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Activity: Define Business Operations

If you are initiating significant business process and operations changes, this activity is very useful and may require serious effort. In other scenarios, this activity may be completed in an hour-long discussion or skipped entirely.

More detail: Purpose - Frequency - Steps

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Business Strategist
Customer
End User
Situational AssessmentBusiness Concept
Business Process AnalystFind Business Actors and Use CasesDefine Business OperationsStructure the Business Use Case Model
GlossaryBusiness Use Case RealizationBusiness Use CaseBusiness Use Case ModelBusiness Ops PlanBusiness Object ModelUse Case Model (Sketch)
Business DesignerDetail a Business Use Case
Business Modeling Guidelines (from Environment)
Software Architect
Business Process Analyst 		Business Strategist
Software Architecture Document (Sketch) 		Requirements AnalystExplore Software Support
Analysis Model (Sketch)

Purpose

To define how the business will operate. The team sets priorities for detailing business processes and redesign the organization. The Role: Business Designer and Role: Business Process Analyst design the organizational vision of the business, including key business patterns and organizational structures and responsibilities.

This activity includes identifying gaps between the existing operations and the envisioned future, as well as defining the project's approach to assimilating organizational and technological changes.

Frequency

The timing and number of iterations required to establish an acceptable operational approach varies greatly from project to project, depending on the extent of change and the organization's ability to assimilate it. This work begins during Inception.