Business Architecture

Purpose

Describe basic business architecture

Develop target business

Describe strategy to improve the product and services

Describe functional, organization, information & geographic aspect of the business environment

Describe enterprise needs to operate,respond & concern the stakeholders

analyze current and future architecture

choose tools & relevant technique for business architecture

Business architecture Steps

Select reference models, viewpoints & tools

Develop business architecture

Perform gap analysis

Define candicate roadmap components

Business modelling

Develop baseline description of existing business architecture

Develop target description of future business architecture

Verify architecture models for internal consistency and accuracy

Identify gaps between baseline and target

Required to prioritized activities over coming phases

Make initial selections of grouping business architecture

Used as raw material to support more detailed definition of a consolidated, cross dicipline roadmap within opportunities & Solutions phase

Activity models

Use case models

Class models

Describe

The functions associated with the enterprise business activities


The data/information exchanged between activities(Internal exchanges) and outside the scope of model(External Exchanges)

Capture the activities

Performed in business process

ICOMs(Input Control Output Mechanism) of those activities

Describe

Describe the business process of an enterprise in terms of use-cases and actors corresponding to business processes and organizational participants

Either business processes or systems functions, depending on the focus of the modeling effort

Tools

Use case diagrams

Use case specifications

Describe

Static information and relationships between information

Informational behaviours

Represent

Business domain entities or systems implementation classes

Key business information,characteristic, behaviors & relationship

Node Connectivity diagrams

Information exchanges matrix

Resolve impacts accross the architecture landscape

Identify does this Business Architecture create an impact on any pre-existing architectures?

Identify have recent changes been made that impact on the Business Architecture?

Identify are there any opportunities to leverage work from this Business Architecture in other areas of the organization?

Identify does this Business Architecture impact other projects (including those planned as well as those currently in progress)?

Identify will this Business Architecture be impacted by other projects (including those planned as well as those currently in progress)?

Conduct formal stakeholder review

Finalize the business architecture

Document final requirements traceability report

Document final mapping of the architecture within the Architecture Repository

Finalize all the work products, such as gap analysis results

Create architecture definition document

Check the original motivation for the architecture project and the Statement of Architecture Work against the proposed Business Architecture

Refine the proposed Business Architecture only if necessary

Conduct final cross-check of overall architecture against business goals; document rationale for building block decisions in the architecture document

Fully document each building block

Select standards for each of the building blocks, re-using as much as possible from the reference models selected from the Architecture Repository

Document rationale for building block decisions in the Architecture Definition Document

Prepare the business sections of the Architecture Definition Document

A skills matrix and set of job descriptions

Standards, rules, and guidelines showing working practices, legislation, financial measures

A management footprint

A detailed description of business functions and their information needs

A business footprint