04b Key Terminology B-E Flashcards
Explain the term :
Baseline
A specification that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon, that thereafter serves as the basis for further development or change and that can be changed only through formal change control procedures or a type of procedure such as configuration management.
Explain the term :
Building Block
Represents a (potentially re-usable) component of business, IT, or architectural capability that can be combined with other building blocks to deliver architectures and solutions.
Building blocks can be defined at various levels of detail, depending on what stage of architecture development has been reached. For instance, at an early stage, a building block can simply consist of a name or an outline description. Later on, a building block may be decomposed into multiple supporting building blocks and may be accompanied by a full specification.
Building blocks can relate to ‘architectures’ or ‘solutions’.
Explain the term :
Business Architecture
A description of the structure and interaction between the
- business strategy,
- organization,
- functions,
- business processes, and
- information needs.
Explain the term :
Business Governance
Concerned with ensuring that the business processes and policies (and their operation) deliver the business outcomes and adhere to relevant business regulation.
Explain the term :
Capability
An ability that an organization, person, or system possesses.
Capabilities are typically expressed in general and high-level terms and typically require a combination of
- organization,
- people,
- processes, and
- technology
to achieve; for example, marketing, customer contact, or outbound telemarketing.
Explain the term :
Concerns
The key interests that are crucially important to the stakeholders in a system, and determine the acceptability of the system.
Concerns may pertain to any aspect of the system’s
- functioning,
- development, or
- operation,
including considerations such as
- performance,
- reliability,
- security,
- distribution, and
- evolvability.
Explain the term :
Constraint
An external factor that prevents an organization from pursuing particular approaches to meet its goals.
Explain the term :
Data Architecture
A description of the structure and interaction of the enterprise’s
- major types and sources of data,
- logical data assets,
- physical data assets, and
- data management resources.
Explain the term :
Deliverable
An architectural work product that is contractually specified and in turn formally reviewed, agreed, and signed off by the stakeholders.
Deliverables represent the output of projects and those deliverables that are in documentation form will typically be archived at completion of a project, or transitioned into an Architecture Repository as a reference model, standard, or snapshot of the Architecture Landscape at a point in time.
Explain the term :
Enterprise
The highest level (typically) of description of an organization and typically covers all missions and functions. An enterprise will often span multiple organizations.
Explain the term :
Enterprise Continuum
A categorization mechanism useful for classifying architecture and solution artifacts, both internal and external to the Architecture Repository, as they evolve from generic Foundation Architectures to Organization-Specific Architectures.
