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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By : Bill Aronson
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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By: Bill Aronson

Overview of this book

Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources. Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Open Text Metastorm ProVision® 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

What is a methodology


Which parts of the organization must be modeled? What is the correct sequence? To what level of detail should the modeler go? There has to be a trade-off between too much detail and too little. These are the issues that a methodology is designed to solve. A methodology is a process. Therefore it is repeatable, consistent, and can be learned.

The logical methodology is to start with the goals of the organization, then work down to identify the products and services that support those goals, and finally examine the processes and elements that deliver those products and services. However, we do not recommend this approach unless there is very strong and unified support for modeling at a senior management level. The reason is that the achievement of goals is political and different factions will compete to push their own agendas.

In some organizations the order is reversed, with initiatives that model aspects of specific processes, where there is buy-in for a modeling approach...