ArchiMate — Motivation: Drivers, Goals and Requirements
Why the architecture is being changed at all, in the layer most models skip. Stakeholders hold drivers, drivers influence goals, goals are realized by requirements, and requirements are realized by the things the other layers build — the only chain that connects a piece of software back to a reason for it.
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title "Why we are replacing the order platform"
layer motivation
stakeholder CEO "Chief executive"
stakeholder CFO "Chief financial officer"
stakeholder Ops "Head of operations"
driver Cost "Cost of order handling"
driver Comp "Competitive pressure"
driver Churn "Customer churn"
assessment Manual "60% of orders are keyed by hand"
goal Growth "Grow revenue 10% year on year"
goal Margin "Cut cost per order by a third"
outcome SameDay "Same-day order confirmation"
principle Once "Capture data once, at source"
requirement SelfServe "Customers place orders themselves"
requirement Realtime "Stock checked at capture time"
constraint Budget "No new licence spend before April"
CEO associated-with Growth
CFO associated-with Margin
Ops associated-with SameDay
Manual influences Cost
Cost influences Margin
Comp influences Growth
Churn influences Growth
SelfServe realizes Margin
SelfServe realizes SameDay
Realtime realizes SameDay
Once influences SelfServe
Budget influences SelfServe
SameDay realizes Growth