Capability Modeling Elements

Capability Modeling is a key concept when designing enterprise architectures. The design of most enterprise architectures revolves around the capabilities that the enterprise must provide to solve a problem. To provide a capability, the architecture design might include the creation or updating of necessary resources. A capability deployment scheme is modeled by a capability configuration, which can be associated with the required resources. For more information, see the UPIA specification: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019099&aid=1

Capability Elements Mapping

RSA UPIA	MagicDraw UPDM 2
Actual Role	UPDM Actual Post
Capability strategicMission type	UPDM Capability Dependency to Use Case coming from a UPIA::StrategicMission Ecore documentation, key=type
Capability Configuration doctrine	UPDM CapabilityConfiguration Dependency to UPDM::HighLevelOperationalConcept
Capability Requirement	SysML Requirement
Capability Role isExternal resourceType value	Performer Ecore documentation, key=isExternal Ecore documentation, key=resourceType Ecore documentation, key=value
Capability Usage goal strategicMission	UML UseCase Dependency to UPDM::EnterpriseGoal Dependency to Use Case coming from a UPIA::StrategicMission
Effect	UML Opaque Behavior
Fielded Capability	UPDM Fielded Capability
Information resourceType value	UPDM ExchangeElement, exchangeElementKind set to "InformationElement" Ecore documentation, key=resourceType Ecore documentation, key=value
*Diagrams*
Class Diagram having Capability(s) and Goal(s) and/or Vision(s)	CV-1 Vision
Class Diagram having Capability(s) and Dependency(s)	CV-4 Capability Dependencies
Class Diagram having Capability(s)	CV-2 Capability Taxonomy