Business Organization Chart

Definitions

Business Organization Chart (a.k.a., Org Chart)

the architecture work product that is typically produced during the business architecting activity that documents the organizational structure of customer organization’s business enterprise

Objectives

The objectives of the business organization chart are to document the customer organization’s business in terms of its:

• Existing organization.
• Rearchitected organization.

Benefits

The typical benefits of the business organization chart are:

• It clearly documents the business structure that may need to be reengineered.

Contents

The typical contents of the business organization chart are:

• Organization Charts
• Conclusion
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

The typical stakeholders of the business organization chart are:

• Producers:
  • Business Strategy Team
• Evaluators:
  • Strategy Inspection Team
  • Customer Organization, which inspects the content for correctness
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainer: Customer (Business) Organization
• Users:
  • Business engineering business strategy team, which uses the business organization chart during the rearchitecting of the customer organization.

Phases

• Initiation: Completed
• Construction: Maintained
• Delivery: Maintained
• Usage: Maintained
• Retirement: Archived

Preconditions

The business organization chart typically can be started if the following preconditions hold:

• The initiation phase is started.
• The business strategy team has been staffed and trained in business modeling.

Inputs

The typical inputs to the business organization chart include:

• Work products:
  • Glossary
  • Customer Analysis
  • Business Vision Statement
  • Business Object Model
  • Business Process Model
• Stakeholders:
  • Business Domain Experts

Guidelines

• This is a living document that is developed incrementally and iteratively in parallel with other documents.
• The business organization chart typically starts by modeling the original business and evolves until it models the newly architected business.
• A copy of the business organization chart for the original business is often archived so as to enable a clear before/after comparison.

Conventions

The business organization chart is typically constrained by the following conventions:

• Work Flow
• Content and Format Standard
• MS Word Template
• XML Template
• Inspection Checklist

Examples

• Example Business Organization Chart