1. Business processes: First requirements

How to approach the task: Production modelling

A business may host many processes. Some will lead directly to a finished product ready for distribution. These are the business’s primary processes. Others may supply primary processes with materials and components needed during their execution. These are the business’s subordinate processes.

When modelling primary production processes, five distinct segments invariably become apparent:

  • Communications | Groups of messages coming into the system that cause system activity, and corresponding messages going out.
  • Workflow | Defining jobs the system needs to get done, and calculating, causing and managing the actions needed to do them.
  • Manufacturing | Getting materials and making them into finished products ready for distribution.
  • Distribution | Posting finished products to places of subsequent production, distribution or consumption.
  • Improvement | Observing segments and implementing changes that improve them.

Of these five segments, manufacturing is the fundamental justification for the presence of the other four. This pattern of interdependence establishes manufacturing as the first segment of business processing to develop process requirements for.

Closer inspection of manufacturing segments reveals smaller parts operating in sequence. When modelling, these parts can be characterised as:

  • Getting materials
  • Forming primitive components
  • Assembling components into products
  • Compiling finished products
  • Controlling product quality

This sequence demonstrates that within the manufacturing segment, getting materials and forming them into primitive components is the first area of business processing to develop process requirements for. Thus, by approaching the task using a production model it is relatively straght forward to pinpoint where to start developing requirements for a business that produces products.

Can a production model be to applied to the VOA?

The VOA produces valuations involving a particular collection of process and associated actors, methods, materials and products. Facts demonstrating that the VOA is simply an instance of a valuation producing business. The VOA is therefore subject to the same profound organising forces as any producing business; And encounters the same fundamental kinds of actors, methods, materials and products as any other business that produces valuation products.

So the answer is yes.! A production model absolutely can be applied to the VOA. In fact, it is nothing less than sheer common sense to impose a production model onto the VOA business instance; And in practice, there is no more appropriate way to confidently determine where to start developing the VOA’s first and subsequent process requirments.

Applying a production model to the VOA

The application of a production model to the VOA occurs in the articles that follow. Those articles are structured according to the layout of the interactive diagram below. Specifically, lower articles build upon higher articles, and articles on the same line are complete sets.

This structure establishes an unbroken chain of explanation and reasoning that isolates the materials and primative components the VOA needs to respectively get and make first, and their fundamental requirements.


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PRODUCTION
Real Property Valuations
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CONTEXTS
Purposes Of Valuation
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DOMAIN
Local Gov. Finance
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National Gov. Finance
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DOMAIN
Housing Rent Protection
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Housing Rent Subsidy
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REALM
Public Valuation
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ARCHITECTURE
Information Requirements
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Post Author: NeoVO