M3 Playbook > Phase 2: Selection 2.9 Understand As-Is Business Processes 2.8 Develop a Decommission PLan

Objective:

Validate as-is processes to understand current state environment, existing challenges, and opportunities for improvement/standardization.

Phase 2 Guidance

Activities

1. Identify initial business process re-engineering strategy by understanding areas of change (C) 2. Validate as-is business processes with stakeholders to understand process flows, transaction volumes, workload, end user security roles, and enabling technology. If as-is business processes do not exist, develop a strategy to address training and change management gaps created by the lack of as-is business processes (C) 3. Report updates in governance meetings and Status Reports/Dashboards (C)

Inputs • Existing As-Is Process Documentation Outputs • Business Process Reengineering Strategy • Validated As-Is Process Maps

Stakeholders • Business Owner (C) • Functional Lead (C) • Functional Team (C) • Technical Lead/Solution Architect (C) • Technical SME (C) • Functional SME (C)

Best Practice

• Validate as-is processes and workloads to be able to understand the magnitude of change in the target state environment • Perform business process realignment activities in addition to traditional business process reengineering • Identify key functional process leads and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to drive process ownership and decision making • Leverage business use cases through the Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF) website