Government Reference Model

Welcome to the Government Reference Model Charter     Purpose The purpose of the Government Reference Model Team is to develop a reference model for business architecture in government to give these organizations a coherent starting point for strategic understanding and actions and to aid inter-organization collaboration.   Scope 1. Scope is initially focused on developing a government-wide reference model and then quickly moving to parallel activity to build out any differences for specific industry subsectors. This approach enables maximum value to be delivered from the Government Reference Model Building Workshop in Ottawa, Canada, and can subsequently be iterated as required. 2. Later iterations of development may bring in additional government entities that were not initially addressed due to lack of qualified participants. (Defense, Space) 3. Create mappings of capabilities, value streams, organization and stakeholders sufficient to provide a baseline or starting point for organizational business architecture efforts. 4. Identify approaches organizations can take when adopting the model, including likely permutations or customizations. 5. Focus on government-specific business architecture reference model content while engaging with and incorporating cross-industry reference model content form the Common Reference Model team. 6. Government in the context of this group covers various functions of exercising authority over and providing goods and services for a political unit in support of a population. It covers the creation and administration of legislation, public protection and enforcement, care of natural resources, assistance and safeguarding critical infrastructure, and many other services needed to achieve the mission of the government entity.       Goals   1. Expedite government adoption and proliferation of business architecture through a reference model. 2. Enhance the utility of the BIZBOK® Guide 3. Publish readily consumable reference model content for the government that can be adapted and customized by members. 4. Extend the core capabilities of the business architecture practitioner by adding the ability to consume, integrate and leverage the reference business architecture model to create organization-specific models. 5. Develop a business architecture community of experts on business architecture models for enabling and/or enhancing business architecture practices in government. 6. Engage and inform Business Architecture Guild members on the topic of business architecture for government organizations.