Product Lifecycle Management

The management of organizational Products, and how these products are delivered by Business Services, Contracts, Business Processes, Knowledge Functions, etc. – in short the Proposition Model and it’s Capabilities – is often not as a capability of Enterprise Architecture. Because the Proposition Model, the Capability Map and the Service Delivery are essential for embedding agility, value management, etc. Enterprise Architects has developed the Product Lifecycle Support as a Capability, including supporting tools.

Problems and Solutions

Within the contemporary enterprise architecture approach, the Product Lifecycle Support is often not seen as a part of the capability of Enterprise Architecture. Because of this several thresholds for improvements, build-in agility, easier implementation, etc. will be met at later phases of the transition process. Enterprise Architects delivers an approach including supportive tools, for Product Lifecycle Management.

Tools to support Product Lifecycle Management

To support Product Lifecycle Management Enterprise Architects offers the following tools:

Advantages of the Enterprise Architects approach

1. Developing and maintaining the Capabilities
2. Developing and maintaining the Service Delivery Models
3. Advise concerning optimization of the Proposition
4. Advise concerning Services and Processes
5. Advise concerning Knowledge Function development and maintenance
6. Developing the Proposition Model
7. Generating Proposition Component Maintenance Apps
8. Advise concerning Generalization, Specialization, Differentiation and Integration of Proposition Components
9. Advise concerning Business Services and Business Processes
10. Advise concerning Knowledge Functions
11. Advise concerning Functional Knowledge Management
12. The SAFe™ Core Values are safeguarded and improved as follows
    • Alignment
    • Built-in Quality
    • Transparency
    • Program Execution