Define Design Option
The purpose is to define the solution approach, identify opportunities to improve the business, allocate requirements across solution components, and present a design option that achieves the future state.
Guidelines/Tools and Techniques
The guidelines/tools and techniques used to create a Design Option.
Define a Design Option - Uses Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Document Analysis, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Mind Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Vendor Assessment and Workshops to specify a Design Option.
Design Options – Use the Future State description, Existing Solutions, traced Requirements and the Solution Scope as guidelines.
The relationships between these guidelines, tools, techniques and Design Options, are detailed in the BABOK under the Guidelines and Tools and Techniques sections of the Define Design Options task.
Workers
The people involved with defining design options.
The relationships between these roles and a Design Option Name, are detailed in the BABOK under the Stakeholders section of the Define Design Options task.