Define Future State

The purpose of Define Future State is to produce a future state description, determine business objectives and potential value to the organization.

Guidelines/Tools and Techniques

The guidelines/tools and techniques used to define and document the future state.

  • Define Future State - Uses Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria, Balanced Scorecards, Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Brainstorming, Business Capability Analysis, Business Cases, Business Model Canvas, Decision Analysis, Decision Modeling, Financial Analysis, Focus Groups, Functional Decomposition, Interviews, Lessons Learned, Metrics and KPIs, Mind Mapping, Organizational Modeling, Process Modeling, Prototyping, Scope Modeling, Surveys and Questionnaires, SWOT Analysis, Vendor Assessment and Workshop techniques to document a future state description including business objectives and potential value.

  • The Future State Description – Uses Business Constraints, the Current State Description, Metrics and Key Performance Indicators and the Organizational Strategy as guidelines.

The relationships between these guidelines, tools, techniques and the Future State Description are detailed in the BABOK under the Guidelines and Tools and Techniques sections of the Define Future State task.

Workers

The people involved with performing the Task Name task.

The relationships between these roles and the Future State Dewscription are detailed in the BABOK under the Stakeholders section of Define Future State task.