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Motion Methodology




Motion is a Business Modeling Methodology developed by Microsoft, to represent how a business does or will operate.
It is still under development, and has not been released.

From the ''Tech Ed 2005 Europe Architecture'' pre-con:

"The Motion Methodology uses the concept of Business Capabilities to model a business. A Capability describes the what, not the how. A Capabilities Model abstracts structural information (capabilities and connections) separately from dynamic information (processes)"

Motion decomposes the whole business into capabilities on many levels of granularity ( level 1-3), where level 1 represents core business capabilities (eg. Warehousing), level 2 represents capability groups (eg. Manage Products/Orders) and level 3 represent the business capabilities (order products, track etc. ). Each business capability then has 80 attributes which describe it, such as who owns it, input and outputs, best practices and exceptions.


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