Activity: Define Business Perspective
The purpose of this activity is to define the business level architectural views of the system, to define the Business Perspective.
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Purpose

Definition of the various business level architectural views supports the analysis of the business processes and other aspects, permitting optimizations to be discovered, along with a better understanding of the business. It also supports the linkage of system or technical level structures and decisions directly back to the business drivers.

Description

This workflow has the following goals:

  • Define the Business Scope & Context of the system; 
  • Define a Business Entity Model for the system;
  • Define a Business Process Model for the system;
  • Define a Business Logistics Model for the system;
  • Define a Business Roles Model for the system;
  • Optionally update:
    • The Architecture Glossary
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Staffing

These activities are best carried out by a small team staffed by cross-functional team members. Issues that are typically architecturally significant include data, process, locales and roles. The team should also include members with domain experience who can identify key abstractions, and ideally business modelers. The team should also have experience with model organization and layering. From the provided inputs, the team will need to be able to synthesize the models.

Usage
Usage Guidance

Recommended as mandatory for efforts aimed at redefining or improving the business model including data, processes, locations and roles aspects. This workflow is iterative in that, after the Business Scope and other first iteration work products are defined the perspective views are defined architecture is assessed, followed by another pass if required. This work should be limited to one or two iterations. The purpose is to determine scope and business–level architecture models, not to construct the system.

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Activity diagram: Define Business Perspective Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Refine Context & Scope Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Define Business Entity Model Define Business Process Model Define Business Locations Model Define Business Roles Model Assess the Architecture Scan ADs Define Architectural Decision

Activity detail diagram: Define Business Perspective Enterprise Architect Scan ADs Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Refine Context & Scope Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Define Architectural Decision Define Business Entity Model Define Business Process Model Define Business Locations Model Define Business Roles Model Assess the Architecture Enterprise Architect Architectural Decision Repository Scan ADs Architectural Decisions Summary Scan ADs Architecture Glossary Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Architecture Glossary Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Project Requirement Architecture Principles Refine Context & Scope Context and Objectives Refine Context & Scope Architecture Glossary Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Architecture Glossary Capture a Common Business Vocabulary Architectural Decision Repository Define Architectural Decision Architectural Decision Define Architectural Decision Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Model Repository Define Business Entity Model Business Entity Model Context and Objectives Define Business Entity Model Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Model Repository Define Business Process Model Context and Objectives Business Process Model Define Business Process Model Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Model Repository Define Business Locations Model Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Business Locations Model Define Business Locations Model Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Model Repository Define Business Roles Model Business Roles Model Define Business Roles Model Context and Objectives Architecture Glossary Business Roles Model Business Entity Model Business Process Model Business Locations Model Assess the Architecture Architecture Review Record Assess the Architecture
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