On business capabilities, functions and application features

On business capabilities, functions and application features

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  ONE SIMPLE WAYOF STRUCTURING BUILDING BLOCKS OF AN IT-ARCHITECTURE http://enklare.wordpress.comThe OSW is a tool for visualizing IT-architectures devised and designed by Jörgen Dahlberg Feature A feature is a part of the application's total functionality Component A component is a coherent piece of the application that can be installed. Application A named collection of features that is used for a specific purpose Realize Resource A resource can be a file, registry key, shortcut, or anything else that may be installed Realize Aggregate Business capability An expression of what we need to be able to do to achieve success Information System An IT asset that is comprised of hardware, software, user accounts, processes, and security controls. Business product A packaging of offerings that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need Support Software product Software that that can be offered on a market that target a specific value proposition Support Aggregate Aggregate .Net Namespace Class Method Software architecture Source Application architecture Product architecture Java Package Class Method LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE DEPENDENT The basic elements of the software architecture is language and implementation dependent and as such this has to be reconfigured per language
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  THIS DEFINITION OFBUSINESS CAPABILITIES http://enklare.wordpress.comThis capability definition is a tool for understanding business capabilities devised and designed by Jörgen Dahlberg Business capability An expression of what we need to be able to do to achieve success There seems to be as many ways of talking about capabilities as there are ways of putting a shoe together. To add to the confusion functions, processes and other concepts of enterprise architecture is widely used as capabilities. Here we refer to capabilities as the core skills that we must master as a social system. Skills or capabilities? • People have skills • Organizations have capabilities Why capabilities? Capabilities is a means to achieving better outcomes for the organization and its stakeholders Capability litmus test To figure out if the concept we have before us could be a capability we need some way of testing the concept. The easy way of doing this is to run through the steps below: 1. A capability gets better or worse every time you use it 2. A capability is something which by the way it is used can provide: • the same results in different ways in the same environment • different results in the same and different environments A capability can briefly be described by: • A name • A description (with emphasis on the expected value) • An environment (in the context we expect to find the ability) Capability principles • A capability can in some sort of detail be described by its constituent elements • A capability is an organizational skill that requires the will of a superior system to be used. Capability elements A capability does not own any other elements of the architecture. The capability has a reference to all the elements of the architecture that is needed to satisfy the “promise” of the capability. It could be said that: • a capability “aggregate” elements of the architecture • a capability is a configuration of elements of the architecture These are some of the areas of an architecture where a capability could aggregate elements from: • Culture • Strategy • People • Organization • Economy • Rules and Regulations • Process • Information • Application • Technology
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  SAMPLE BUSINESS CAPABILITIES http://enklare.wordpress.comThisSAMPLE is a tool for understanding business capabilities devised and designed by Jörgen Dahlberg Attract and retain customers Make buying easy Continuously customize and refine the sales channels Understand the data trail of the customer Rapid-response manufacturing Create optimal logistical operations Track down and react to trends RETAILER WITH MANUFACTURING Grow and scale with confidence <<GOAL>> Business capability An expression of what we need to be able to do to achieve success Each capability in it self is an area where we need to be of the highest excellence in. All of the capabilities taken together create a force stronger than the sum of each and every one of the capabilities. Relationships Each capability can be related to another capability by a force arrow. The direction of the arrow shows in which way the reinforcing power is flowing. Goal or capability? If you set out the force arrows and end up with capabilities that only have incoming arrows, then you probably have found a GOAL