This article is defining the concept of a "process" for the context of the Gaudi project, since this word is heavily overloaded and heavily used in the Gaudi articles. It also discusses the relationship of processes with organizations and the drive for process improvement.

This article describes the course System Architecture by the Center for Technical Training CTT[4]. Trainer is the author of this article Gerrit Muller. At this moment this course is only accessible for Philips Employees.

This book bundles the course descriptions of courses based on the Gaudi systems architecting material. The courses address systems architecting, stakeholders and requirements engineering.

This article describes the condensed version the course System Architecture by the Center for Technical Training CTT. Trainer is the author of this article Gerrit Muller. At this moment this course is only accessible for Philips Employees.

This module zooms in from the company scope to the architecting scope. The business is described by a simplified decomposition in four processes. The Product Creation Process is described and decomposed further in three processes. The architecting process is described in relation to the four business processes. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaud project. The Gaud project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaud documents are available at: http://www.extra.research.philips.com/natlab/sysarch/ version: 1 status: draft 24th March 2004 Contents 1 Process Decomposition of a Business 1 1.2 Process Decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 Process versus Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4 Value Chain and Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.5 Decomposition of the Customer Oriented Process . . . . . . . . . 5 1.6 Extended Process Decomposition; Generic Developments . . . . . 5 2 What is a Process? 7 2.2 What is a process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 The relation between Processes and Organizations . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Process Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 The Product Creation Process 12 3.2 The Context of the Product Creation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.3 Phases of the Product Creation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.4 Milestones and Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.5 Organization of the Product Creation Pr...

This chapter positions the CAFCR architecting methods realtive to other methods. The other methods originate in software architecting, system architecting and system engineering, and more general systems science. Some background is given of the IEEE 1471 standard that has proven to be to be a useful fundament for the CAFCR method.

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This book addresses the role of the system architect and the role of the system architecting process within the business: • What is the role and the task of the (system) architect? • How does the architect do his work? • What are the main activities of the architect? • How does the architect fit in the organization? • What kind of person is the architect? • How does architecting fit in the business? Note: this book is likely to be refactored in smaller books in the future. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaudí documents are available at:

This book bundles the course descriptions of courses based on the Gaudi systems architecting material. The courses address systems architecting, stakeholders and requirements engineering. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaudí documents are available at: