Technology Strategist

Definition

Technology Strategist

the role that is played when a person produces the technology strategy for a customer organization’s business enterprise

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Technology Strategist is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Strategist
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Technology Strategist are to:

• Determine the customer organization’s technology capabilities and needs.
• Analyze available technology for relevancy to the customer organization.
• Develop the technology strategy for a customer's business.
• Provide technology vision and thought leadership.
• Advise customers on technology decisions.

Technology Strategist typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, technology strategists typically should have the following expertise, training, and experience:

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills that can be used to clarify and effectively document the technology strategy.
• Able to think abstractly and work at high-levels of abstraction.
• Deep knowledge of the customer’s overall business and the relevant application domain(s).
• Able to successfully manage the multiple concurrent issues, ambiguities, and contradictions that typically occur during strategy production.
• Able to collaborate well with client representatives, domain experts, managers, and architects.
• Flexible when confronted with evolving goals and technology.
• Have significant actual experience successfully producing technology strategies in similar endeavors.
• A bachelor’s degree in business administration or the equivalent.

Tasks

Technology strategists typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Requirements Engineering Tasks (of Business Requirements Engineering) :
  • Technology Analysis
• Architecting Tasks:
  • Technology Partner Selection
  • Technology Vendor Selection
  • Architecture Documentation
• Quality Engineering Tasks:
  • Quality Control - Business Strategy Evaluation
  • Quality Control - Technology Strategy Evaluation
  • Quality Control - Digital Branding Evaluation
  • Quality Control - Requirements Evaluation
  • Quality Control - Architecture Evaluation

Technology strategists typically inherit common role tasks from the role method component.

Teams

Technology Strategists typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Technology Strategy Team
• Evaluation Teams:
  • Strategy Evaluation Team
  • Requirements Evaluation Team
  • Architecture Evaluation Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, technology strategists typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Requirements Work Products:
  • Technology Analysis
• Architecture Work Products:
  • Technology Strategy
• Quality Work Products:
  • Inspection Report
  • Inspection Summary Report

Guidelines

• Use this role if you need to create a technology analysis or strategy and thus need to perform any of the technology strategy requirements engineering and/or architecting tasks.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles method component.