Data requirements for "What should we be focusing on?"

Business Capability

This business question requires the availability of at least 2 levels of business capabilities in your portfolio.

Level ID

The hierarchical number of the business capability in the business capability hierarchy. For example: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, etc.

Necessary for the visualization.

Name

The level ID and name of the business capability is displayed in the boxes of the heat map.

Business Relevance

Indicates how relevant the business capability is for the business:

• Mission Critical: The business capability is crucial to the organization's business and therefore essential to the accomplishment of the vision, goals and objectives.
• Business Evolving: The business capability responds to internal and external change and helps to support the necessary steps to transition the organization's business.
• Business Enabling: The business capability is currently core to the business of the organization and describes what currently exists in the business.
• Business Operating: The business capability is not unique to the business but does provide the support required to operate the business. Because it is not unique to the business, it does not constitute a core business capability.

Parent Business Capability

Every business capability on the second level of the hierarchy and lower should have a parent business capability defined. This enables the aggregation of applications that provide a lower-level business capability up to the second-level business capability.

Application

Name

The name of the application.

Start Date

The start date is the date when the application is actively used.

End Date

The end date is the date when the application is no longer used.

Describes the use of the application in the real word. This can be understood as the operational status of the application. Possible values are:

• Plan: The application is proposed to be used and still in the stages of planning and building.
• Active: The application is currently being used. The active period begins with the application's start date and stops with the end date.
• Retired: The application is no longer used.

The object state should be changed from Plan to Active once the application's start date is reached. It should be changed to Retired when the application's end data is reached.

Status

Specifies the approval status of an application and determines whether or not the application can be edited or deleted. Possible values are:

• Draft: The application has only mandatory data defined.
• Under Review: The application is documented and being reviewed. An application with this release status cannot be deleted.
• Approved: The application has been approved by the responsible stakeholders. An application cannot be deleted when it has an approved release status. An application with this release status cannot be deleted.
• Data imported: The data regarding this application has been imported from an external system. Additional changes may be required to improve the data quality. An application with this release status can be deleted.
• Trash: The application is no longer valid and can be deleted.

Recommendation

Required for business question

The strategic recommendation regarding future investment for the application. Possible values are:

• Tolerate: Invest in the application.
• Invest: Consider the application as a migration candidate.
• Migrate: Sundown the application.
• Eliminate: Discontinue the application.

Strategic Application

Indicates whether the application is strategic for the business.

Reference for Application provides Business Capability

Business Capability

Application