The system is either an existing Office business process or a product to be delivered as the output of a project to support a business process. The owner of the system is a group of federal employees who must do the business process in support of their mission. This framework describes a particular system (including all its versions), not the work of IM, which is a particular business process to do projects to deliver systems (the Information Management Framework). In this generic example, the cells identify examples of information that should be documented for a complete system description (artifacts).
| System Data | System Functions | System Infrastructure | People | Schedules | Rationales | ||
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System Scope |
Mission Definition | Business Processes | System Locations | Fed users | System deliverables | Importance of System | System Scope |
| Business Models (System owner) | Semantic Model (Data architecture) | Functional Processes (Application architecture) | Infrastructure standards (Technology architecture) | Business Users | System usage schedules | System costs | Business Models (System owner) |
| Design & Relationships | E/R Diagrams, Data Models | Use Cases, Integration | Selected standards, tools, languages | User roles at each stage of process | Business Process cycle times | System efficiency | Design & Relationships |
| Technologies | Version Description Diagrams | Flowcharts, UML diagrams | Selected software & hardware | Specialized users | Performance optimization | Technical improvements | Technologies |
| Code & Components | System interfaces | Modules, Code functions | Languages, protocols, COTS products | Programmers, Engineers | System execution times | System Requirements | Code & Components |
| Production | Tested system & documents | System Admin. & Maintenance | System software & hardware | User training | System maintenance schedules | Mission cost effectiveness | Production |
| System Performance | Performance Measurements | Performance Monitoring | Manual & Automatic Programs | System Usage performance | End user response times | Feedback to strategy & budget | System Performance |
| System Data | System Functions | System Infrastructure | People | Schedules | Rationales |