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* Represents an actual person, org structure section, committee or working group within or external to the organization.  e.g.:  Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones.  Not:  process modeler, designer, client, solution architect, manager
 
* Represents an actual person, org structure section, committee or working group within or external to the organization.  e.g.:  Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones.  Not:  process modeler, designer, client, solution architect, manager
 
* Linking:  Actors are usually linked to Roles.
 
* Linking:  Actors are usually linked to Roles.
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* Naming:  A noun.  Should be named according to job title or departmental name within Active Directory and/or org chart if applicable.
  
 
==== Business Event ====
 
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* Represents an abstract role, not a personal name or defined organizational position, committee, title, rank or hierarchy within the organization.  e.g.:  process modeler, designer, client, solution architect.  Not:  Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones.
 
* Represents an abstract role, not a personal name or defined organizational position, committee, title, rank or hierarchy within the organization.  e.g.:  process modeler, designer, client, solution architect.  Not:  Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones.
 
* Roles are usually linked to actors and business functions and processes.
 
* Roles are usually linked to actors and business functions and processes.
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* Naming:  Preferably a noun, referring to the primary activity that the role performs.  Should be a compound noun to qualify it if it could have multiple meanings.  e.g.: claim form completer.
  
 
==== Business Service ====
 
==== Business Service ====

Revision as of 20:01, 19 September 2019

Application Data

  • Should, where possible, be linked to a business object.

Business Actor:

  • Represents an actual person, org structure section, committee or working group within or external to the organization. e.g.: Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones. Not: process modeler, designer, client, solution architect, manager
  • Linking: Actors are usually linked to Roles.
  • Naming: A noun. Should be named according to job title or departmental name within Active Directory and/or org chart if applicable.

Business Event

  • Naming: Should be a verb in the perfect tense, e.g: "claim received".

Business Function

A logical grouping of related business activity (processes, sub-functions, roles, business information, etc...) No flow or sequence is necessary.

  • Linking: Must (directly or indirectly) support and link to an established Business Capability
  • Linking: Should be associated with an enterprise requirement, strategic outcome, goal, and/or driver.
  • Naming convention: Should NOT use verb-noun naming, in order to not be confused with business processes.

Business Object

  • Naming: Business object names should be nouns.

Business Process

Something that is done/performed, that has a flow or sequence.

  • Linking: Should be related to a particular (superior) business function (e.g. an SSC Service)
  • Naming: Should name processes with verb-noun notation. "Do something to something". i.e.: Place Order

Business Role

  • Represents an abstract role, not a personal name or defined organizational position, committee, title, rank or hierarchy within the organization. e.g.: process modeler, designer, client, solution architect. Not: Senior Advisor, Director Operations, Senior Vice President, ESSARB, Senior Management Board, Treasury Board, NRCan, John Smith, Dr. Henry Jones.
  • Roles are usually linked to actors and business functions and processes.
  • Naming: Preferably a noun, referring to the primary activity that the role performs. Should be a compound noun to qualify it if it could have multiple meanings. e.g.: claim form completer.

Business Service

Something that is provided to an entity external to the business function.

  • Must link directly (or indirectly through another business service, interface or product) to a client of the related function for the service.
  • Naming: Should use verb-noun. May use an "ing" ending.

SSC Services

SSC Services are usually business functions, and should not be represented as ArchiMate business services.

  • Representation: Must be represented as a business function, with category of "client-facing service" or "supporting service"