Strategy Evaluation Team

Definition

Strategy Evaluation Team

the team that evaluates the deliverable strategy requirements and architecture work products and the process used to produce them

Classification

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

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Evaluation Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Strategy Evaluation Team are to:

• Evaluate the strategy work products produced by the:
  • Digital Branding Team
  • Business Strategy Team
  • Technology Strategy Team

The strategy evaluation team typically inherits the common team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

The strategy evaluation team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the strategy work products for technical quality.
• Project Manager, who evaluates the strategy work products for impact on schedule and cost.
• Independent Business Architect, who evaluates the strategy work products for the implementability of the business requirements and the quality of the business architecture.
• Independent Business Strategist
• Independent Digital Brand Strategist
• Independent Domain Expert
• Test Engineer
• Requirements Engineer, who evaluates the strategy work products for the quality of the business requirements.
• System Architect, who
• Process Engineer, who evaluates the strategy work products for conformance to the associated standards and evaluation checklists.
• Quality Engineer, who evaluates the strategy work products for quality and conformance to the relevant conventions.
• Technical Writer, who acts as scribe at the evaluation meeting, summarizes the evaluation team’s findings in the evaluation summary report, and delivers the report to the strategy teams.

Tasks

The strategy evaluation team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Quality Control – Digital Branding Evaluation
  Evaluate the branding strategy work products:
  • Customer Brand Analysis
  • Competitor Brand Analysis
  • Digital Brand Board
  • Digital Brand Description Document
  • Digital Brand Prototypes
  • Digital Brand Communication Plan
• Quality Control – Business Strategy Evaluation
  Evaluate the business strategy work products:
  • Customer Stakeholder Profile,
  • Customer Analysis,
  • Competitor Profile,
  • Market Analysis,
  • User Profile,
  • User/Task Matrix,
  • User Analysis,
  • Business Vision Statement,
  • Glossary,
  • Business Object Model
  • Business Process Model
  • Business Organization Chart
  • Application Business Case
  • Application Strategy
  • Relationship Strategy
  • Business Architecture Document
  • Business Transition Plan
  • Reuse Strategy
• Quality Control – Technology Strategy Evaluation
  Evaluate the technology strategy work products:
  • Technology Analysis,
  • Technology Strategy
  • Security Policy

The strategy evaluation team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

The strategy evaluation team typically produces all or part of the following quality engineering work products:

• Evaluation Report, which documents an individual evaluator’s findings.
• Evaluation Summary Report, which summarizes the finding of the entire evaluation team.

Guidelines

• Evaluations should not devolve into walkthroughs. The work products should stand on their own.
• To the extent practical, the developers of a work product should:
  • Not be the only evaluators of it.
  • Also informally inspect it prior to the evaluation.
• A strategy evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.