An  Architecture Governance Committee is an organization of resources and people (persons and committees) who make up a body for the purpose of administering an Enterprise.

Enterprise stakeholders draw up the rules that govern the actions and conduct of an enterprise and ensure that these rules are followed.

An  Architecture Governance Committee includes sets of dedicated resources and activities that support interactions and decision-making among the stakeholders involved in architecting the Enterprise.

A  Business Capability is a conceptual Capability that benefits to Customers (internal or external) of the enterprise. It expresses an ability to produce Conceptual Outcome Events.

A  Business Capability is defined by its intended Enterprise Outcome Events and the conditions (Condition Property) under which the production of the Enterprise Outcome Events shall be proceeded.

The actual Condition Scale Values for a given Business Capability at different stages of Enterprise Initiatives is given by their exhibition (Exhibited Capability).

An  Enterprise is a macro Enduring Initiative that delivers added-value Products (goods & services) to its target  Customers.

It requires a formal organization of groups of people and resources to achieve its purposes.

An  Enterprise Stage is a past, current or future state of the Enterprise.

Each stage represents an initiative comprising a purposeful set of activities whose primary purpose is focused on achieving a set of clearly defined objectives that may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently require integrated team working under the direction of an Architecture Governance Committee.

A  Product is a state of  a Resource Asset that represents merchandises offered for sale, either goods (produced as the result of manufacturing) or services (some work done by a Business Agent  which produces Business Outcome Events that benefits another Business Agent).

 Products are defined by their unique Value Propositions.

A Project Portfolio gathers all the projects of a given Project Domain in the defined project state (Demands, Candidate Projects, Ongoing Projects).

In a Portfolio, Projects can be assessed and compared against several criteria:

- Projects Criteria: these are derived from projects information (e.g. costs) or from project qualitative assessment (e.g. strategic alignment level, business value level)

- Portfolio criteria: these are additional criteria which can be defined at portfolio level on top of the projects criteria (ex : score, priority, rank)

The project workflow can be actioned from the project portfolio lines.

A  Transformation Program is an Initiative that is a temporary, flexible organisation created to co-ordinate, direct and oversee the implementation of a set of related Projects and Tasks in order to deliver outcomes and benefits related to the organisation’s strategic objectives.

A programme is likely to have a lifespan of several years. During a programme lifecycle, projects are initiated, executed, and closed.  Programmes provide an umbrella under which these projects can be co-ordinated. The programme integrates the projects so that it can deliver an outcome greater than the sum of its parts.

Programs are defined upon a given domain (e.g. Business, Information Technology)

A program domain gathers all the projects managed from the same perspective in terms of portfolio management decisions. Project Portfolios are therefore also attached to programs; by default, one portfolio of each portfolio type is created when creating a new program.

A  Value Proposition is a distinctive Asset Property that outlines a set of specific benefits a Product (whether goods or services) delivers to its Customers, emphasizing how it satisfies their needs and offers value. It is essentially a promise made by the Enterprise to its target Customers that its Product will fit their need when performing their Job-to-be-done.

A  Value Proposition is a characteristic of a Products (a  Product Characteristic) and is defined by:

1) its Functional Value expressed as qualified and quantified  Business Capabilitys and their Business Outcome Events,

2) its Non Functional Value expressed by Condition Propertys.

An  Asset Portfolio is a Management System aimed at developing and maintaining in operational conditions a set of Mezzo Resource Operating Assets, delivering Resource Capabilitys required by Business Operations.

The purpose of  Asset Portfolios is efficiency: Managed Resource Assets must provide expected Resource Capabilitys in the best cost / performance ratio.

An  Assurance System is a Management System aimed at ensuring enterprise compliance, resilience, and risk mitigation against both internal and external Policys and threats. It encompasses processes, Directives and technologies that work in concert to validate enterprise adherence to policy requirements, industry standards, and internal policies while simultaneously bolstering the enterprise's ability to withstand and adapt to various challenges and disruptions.
ensuring enterprise compliance and resilience against internal and external constraints:

a. Regulation constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the law (See  Regulation Article).

b. Internal policies and rules constraints: they defined what is allowed and not allowed by the enterprise (see Business Policy).

c. Operational constraints: they maintain operational capacities of the company (maintain ability to produce, maintain quality, ensure product development , ability to hire, to train, etc, see Business Rule).

d. Architectural constraints: they guide design decisions and shape the overall structure of a system (see  Architecture principle).

An  Enterprise Initiative is a past, current or future state of the enterprise.

Each stage represents an initiative comprising a purposeful set of activities whose primary purpose is focused on achieving a set of clearly defined objectives that may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently require integrated team working under the direction of an Architecture Governance Committee.

A  Governance Event is any event that has an impact on the management and governance of an Enduring Initiative.

This includes the result of Assessments, Decisions, recorded Incidents, Drivers, etc.

A  Management System is a mezzo Enduring Initiative within an Enterprise, aimed at creating, maintaining, evaluating, evolving, and operating a collection of essential  Functional Architecture Assets of the Enterprise.

A  Management System may transcend organisational boundaries and consequently requires an integrated team working under the direction of a Management Initiative Committee.

A  Software System Environment is an operating context in which a Business Software System defines its interactions with its partners (Partner System) in the form of API connections (Software Connection).

It also represents End Users who interact with the system.