Business capability mapping and business architecture
The document discusses the challenges faced in IT project management, highlighting that many projects experience cost overruns and misalignment between business and IT due to frequent requirement changes and ineffective communication. It introduces capabilities-based enterprise transformation as a solution, emphasizing the importance of defining stable business capabilities to foster better alignment, reduce redundancy, and manage complexity. Overall, it advocates for a clearer understanding of business needs and improved collaboration between business and IT to optimize technology solutions.
Introduction to capabilities-based transformation and the importance of aligning business definitions with technology solutions.
Highlights issues like high rework percentages and urgent needs from business leading to technical debt in IT projects.
Discusses poor outcomes of large IT projects, with 80% of executives feeling that business and IT are misaligned, leading to overspending and project failures.
Examines the unsustainable IT project management model, including communication gaps and frequent requirement changes affecting project deliverables.
Defines business capabilities and processes, emphasizing the stable nature of capabilities compared to the volatility of business processes.
Explains how capability mapping identifies overlaps between IT and business areas, fostering a common language and reducing redundancies.
Describes how capability architecture aligns business strategies with platforms, data, and processes for improved performance and clarity.
Showcases benefits of using Capstera to align IT and business strategies, reduce complexity and costs, and improve enterprise value.
A call to action for initiating the transformation process within the organization.
The track recordof technology enablement is not
stellar
How do IT & Business Executives
feel about IT project success?1
% of IT projects
Rest
25%
75%
Doomed
from the
start
Not surprising when we look at large IT project (>$15M) outcomes2
Average cost overrun Average schedule
% of budget
overrun
% of project timeline
100%
45
45%
$
17% of large IT projects
go >200% over budget,
threatening the very
existence of the company
% of respondents
80%
Spend over half of
their time on rework
78%
Feel business and IT
are not aligned
>80%
Feel requirements do
not reflect business
needs
100%
7%
Average benefits
% of expectations
100%
Every additional year spent
on the project increases
cost overruns by an
average of 15%
Underlying causes of IT project failures2
>$15M IT projects
Other
13%
Execution
Unrealistic schedule,
25%
reactive planning
13%
Skills
Unaligned team,
lack of skills
29%
20%
1) Survey of 600 business & IT executives by Geneca
2) McKinsey-Oxford study on reference-class forecasting for IT projects (2010 dollars)
$$$
56%
Focus
Unclear
objectives/
business focus
Content
Shifting
requirements, tech
complexity
Capability architecture isthe glue between the
business strategy, platforms, data and processes
2 Strategy
1 Capabilities
• Easy to use capability management
• Rich semantics
• Performance tracking
• Capture current functionality
• Develop roadmap
Data
• Define the value chain
• Model value streams/stakeholders
• Associate process diagrams
• Mark up processes
• Uses lenses/heatmaps to analyze
Strategy
Capabilities
Processes
5 Processes
• Capture & communicate BuRST
• Translate the strategy into capabilityspecific goals w/ resource allocation
• Identify gaps & benchmark
competitive position
Requirements
6
Data
• Capture & classify business terms
• Inform the CDM, LDM, and PDM
• Map data to capabilities, value
streams, processes & requirements
Platforms
3 Platforms
(Products/Services,
Projects/Programs/Initiatives)
• Use capabilities to define platforms
• Align capability and platform goals
• Easily identify & manage overlaps
4 Requirements
XML interface with
related applications
• Efficiently capture platform requirements
• Quickly rationalize & prioritize by capability
• Translate into capability roadmaps with
traceability