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Traceability in BSIF

BSIF Provides Powerful End to End Traceability

Traceability should extend all the way from the Motivation that creates the need through to the Implementation of the Business Solution.
BSIF was designed to integrate the main notations that are in use and so BSIF has a robust Requirements Hierarchy built-in that understands the Notations that it supports.
This starts with tracing Business Needs to Business Solutions

 

Requirements are the key to Traceability.

Traceablility was always one to the key requirements clients wanted from EA. It was really all about ensuring that the solution actually acheived the objectives which sounds simple. However when you have 6 - 7 different models describing different features of the solution in diffrent notation we found it wasn't so easy after all.

By providing a Requirements Hierarchy that spans the notations BSIF hasbeen able to provide complete traceability that was simply not achievable before.

The addition of Quick Linking has made the process of creating traceability even easier and less prone to errors with the wrong connectors being used or the right ones in the wrong direction.

 Neds_to_Solution

Business Needs

These trace Business Drivers to Business Objectives
These start with the Drivers - forces that cause the business to change
 
They cause the business to define Goals - the target state for the business
 
The goals are then traced to Objectives - time based and measurable targets

Business Solutions

This is what we deliver as a Business Solution to meet the Business Needs
 
This starts with Capabilities - Business outcomes that we deliver in projects
Capabilities are then traced to the Features that the are made up of.
A single capability may be made up of many features
There are typically three key feature types and each has its own method of internal traceability which is shown in overview below with the  traceability relationships shown.
There is also traceability between the features types and the modeling elements within them -  but lets keep this simple! 
 
Products Organisational Structure Business Process
The products are modelled using the UML notation and interconnected by the BSIF requirements hierarchy.
Key requirements at this level are:
Functional
Rules (Business Rules)
Non Functional
They are implemented in the UML models:
Interaction (Use Case) 
Domain (Class) 
BSIF provides a number of elements that allow modelling of organisational
structures based on TOGAF with some extensions including:
Business Units
Business Roles
Positions
Stakeholders (Employees)
Locations
BSIF supports process modelling using BPMN with integration between BSIF Requirements and TOGAF business models.

Key integration exists between:

Rules (Business Rules)
Non functional requirements
product Organisational_Chart Process

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