Capability Description (CD)

Written on 01/14/2019
Patrik Hallén


A visual description of how operational capabilities or alternatively business functions are grouped in business capabilities. This description is strongly simplified and only contains capability objects in a hierarchy, but it can even be arranged in the flow.

Purpose

Capability description is used to illustrate how different operational capabilities or business functions integrate in a more extensive context (End-to-End).

Way of Working

  1. Put the business capabilities in the background.
  2. Place the operational capabilities or business functions in respective business function, preferably according to a logical sequence from left to right.
  3. Place the capability flow as the background for business capabilities.