Business Strategy Team
- Business Strategy Team
- any team that produces the
customer organization’s new
business strategy
As illustrated in the preceding figure, the Business Strategy Team method component
is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
- Type: Concrete
- Superclass: Strategy Team
- Subclasses:
The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Business Strategy Team are to:
- Analyze Current Business (Business Requirements Engineering).
Analyze the critical factors that will drive the new business strategy:
- Analyze the customer organization and its business enterprise.
- Analyze the market (including market trends) within which the business competes.
- Analyze the user organizations of the customer’s business.
- Architect New Business.
Recommend the new business strategy (vision and architecture):
- Recommend new business models with improved business processes.
- Recommend new organizational structures.
- Recommend, justify, and prioritize new applications and changes to existing applications.
A business strategy team typically inherits the
general team responsibilities from the
team method component.
A Business Strategy Team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:
- Business Strategist,
who leads the business strategy team, analyzes the
customer organization, analyzes the market, and produces the business vision.
- User Analyst,
who analyzes users and user organizations.
- Requirements Engineer,
who helps analyze the current business to produce the
business vision including requirements for the rearchitected business.
- Business Architect,
who rearchitects the business by creating new business
models, processes, organizational structures, and recommends new applications.
- Domain Expert (in the business domain and market),
who verifies the analysis and provides recommendations regarding the new business strategy.
- Customer Representative,
who helps produce the business vision.
- User Representative,
who analyzes the user organizations and helps produce the business vision.
- Technical Writer,
who produces and maintains the business strategy documents.
A Business Strategy Team typically performs the following team-specific strategic tasks
in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:
A business strategy team typically inherits the
common team tasks from the
team method component.
A Business Strategy Team typically may produce all or part of the following work products:
- This team primarily exists only during the
business strategy phase.
- This team may be combined with the other strategy teams
if only a minimal amount of strategy work is to be done.