Development Process
Development of BRM V1.0
The primary research was performed using each Agency's Enterprise
Architecture documents. The information contained within these reports provides
a concise and thorough documentation of all the lines of business that a
particular agency performs.
Where the Enterprise Architecture reports were not available, the FEAPMO used
other reports or information that might describe an Agency's functions,
including Strategic Plans, Performance Reports, and Agency website.
The FEA-PMO used this detailed agency information to increase the granularity
of the Task Force model by identifying "Sub-functions" for the lines of
business. These lines of business and sub-functions were then normalized to
produce an exhaustive list of mutually exclusive functions performed by the
Federal Government.
Once a finite list Lines of Business and Sub-Functions was developed, work
began to assign definitions to each line of business and sub-function to ensure
that there was a common understanding by all who used the BRM. Additionally,
lines of business and sub-functions were mapped to the Agencies that performed
them as well as to the Agency's major IT initiatives.
Each of round of mappings illustrated holes in the model, and it was
sufficiently modified. Final revisions were made to the model and detailed
reports were prepared to send to agencies for validation and comments.
Development of BRM V2.0
The FEA-PMO received comments on version 1.0 of the model in the months following its release in July. Furthermore, in order to ensure
that all interested stakeholders were given an opportunity to comment, the
FEA-PMO held a formal comment period in December 2002 in which comments were requested from each Federal agency.
The FEA-PMO also spent considerable time aligning the BRM with other key management frameworks
in use throughout the federal Government. These two inputs - agency comments and the alignment efforts -
led to the development of a draft BRM V2.0 that was released for agency approval.
Validation Process
The Draft Version 2.0 of the BRM was released for agency comments in early March 2003,
with a request for comments on the BRM and on the mappings of proposed Lines of
Business to agencies. Agency comments were received from March
through April and were organized according to their area
(i.e. business model comments, agency mappings, etc). These
comments serve as the basis for a comprehensive response to comments document
released in unison with the release of the BRM Version 2.0.
During the month of March, the FEA-PMO analyzed all comments
regarding the business model and made changes to the model where appropriate.
Once the new version of the BRM was finalized, the data in FEAMS was updated to
reflect the changes in the new version of the BRM.
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