Technology Strategy

Definitions

Technology Strategy

the architecture document produced during business engineering that documents the customer organization’s strategy for using appropriate technologies on its current and future systems and applications

Classification

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

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Document
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of the Technology Strategy are to:

• Document the customer organization’s strategy for using appropriate technologies on its current and future systems and applications.
• Enable the customer organization to:
  • Have a consistent approach to new technologies.
  • Maximize its benefits from using these technologies.

Contents

The typical contents of the Technology Strategy are:

• Overview:
  • Major Technologies
• For each Technology X:
  • Description
  • Benefits (value proposition)
  • Risks
  • Trends
  • Vendors
  • Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

The typical stakeholders of the Technology Strategy are:

• Producers:
  • Architecture Team
• Evaluators:
  • Architecture Inspection Team
  • Customer Organization, which inspects the content for correctness
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainers:
  • Architecture Team
• Users:
  • Business engineering architecture team, which uses the technology strategy during the rearchitecting of the customer organization’s business.

Phases

• Business Strategy: Completed
• Business Optimization: Maintained
• Initiation: Optional
• Construction: Not Applicable
• Delivery: Not Applicable
• Usage: Not Applicable
• Retirement: Not Applicable

Preconditions

The Technology Strategy typically can be started if the following preconditions hold:

• The initiation phase is started.
• The architecture team has been staffed and trained in technology analysis.

Inputs

The typical inputs to the Technology Strategy include:

• Work Products:
  • Glossary
  • Customer Analysis
  • Market Analysis
  • User Analysis
  • Business Vision Statement
  • Business Object Model
• Stakeholders:
  • Business Domain Experts

Guidelines

• This is a living document that is developed incrementally and iteratively in parallel with other documents.

Conventions

Technology Strategy is typically constrained by the following conventions:

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

Examples

• Example Technology Strategy