Project: EAKAT

Class: Step

Parent Class(es): 

  1. Calender
  2. Change_Management
  3. Documented_Item
  4. Export_Items
  5. Identified_Item
  6. Item_With_Assumptions
  7. Item_With_Risks

Instances:

  • None

Subclasses:

  • None

Steps provide a temporal grouping of projects for a particular roadmap into these windows. In this way a project portfolio can be generated by viewing all projects within a step for all roadmaps for a given fiscal planning window.

Attribute Definitions
Name Documentation Type Values Allowed Number Allowed Assumed Value
Description 

A Documented Item is an item that requires descriptive text above and beyond what the reader may gain from looking at the other attributes individually.

 
String VTYPE   0:1   
Projects 

These are all of the projects that are part of this step in the Road Map.

 
Instance VTYPE Project  0:*   
Assumptions 

These are all of the assumptions upon which the validitiy of this item is based.

 
Instance VTYPE Assumption  0:*   
End_Day 

This is the day that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Start_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item starts.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Risks 

These are all the risks for this item.

 
Instance VTYPE Risk  0:*   
Start_Day 

This is the day that the calender starts for this item.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Step_for_Roadmaps 

These are all of the Road Maps for which this is a step.

 
Instance VTYPE Road_Map  0:*   
End_Year 

This is the year that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Name 

This is an item that readers can identify for one another by referring to a single word, or phrase.

 
String VTYPE   1:1   
End_Month 

This is the month that the calender for this item ends.

 
Integer VTYPE   0:1   
Attributes
Name Documentation Type Value
Item_Source 

This is the source for the information in this item.

 
Instance 
 
Aliases 

These are all of the other names by which this item goes.

 
Instance 
Phase
 
Modeling Value 

This is value of including this item in the Enterprise Architecture.

 
String 
Companies typically break up long, multi-year efforts into segments that match their fiscal planning windows, such as quarters or years. Steps help organize projects in to these windows in order to help string together projects in meaningful ways that generally work towards a business vision.
 
Examples 

These are examples of instances of this class.

 
String 
Third Quarter of 2004