The purpose of this activity is to define the Logical level architectural views of the system under study.
Work Breakdown Structure
Purpose
Definition of the various Logical level architectural views supports the analysis of the processes, system
structures and other aspects, permitting optimizations to be discovered along with a better understanding of
the business and the supporting information technologies. It also provides for the linkage of Logical (and
Technical) level architectures and decisions directly back to the business level and the root drivers for the
architecture.
These activities are best carried out by a small team staffed by cross-functional team members with various technical
and business experts brought in as required. Issues that are typically architecturally significant include data,
process, locales and roles including the structure of these aspects. The team should also include members with domain
experience (business experts and technical experts) who can identify key abstractions, and ideally logical level 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 architecture efforts aimed at redefining or improving the logical system model
including data, processes, locations and roles aspects. This workflow is iterative, after each iteration is defined the
architecture is assessed, followed by another pass if required. This work should be limited to two or three
iterations. The purpose is to define the logical level architecture models, not to construct the system.
