The SV-9 identifies the technologies and skills required by the Entererprise over time. These are technologies and skills that can be reasonably forecast against the current state and expected improvements/trends. New technologies and skills will be tied to specific time periods, which can correlate against Enterprise Phases.
SV-9 provides a summary of the current and emerging technologies and skills that impact the Resources that constitute the Architecture. The SV-9 provides descriptions of relevant:
- Emerging and current technologies.
- Industry trends.
- Predictions (with associated confidence factors) of the availability and readiness of specific hardware and software products.
- Current and possible future skills (modelled using M3 Competence elements).
In addition to providing an inventory of trends, capabilities and products, the SV-9 also includes an assessment of the potential impact of these items on the enterprise (provided as text in the M3 Forecast element). Given the future-oriented nature of this product, forecasts are typically made in short, mid and long-term timeframes, such as six, 12 and 18-month intervals.
Usage
The intended usage of the SV-9 includes:
- Forecasting technology readiness against time.
- HR trends analysis.
- Recruitment planning.
- Planning technology insertion.
- Input to options analysis.
Product Description
An SV-9 summarises predictions about trends in technology and personnel skills, and is usually presented as a table, with forecasts categorised by periods of time (e.g. 6-month, 12-month, 18- month intervals). Architects will generally produce separate SV-9 products for technology and skills.
The specific time periods selected (and the trends being tracked) will usually correspond to Enterprise Phases. However where technology is fast-moving (e.g. CPU and Storage technology) then shorter periods may be required. The forecast includes a text summary of potential impacts on current architectures and thus influences the development of transition and target architectures.
If standards are an integral part of the technologies important to the evolution of a given architecture, then it may be convenient to combine SV-9 with the TV-2, Technical Standards Forecast.
Where applicable, the SV-9 may relate forecasts to those resources that are impacted by the technology changes – this is stored as plain text in the M3 “Forecast” element.
Creating a Technology & Skills Forecast table
To create a Technology & Skills Forecast table:
- Click on Technology & Skills Forecast in the Action Artifact area, and then select Create New Diagram.
- Type the diagram name and press Enter.
- This opens the table of Standards. Click on New Technology And Skills Forecasts above the table to create a new row.
- Enter the details of the forecast.
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