Model business processes/capabilities
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Tim Gaweco
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Richard
I think the core of IcePanel should still be on the C4 model and the underlying model. Business capabilities are very useful to know and their relation to the underlying IT artefacts from the model. For this, I would see the group feature as the simplest way to achieve this. Adding a system/app to the group and then creating a diagram of the capabilities (groups) with the elements displayed in the groups. This would require some additional features to groups to work fully
- Nested groups (to model level 1 and 2 business capabilities)
- Inheritance (so an app in L2 Accounts Receivable would be inherited in L1 Accounting)
- Group diagram (with drill down option) to allow easier visualisations.
This allows you to model/display capabilities and their realisations but also enriches the overall model with additional meta data (capabilities in this case) which you can then filter on. For instance, I can see for a capability, which systems I have in my model (and using tags I can see which market)
Jacob Shadbolt
Groups could be a nice way to achieve this, with the addition of nesting of groups.