Understand Guideline Template
 

This page describes and illustrates with an example the template used to present any EKD-CMM guideline available in this electronic guidebook. The description is given in the left part whereas the example is shown in the right part.

A single guideline template
 
 
Guideline Template 
 
Example 
 
Name of the guideline : It expresses a process intention 
Construct change process model  
Description of the guideline: It provides a summary of the content of the guideline This guideline provides two alternative manners to construct a change process model.
Body of the guideline : It tells how to achieve the intention by providing steps, choices, activities to be performed and the related models to be used.  

In the right side example, the guideline offers two alternative ways (choices) to achieve the intention of constructing a change process model.
Select your alternative  
 
Follow goal deployment strategy 

Current enterprise goals, requirements for the future and contextual forces driving the change are known. Stakeholders call for a guided process.
Follow participative strategy

Current enterprise goals and requirements for the future are not agreed upon. Therefore, a participative session allowing emergence, exchange and discussion of ideas is needed.
 
Situation : It precises when the guideline can be applied
There is a need to move the organisation from the current state to a future state
Product model : It refers to the EKD-CMM model used for the application of the guideline. In the right side example, the product model is the Enterprise goal model as the output of the guided process is a goal hierarchy called change process model.
Enterprise goal model 
 
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