Dynamic Process Management

The Dynamic Process Management (DPM) is an enterprise architecture methodology.

History

The DPM was formulated by Ray Blackman, over a number of years, throughout his career as a change management practitioner. The methodology was later codified and further developed during his time at Rule Financial. It was adopted by the Rule Financial business consulting divisions change management practice as the companies change management methodology of choice in 2006.

Ian Weavers had independently developed a Business Capability Services (BCS) methodology during his career in investment banking and latterly as an independent business consultant to capital markets. Ian, after joining Rule Financial mid 2007, incorporated the BCS into the DPM, with Ray, in early 2008.

The DPM has matured from its beginnings as a set of process reengineering techniques, into a change management process, and latterly into an enterprise architecture methodology.

DPM methodology

The DPM is a set of processes, methods, techniques and tools which can be applied in the development of an enterprise architecture.

There are three top level life cycle phases in the DPM, Change Preparation, Physical Delivery, and Value Delivery. The DPM has activities defined for the first and last, Change Preparation and Value Delivery, life cycle phases respectively. There are not activities defined for the Physical Delivery life cycle phase in the DPM. The Physical Delivery phase would be completed with a software engineering process (SEP) tailored to the sofware development parts of the solution life cycle. There are may to choose from, both structured and agile, like for example the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP).

When references are made to change management in the DPM it is in the sense of organizational change management not change management as it is understood in project management which is the control of scope creep.

DPM lifecycle

The three key DPM lifecycle phases are described below.

Change preparation

There are three key functions in the DPMs Change Preparation phase, Initiation, Visualization and Validation. There is a workflow of sequenced activities that flow from one function to the next. There are also a number of pervasive activities which are not strictly aligned to any one function and may be applied during the execution of any of the functions.

Initiation
Visualization
Validation
Physical delivery

The DPM does not specify how the physical delivery of a project should proceed. The DPMs main focus though is in the preparing the ground for a successful project delivery.

Value Delivery

The DPMs Value Delivery phase is concerned with the measurement of the project or programs business value realization.

DPM methods
FAT modeling

As a change preparation process, DPM™ is presented using a modelling technique known as F (functions) A (activities) T (tasks). FAT modelling is used throughout DPM™ to deconstruct and reconstruct target business processes. DPM™ uses FAT modelling for deconstructing business operations and delineating scope.

Business processes in their entirity, or their constituent parts, are the key constituent input analysis artifacts for FAT modelling. In the DPM™ a process is defined as "... a connected series of actions, the outcomes of which deliver value to a customer (internal or external)".

Functions
Activities
Tasks

Statistical analysis

DPM architectures
LAA

The Logical Applicaton Architecture (LAA).

SAA

The Solution Application Architecture (SAA).

Uses
Enterprise architecture
Change management
Business process reengineering

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