Business Scenarios

A business scenario ____________

• explains the link between an enterprise architecture proposal to business requirements, and demonstrates supporting and enabling the enterprise to achieve its business objectives.
• specifies the actions to be taken to develop a link between a business proposal and the existing architecture.
• details the scope and responsibility of enterprise organizations and management to enact a project that will enhance the profitability of the company.
• is a highly recommended document to be developed and presented to executives that links an enterprise architecture proposal to business requirements.

Which statement about business scenarios is true?

• Business Scenarios are statements at a specific time and should be updated to reflect significant changes.
• Business scenarios are generally about IT project impacts.
• Business scenarios are relevant mostly to big problems, but can be developed for short-term projects.
• Business scenarios can be characterized as use-cases.

Which statement about business scenario benefits is not true?

• Business Scenarios are necessary to estimate the ROI in solving a problem.
• Business scenarios address not only the problem at hand, but account for impacts in other organizations and elicits their input.
• Business scenarios define value in solving the problem.
• Business scenarios clarify potential solutions.

In the Preliminary Phase, the business scenario method can be used to ______

• Understand and review the organizational context for conducting and EA project.
• Discover and document business requirements.
• Articulate an Architecture Vision that responds to business requirements.
• Enhance the Design Iteration of the ADM cycle.

___________ is not a recommended way to develop a business scenario.

• Identifying the budget to determine financial constraints.
• Using SMART
• Identifying, documenting, and ranking the problem driving the scenario.
• Identifying human and computer actors.

Part of the overall business scenario method is identifying the technical environment of the scenario, documenting it in scenario models including value chains and capabilities, then identify the business environment.

• false
• true