Business Transition Plan

Definitions

Business Transition Plan

the architecture work product produced during business engineering that documents the customer organization’s plans for transitioning their current business enterprise based on the results of business engineering

Objectives

The typical objectives of the business transition plan are to document:

• The customer organization’s plans for transitioning their business.

Benefits

The typical benefits of the business transition plan are:

• TBD

Contents

The typical contents of the business transition plan are:

• Goals
• Responsibiliities
• Schedule
• Conclusion
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

The typical stakeholders of the business transition plan are:

• Producers:
  • Business Strategy Team
• Evaluators:
  • StrategyInspection Team
  • Customer Organization, which inspects the content for feasibility and appropriateness
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainer: Business Strategy Team
• Users:
  • Business engineering customer organization, which uses it during the transitioning of their business.

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 architecture team has been staffed and trained in business modeling.

Inputs

The typical inputs to the business transition plan include:

• Work Products:
  • Glossary
  • 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.

Conventions

The business transition plan is typically constrained by the following conventions:

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

Examples

• Example Business Transition Plan