Work in progress

• This list needed to be rationalised and link to report pages.
  • Decide if duplication is allow with question reported or re-phrased in another section
• Try use:
  • "Where" questions for location reports
  • "How much" questions for cost reports
  • "Who" for User Group reports
  • "How" for hierarchies
  • "When" for roadmaps or time matrix reports
  • "What" first, then "Which";
• Focus on the factsheet part of the question first, with views as sub-questions
• My leaning is to put the factsheet that provides the answer as the first part of the question but sometime this doesn't sound natural.
• If questions are phrased how people commonly ask, then it will be easier to turn this resource into a chatbot.
• The questions below are arranged by the factsheets involved in answering the question.
• Questions answered by using a built-in view are shown as sub-questions.
• Where I don't know how best to phrase a question, there may be an alternative phrasing as a sub-question, marked with [alternative].
• Check question list against:
  • How to Answer the Top Questions of Enterprise Architecture Stakeholders
  • Smart Enterprise Architecture Governance in an Agile World -24 Key Enterprise Architecture Views for the Financial Services Industry
  • Reshape your IT with 24 Key Enterprise Architecture Views - doesn't have questions.

Questions you can answer

The sections below show the questions you can answer using LeanIX reports.

• The questions are arranged by the factsheet type that is the focus of the question. For example
• Questions answered by a view are sub-points under the main question
• Questions answered by using a Tag view are marked with . Tags are unique to your LeanIX implementation.

User Groups

1. What user groups are part of, or interact with, our organisation?
   1. Which user groups are "internal" or "external" to our organisation?
2. How are user groups structured?
3. Where are an user groups located, how many and what applications do they use?

Business Capabilities

1. What business capabilities support our organisation?
2. How are business capabilities classified? For example: a,b,c
3. How are business capabilities structured?
4. Which applications support business capabilities?
   1. Which business capabilities are impacted when an application fails?
5. What is the IT cost of supporting business capabilities?

Processes

1. What processes does our organisation perform?
   1. Who are the stakeholders?
2. How are processes structured?
3. Which applications support processes?
   1. What processes are impacted when an application fails?
   2. Which applications are business critical in supporting a process?

Applications

1. What applications do we have?
   1. Who are the stakeholders?
   2. Who is responsible for an application?
2. How many applications do we have?
3. What applications support user groups?
   1. Which applications do "external" user groups use?
4. Which applications need investment or replacement?
5. When are applications planned to change?
   1. When will successor applications replace existing applications?
      
6. What applications are used by a user group to support a business capability?
7. What applications are used by a user group to perform a process?
   1. Who is impacted when an application fails? - (smart explorer)
   2. Which applications are business critical for a user group?
8. Where are applications used?
9. Which applications support business capabilities?
   1. Can applications supporting the same business capability be rationalised?
10. For a group of related functions, what is the overall driver for change, intent and roadmap?
11. For applications implementing a group of related functions, what is the target application, roadmap, and what is the status of the roadmap plan?
12. What applications are critical to support which business capabilities?
13. What applications are at risk due to obsolescent underlying IT components?
14. What is the health of applications and what action is required? (TIME: Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Enhance) based on functional and technical fitness survey and other inputs.
15. In which applications should we invest, which divest?
16. Where are applications hosted?
17. What applications are impacted by projects? - free draw, project roadmap with applications as children
18. Which projects impact applications? [alternative]
19. Does an application process any sensitive data, how is this data classified, where is it located?
20. What is the IT cost of operating applications?
21. What applications are used to support a business capability used to perform a process?
22. For a group of related functions, what applications implement these, what is there status and roadmap?
23. How does the application portfolio change over time (planned and proposed)?
24. What changes have occurred in the application portfolio since the last reporting period?
    1. applications added, retired, change in status, renamed, change in roadmap dates, change in intent, etc.
    2. resource classification change
    3. lifecycle date changes (new Active, new Phase-out, End-of-life)
25. How many applications are active or being phased out each month?
26. How many applications became active each year?

Data

1. What data objects do we use?
   1. Who are the stakeholders?
   2. What is the data classification (i.e. confidentiality)?
   3. What is the category of the data ("Master data", "Reference data", "Transactional data", "Metadata")?
2. How are data objects structured?
3. What applications manage or access data?
   1. What applications manage or access sensitive data?
4. Where is data stored?
   1. Is any sensitive data stored in other countries? i.e. Is there a sovereignty risk?
5. How does data flow between applications?

Interfaces

1. What interfaces do we use?
2. Which applications provide or consume interfaces?

Projects

1. What projects do we have?
2. When will a project start or end?
3. What user groups are impacted by projects because of the applications they change?
4. What business capabilities are impacted by projects because of the applications they change?
5. What processes are impacted by projects because of the applications they change?
6. Is the project budget on track?
7. Which projects provide the highest value at the lowest risk?

IT Components

1. What IT Components do we have?, what are their properties, and who manages them?
2. Where are IT Components located?
3. What technology implements an application?
4. How is the technology portfolio planned to evolve year by year?
   1. What is the technology roadmap?
   2. What projects are implementing the technology roadmap?
5. What are our technical standards (preferred product to perform a function)? IT Component landscape with resource classification view - not answering functional bit. Need resource classification between application and business capability
6. Which are standard technologies and can we reuse a solution?
7. What is the our technical standards (preferred product to perform a function)? IT Component landscape with resource classification view - not answering functional bit. Need resource classification between application and business capability
8. Is there opportunity to consolidate technologies?
9. How is an application hosted and how is this planned to evolve?
10. What is the planned lifecycle of an IT component

Technical Stack

1. What technology categories do we use to classify IT components?
2. How are technology categories structured?
3. What IT components are preferred to implement a technology category?

Providers

1. What providers do we use?
2. What IT components does a provider supply?
3. What is the risk of a provider?
4. Is there an opportunity to reduce the number of providers we deal with by changing technologies
5. What is the total IT spend by provider?
6. Which provider relationships need closer management?

Master Data describes the customers, products, parts, employees, etc. involved in the transactions. It is commonly referred to as Places (locations, geography, sites, etc.), Parties (persons, customers, suppliers, employees, etc.) and Things (products, items, material, vehicles, etc.).