Business Capability Analysis

The Business Capability Analysis pattern creates elements and diagrams that describe a hierarchy of activities in a visually compelling way with elements nested inside each other down to any level. The relationship between Capabilities and the applications that deliver the capability are also represented.

Figure 1. Shows a diagram with nested elements describing a hierarchy of  capabilities.

Figure 2. Shows two Trace relationships that indicate that a business Capability is implemented by two Components.
Discussion
The purpose of the pattern is to allow Enterprise and Business Architects and other stakeholders to create a hierarchical model of the capabilities of an organization in a visually compelling style. The capabilities can be related to other up and down process elements in the repository.

It is commonly used throughout the evolution of an enterprise and importantly when new initiatives are launched. The initiatives will either be initiated to improve or augment  an existing capability or to create a new capability. Either way a Capability model will help to visualize how the initiative will do some of following:
·	Increase Value
Protect Revenue and Reduce Cost
Ensure Compliance
Reduce Risk

The following is a list of some things you may want to do when working with this pattern.
·	Change the name of the diagram to suit the initiative.
Change the name of Capabilities to suite the initiative.
Change the colors used for the different levels of elements in the diagram.
Change the hierarchy of elements as required.

The following is a list of some of the next steps available when applying the pattern.
·	Trace relationships can be created between elements on the canvas and up-process elements such as goals and drivers and down-process elements such as User Stories Requirements, Services and Components.
·	High quality documentation can be generated automatically from the repository including a wall chart of the Capability Map using large format paper.
Reference
The following help topics will assist you learn about how to work with this pattern.
Capability Modeling
Business Capability Analysis
Capability Based Planning
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK)
Traceability Tools
Documentation

The following are some of the tools that will be helpful when working with this pattern.
Document Generator
The Document Generator is a powerful facility in Enterprise Architect that allows a Database Engineer or other stakeholder to create high quality corporate or technical documentation directly from the model, suitable for internal or external audiences. For more details see the Documentation help topic or the more general topic on Model Publishing.
Element Discussions
The Element Discussion facility is a fully featured collaboration tool allowing modelers and model viewers and reviewers to communicate with each other directly inside the repository. Modelers using the full client or occasional viewers using WebEA can both post and reply to discussions and communicate and engage in chat. For more details see the Element Discussions help topic.
Specification View
The Specification View can be used as a way of working with any element type in a spreadsheet or word process view. It is particularly useful when there are a large number of elements as is typically the case when describing a system of any appreciable size. For more details see the Specification View help topic.
Relationship Matrix
The Relationship Matrix provides a spreadsheet like view of two groups of elements and the relationships that exist between them. It can be a used as a powerful analysis mechanism to visually indicate how elements are related to each other and to discover which elements are missing relationships. For more details see the Relationship Matrix  help topic.
Traceability Window
The Traceability Window automatically displays the relationships that exist between Use Cases and other model elements including up-process and down-process elements. The traceability tree view can be conveniently expanded to see deeper relationships and elements displayed in the window can be located in all diagrams in which they appear. For more details see the Traceability Window  help topic.

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