Enterprise

Definition

Enterprise

the highest level endeavor, consisting of a collection of related programs that are managed as a single unit

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Enterprise is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Abstract
• Superclass: Endeavor
• Subclasses:
  • Corporation
  • Profit and Loss (P&L) Center
  • Business Unit

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of an Enterprise are to:

• Elimininate unnecessary redundancies (e.g., duplicate effort and costs) between related programs of projects.
• Ensure standardization (e.g., development process, technology, platforms, and legacy integration) across related programs.
• Improve reuse (e.g., of work products, developer training) across related programs.
• Improve effort, schedule, and cost estimation across related programs.
• Minimize development and maintainance costs across multiple related applications produced by multiple related programs.

Guidelines

• Enterprises are rarely modeled unless entprises produce standard methods.