Technology Strategy Team

Definition

Technology Strategy Team

a team that produces the technology strategy for the customer organization’s reengineered business enterprise

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

• Analyze Current Technology.
  Analyze the critical factors that will drive the new technology strategy.
• Produce Technology Strategy.
  Recommend the new technology strategy:
  • Produce the security policy.
  • Evaluate and select:
    • Technology on which to base future applications.
    • Technology vendors from which to obtain technology products and services.
    • Technology partners with which to partner.

A technology strategy team typically inherits all of the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

A technology strategy team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Technology Strategist,
  who leads the technology strategy team and develops the technology strategy.
• Security Analyst,
  who develops the security policy.
• Technical Writer,
  who produces and maintains the business strategy documents.

Tasks

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

• BusinessRequirements Engineering:
  • Technology Analysis
• BusinessArchitecting:
  • Technology Strategy Production:
    • Technology Evaluation And Selection
    • Technology Partner Selection
    • Technology Vendor Selection
    • Architecture Documentation

A technology strategy team typically inherits all of the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

A technology strategy team typically produces all or part of the following work products:

• BusinessRequirements Set:
  • Technology Needs Assessment
  • Technology Analysis
• BusinessArchitecture Set:
  • Partner Analysis
  • Technology Strategy
  • Vendor Product Analysis
• Security Set:
  • Security Policy

Guidelines

• This team primarily exists only during the business strategy phase.
• This team may be combined with the other strategy teams if only a minimal amount of strategy work is to be done.
• A technology strategy team typically inherits all of the common team guidelines from the team process component.