A Powerful Business Description and Analysis Tool
AM is where:
- Concepts, Methods, and Software are designed and aligned
- Governance, Operations, and Systems interact
- Responsibility is front and centre
- Artificial Intelligence is is guided by business structure
- Business frameworks and methods are founded on business decisions
- Business is Change
Designed and Aligned
In assertion modeling the software, methodology, and concepts grew, and were refined, together. There is no disconnect; the pieces understand each other. No tool vendors bending some ideas into their current offerings. No method rules fed by a misunderstanding of the concepts.
Levels Interact
It is all business description and change. And they communicate and you had better know how. Information from systems informs governance. And operational changes inform systems change. And governance informs operations. And you had better know how the levels relate.
AM shows the how the information feedback works.
Responsibility
No more ‘We need, we should’. Who is charged with the decision, and who needs to know? That’s business.
An assertion is not defined until it has an authority. An assertion is not needed unless it informs another decision. An authority must be suitable informed to make a decision.
AI needs Real Context
With AI you had better understand what you are asking for. And your corporate executive better not be asking for code. If your intermediate language is freestyle English what is the focus? AI must be guided and AM is the guide.
Ask your favourite LLM to deliver in AM (it works).
Browse the AM and discover the gaps, correct the responsibilites,
Find the missing information. Beef it up. Decide what to automate. Then pass it to your favourite LLM. Try it out and then Vibe Model the AM. (it works)
Decisions Underpin Your Frameworks
Frameworks are Perspectives in AM. Understand the decisions, and name them with your terminology of choice. Pull out parts of the decision network to isolate your framework. And decide to change your assertion model to improve the framework perspective, knowing the implications.
And Customers make decisions too. Better model the information they use and how you might impact it.
Understand how information flows in AM.
Business is Change
Every decision is change.
In operations it occurs every minute or second, and follows a repeated pattern. In strategy, change is conceived and undertaken occasionally, has larger impact, and ultimately changes the patterns in operations.
It start with a thesis that balances the risk. As it advances the chances of success should be improving constantly. You better have a well informed decision, assigned, that shows that can show the advancement.
All in your AM.
Where to start
Architecture Repository
Assertionizer can take the place of a complicated knowlegebase.
Manage your deliverables as published Perspectives. And grow your knowledgbase project after project.
Requirements
Add assertions that are manual, and must be automated, to your Requirements Perspective and generate as a JIRA-ready requirements document.
Not just IT
Model the full depth and width of your business, by incorporating manual and automated assertions. And by capturing the ‘business of management‘ as well as the ‘business of operations‘.
Wireframes +
Use the Simulator in Assertionizer to show a mock-up of what a user might see. Complete with example data. Capture missing information needs before you start coding.
Benefit Realization
Make assertions on the expected contributions to your target state.
Update your assessment assertions as the project progresses. See the expectation of benefits increase (or not).
Implementations
Identify the environment that you expect an assertion to be implemented into for a project. And identify where integrations between environments must be included.
AM changes the way we describe our business! And that means that this AM description can be viewed, prototyped, and designed from many perspectives.
And with AM software (Assertionizer) you can replace your business architecture repository. All the information you need is in the AM. Just edit the assertions and generate the architecture perspectives.
Who would use it shows how AM would be used Business Analysts and Architects, Consultants and Auditors, and many more.
For a small organization without the resources to staff a full Enterprise Architecture Repository, Assertionizer offers a practical, workable, and powerful way to support a central, aligned business architecture.
Why you should use it
- Stop the multi-methodology wheel-spin
- Merge your organizational viewpoints/silos
- See the business from a whole new light
- Narrow the Business/IT gap
- Be explicit and clear
- Connect strategy tactics and operations
- Align information management and content management
- Identify reliable information
- Implement in chunks, knowing what is affected
- Establish accountabilities
- Do real business analysis
- Implementation and design co-exist
- Knowledgebase – Keep all your business description in one place with one method.
- Rationale – Keep your assumptions and reasons; to be updated as initiatives progress.
- Monitor your modeling initiative progress in a contribution diagram right in your model itself.
The Vision
Up to now there has not been a approach that is so atomic, that ties closely to business information, that incorporates information meaning, structure, authorities, and flows, all in the atomic business element.
Up to now there has not been an approach that has a simple enough mechanics that effort is available for understanding the business, not the methodology.
Up to now there has not been an approach that emphasizes the veracity and source of the information.
Up to now there has not been an approach that can be nimble enough to design and implement in a day.
Up to now there has not been an approach that can keep up with the direction the information industry is headed and has the same concepts and culture of constant change.
Up to now there has not been a way for design and implementation to co-exist.
But now there is !
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