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SV-12 – Service Provision

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The SV-12 specifies configurations of resources that can deliver a service, and the levels of service that those resources can deliver in different environments.

Usage

The intended usage of the SV-12 includes:

  • Service implementation.
  • Resource audit.
  • Tracing business processes to the resources that support them.

Product Description

An SV-12a maps a resource (which may itself be constructed from other resources) to the services it can provide. SV-12a products are usually presented as a structural model (e.g. a UML composite structure), with tracing relationships to services. It is also be possible to present an SV-12a as a table, with services on one axis and resources on the other. Care should be taken with this approach, however, as it tends to hide any underlying structure the resources might have.

A given implementation may provide a different level of service depending on the environment in which is it used. The service attributes defined in SOV-1, Service Taxonomy, can be given values in an SV-12a and related to the environment under which those values are true.

Creating a Service Provision diagram

To create a Service Provision diagram:

  1. Click on Service Provision in the Action Artifact area, and then select Create New Diagram.
  2. Type the diagram name and press Enter.
  3. A blank diagram is created and you can start constructing the view.
  4. Reuse ServiceSpecification (recommended) through dragging and dropping them from the Model Explorer. ServiceSpecification are defined in SOV-1.
  5. Reuse resource types (i.e. ResourceArchitecture, System, CapabilityConfiguration, Organization, Person, Post, Responsibility, Project, NaturalResource, ResourceArtifact, Software, Technology).
  6. Create ProvideServiceLevel and/or RequiredServiceLevel through the tools under the diagram toolbar.
  7. Connect resource types to ServiceSpecifications with ProvideServices and RequiredServices.
  8. Connect ProvidedServiceLevel and RequiredServiceLevel with ProvideServices and RequiredServices connectors.

MODAF Example: Service Provision

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