Program
A set of business or IT projects that share common goals and by successfully completing each project, fulfills a company strategy. (Also, see the Transition Domain).
Project
An activity with a planned start and planned completion with a common goal or goals and resource assignments to perform work towards goal completion according to a structured plan. (Also, see the Transition Domain).
Policy Domain
Objects within the Troux meta-model covering the policy concept. The Policy Domain contains the following objects:
A rule that applies to the business's use of IT architecture and IT components.
Enterprise Policy
A set of written guidelines for the business or IT operations.
Security Policy
Defines the set of security governance rules to be applied to a particular set of object types.
Policy Rule
Defines a single assessment to be run against the object of the type specified.
Security Policy Rule
Defines a single assessment to be run against the object of the type specified by the parent (owning) security policy.
An approved example or benchmark against which something is measured. A standard can refer to another standard. IT standards can be created by the IT industry, an open community, and internally within companies and agencies.
An example or benchmark that has not yet been approved as a standard.
Standards Category
Used to identify standards by logical classifications. Standards Categories may exist for approved standards or for standards candidates.
Process Domain
Objects within the Troux meta-model covering the business process concept. The Process Domain contains the following objects:
A high-level business entity in modeling terms. It is used to describe a particular set of responsibilities, privileges, actions, and activities of an organization.
A function provided by one or more IT elements.
Business Process
A series of actions that transforms a physical item or information from one state to another, or creates new items or information. A business process has the purpose of delivering capability that the business uses to run and manage operations.
A series of operations that transforms input to output by use of certain mechanisms under the control of some external system or higher-level process. Processes take an interval of time to execute and may contain sub-processes, or steps. Sub-processes (steps) consume input (resources) and emit output (product).
Information controlling or influencing the way in which the process converts its input to output. The control affects the mode of activities and may be parameters and rules consumed by mechanisms within the process that change the behavior of the process as it executes.
Information or raw materials that represent the starting point of a process. Input may originate outside the process flow or come from processes within a process flow.
Process Mechanism
People, roles, machines, resources, competence, software systems, or existing systems that affect how a process is executed.
Information or products produced by the process.
A process data object represents any artifact of a process. The process data object is part of the overall process flow when modeling business processes within Troux Architect.
A modeling notation that signifies a trigger for the beginning of a process flow in Troux Architect.
A modeling notation that signifies the end of a process flow within Troux Architect.
A modeling notation that identifies the control of process flows as they intersect within Troux Architect.
Product and Service Domain
Objects within the Troux meta-model covering the products and services created by the company or agency. The Product and Service Domain contains the following objects:
A collection of product or service offerings.
Generally something that a supplier delivers to a customer. It can be a product and/or a service.
Product
Something that is made or created by a person, machine, or natural process, especially something that is offered for sale. For modeling purposes, product is a high-level classification.
Either conceptual or material, or a combination of both. Represents the product portfolio of a company or agency. For modeling purposes, business products are subordinate to the higher-level classification of product.
A specific version or release of a general product classification.
A specific version or release of a business product.
An intangible product that is delivered by a company or agency for the benefit of a customer or consumer. For modeling purposes, a service is a high-level classification.
An intangible product that is delivered by a company or agency for the benefit of a customer or consumer. For modeling purposes, a business service is subordinate to the higher-level classification of service.
A design, engineering, or production method used to produce a product.
Used to build modular product structures. Work-in-process yields a modular structure. Modular structures are combined to form the final product.
A specific, important, or critical aspect of a product.
Represents the definition of terms that a service is being offered by a provider to a customer or consumer. Service-level agreements are specified within contracts (see Financial Domain).