How to prepare business case in architecture? what is business case in architecture?

 

A business case as the 'information necessary to allow the approval, authorization and policy-making bodies to review and make an informed decision on a project proposal. An appraisal of the project support.

This phase needs de-mystifying for those interested in bringing fresh projects into their business or setting out on their own. In order to get customers, process architects usually advance by networking, being invited to suggest, drafting proposals, and interviewing.

Building a business case for a model of architecture -Approach

How to make the business case for modeling is one of the topics that comes up time and again when talking to organizations that are assessing Server. It's a fair question, but oddly, the only literature I've found on making always talks in high-level terms, such as business case; "Improve alignment," "Understand the company," and so on. In making testable promises, it's pretty woolly, so it's not that productive in terms of convincing people to back up a modeling effort.

Now the obvious response is that for a good cause, estimates of the delivered value are likely to be incorrect. But to some degree, you would argue this for any business scenario.

factors:

Risk Reduction-Having a good view of the architecture provides many opportunities to decrease the possibility or effect of threats that can affect the company.

Operating cost reduction-Waste removal opportunities, whether rationalizing processes or reducing business process costs, are a key objective of modeli

Revenue Increase-Fresh opportunities that were not cost-effective before will become available by allowing enhanced responsiveness and reduced implementation costs; and sooner, so their benefits come soone

Improved decision-making with a better view of the architecture helps decisions to be made more simply and reliable.

Cultural Changes-The accomplishment of the above objectives also leads to happier staff, spouses and clients. This is (usually) agreed upon to be a good thing in itself.

Data collection-This is collecting the data to construct the model. It may be a variety of operations, from running a network discovery tool to an interview-based business function description.

Data rationalization-sometimes in many places the knowledge you use to build a model already exists-and they disagree. An effort should also be made to settle these disputes.

Communication and rollout-It takes an effort to get buy in, socialize the effort and explain how things will change to introduce a modeling technique to an organization.

Tooling-It typically takes a tool of some kind to manage a shared architecture model. So I'll explore this area briefly while trying to be as neutral as possible.

Overhead governance-The preservation of a shared model of architecture implies a degree of governance that needs overhead. So to understand this it is important for a believable business case.

Each of these cost and profit areas is necessarily high in order for the model to be tailored to the company and the problems it faces. To allow estimation for each of these groups, the next 2 posts will dig into the benefits in detail; after which the cost areas will get the same care.

Breaking down these areas will help with calculation, but it will still be challenging for some of the components. So I'm going to reference the excellent book "How to measure anything by Douglas Hubbard. This book has already gained popularity in the Open Group's Equal risk assessment system in one EA norm. I would strongly advise the interested reader to review the book of Hubbard, but I will use a few of his ideas;

Ask yourself to find a metric to quantify something: Why would I even care if this object changes? What changes do I expect to see? So it may be beneficial to improve customer loyalty, but how on earth can we quantify it?

Well, due to more sales leads coming from referrals, improved customer loyalty could be beneficial. How many sales leads come from suggestions can be calculated.