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The Agile Transformation use case supports various roles and stakeholders to drive enterprise transformation in alignment with articulated strategic intentions so that value is delivered to the enterprise. Alfabet's agile transformation use case promotes a lean and agile way of working in alignment with the SAFe framework.

New classes Value Stream, Value Stream Step, and Value Stream Group have been added to the new Agile Architecture section of the navigation panel. Value steams capture the relevant steps necessary to implement solutions that provide a continued flow of value to the enterprise. The defined steps are captured as value stream steps that are derived from business processes and can be tracked and evaluated based on indicators. Value streams allow the usefulness, advantage, or benefit of IT solutions to be articulated and measured in the business architecture. For example, a value stream could capture the non-monetary value of the successful delivery of a product or service or the benefits of access to up-to-date information to make better business decisions.

Classes Epic, Epic Group, Feature have been moved from the Investment Architecture section to the Agile Architecture section of the navigation panel. Users can capture epics to outline big picture goals and features to break down those goals into smaller, achievable chunks of functionality.

Continued development is in progress to expand this use case to enable the capture and analysis of operational and development value streams. The classes and functionalities relevant for the Agile Transformation use case can be accessed by users with the extension package Lean Portfolio Management.

Alfabet offers a best practice methodology to assess the maturity of business capabilities. A structured evaluation process allows you to measure the maturity and effectiveness of your organization's business capabilities and identify where performance falls short of expectations. The maturity assessment focuses on the areas of a business capability's Digitalization, Information, People, Processes, and Technology. By identifying maturity gaps, you can focus on the areas to prioritize and invest in order to achieve your enterprise's strategic objectives.

New standard time series evaluation types as well as time series periods have been introduced to assess and analyze the maturity of business capabilities over time. The Time Series Evaluation view is available in the content area of each business capability and allows users to capture the current as-is and desired to-be state of a business capability for relevant time series periods. Users can evaluate the following for each business capability:

• How mature the people, processes, technologies, and information can support and develop the business capability by digital means
• How mature the information is about the business capability to understand and explore new business opportunities
• How mature the group of people are in the organization who are dedicated to the practice of the business capability
• How mature the organization’s adoption and usage of the business capability’s processes, practices and resources is performed
• How mature the end-to-end applications currently support the business capability practices and methods.

A new Maturity Gap Analysis view shows the current and desired values for each area of evaluation and highlights the maturity gap between the as-is and to-be states for a business capability as well as its subordinate capabilities so that you can easily identify the maturity pain points for the business capability.

A new Business Capability Maturity Assessment spider chart visualizes the maturity assessment for the business capability and its subordinate business capabilities for an efficient visual analysis of the discrete dimensions of digitalization, information, people, processes, and technologies.

A new business question What are our business priorities? is available in the Business Relationship section of the navigation panel. This business question helps you to quickly identify business pain points on an enterprise level as well as where initiatives may be needed to close maturity gaps. The business question displays a nested matrix showing the top three levels of business capabilities in the business capability model. You can choose to highlight the business-critical business capabilities or assess the business capabilities based on market differentiators, mission criticality, and revenue contribution for a specified time period. You can also analyze the business capabilities based on maturity indicators in order to understand the maturity gap as well as evaluate indicators showing the as-is vs. to-be assessment of the business capabilities' digitalization, information, people, processes, and technology.

The Time Series Evaluation, Maturity Gap Analysis, and Business Capability Maturity Assessment views as well as the business question What are our business priorities? can be accessed by users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management.

The business question What is our technology usage? is available in the Business Relationship section of the navigation panel. It helps you to understand the use of components in different business segments.

The business question displays a bar chart showing the ten most-used components based on their use by applications. A doughnut chart is also available showing the percentage of technologies that enable a business capability. A filter field allows users to specify which level of business capabilities in the capability hierarchy to analyze. Finally, a data workbench displays all components in the repository that are not used by an application. Together these reports allow you to understand which technologies are business critical and where potential costs can be saved by eliminating unused technologies.

The business question can be accessed by users with the extension package IT Transformation - Enterprise.

Diagram types have been added for the following ArchiMate Viewpoint diagrams for Alfabet Enterprise.

The following Archimate diagram type can be accessed by users with the extension package IT Transformation - Enterprise.

• Outcome Realization Viewpoint visualizes applications, business processes, business capabilities, deployments, and physical servers.

The following Archimate diagram types can be accessed by users with the extension package Enterprise Architecture Management:

• Product Viewpoint visualizes business actors, market products, and market product groups.
• Service Viewpoint visualizes business actors, application components, information flows, and business services.

The following Archimate diagram types can be accessed by users with the extension package Strategic Portfolio Management

• Goal Realization Viewpoint visualizes demands, goals, objectives, and strategic themes.
• Motivation Viewpoint visualizes business actors, demands, visions, goals, objectives, and strategic themes.
• Stakeholder Viewpoint visualizes business actors, visions, goals, objectives, and strategic themes.
• Strategy Viewpoint visualizes business capabilities, visions, goals, objectives, and strategic themes.