I believe that utilizing existing frameworks, like APQC PCF, SCOR, etc., and reusing existing process models can alleviate some of the The Problems With Modeling that Robert McIlree writes about on his blog. As business architects, we definitely need to understand the goals and methodology of the projects we are working on and attempt to build architecture models as they are needed to support what the project is delivering right now. A high-level to low-level approach seems to support this, delivering models that help to define scope and early project deliverables like plans and functional hierarchies of processes and roles and then build on these with more detail, like swim-lane diagrams and organizational charts. I'm surely just getting my feet wet with this approach, but am hoping codify some of it so that others in my organization can architect and model in this value-added way.
Posted by outlawv at December 28, 2006 09:01 AM