” for SysML, UML, and even Archimate, the best tools for IDEF are general-purpose in nature.
This means there’s no guarantee of Referential Integrity enforced by the tooling. This is something that, frankly, I could build myself someday™️.
Tools
- Pen & Paper- it’s what the language was designed with, and it works well!
- Excalidraw - my favorite white boarding app is great, perhaps the best, for making single diagrams. It’s not great for multi-page “drillable” diagrams, though.
- DrawIO - is good for multi-page diagramming and looks to have everything else!
