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All rights reserved.  \nContents  \nIntroduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 3  \nCreating a BCD ........................................................................................................................................................... 3  \nStep 1.0 – Collect Materials.............................................................................................................................. 3  \nBest Practices.................................................................................................................................................... 3  \nStep 2.0 – Formulate Model.................................................................................................................................. 5  \nBest Practices.................................................................................................................................................... 5  \nStep 3.0 – Construct BCD ....................................................................................................................................... 6  \nSteps and Best Practices .............................................................................................................................. 6  \nStep 4.0 – Review and Maintain ......................................................................................................................... 7  \nPurpose................................................................................................................................................................ 7  \nWhat Does Success Look Like.................................................................................................................... 7  \nPG Public Services, LLC Business Context Diagrams 2  \nIntroduction  \nA business context diagram (BCD) is a one‐page diagram intended to convey the overall scope of an investment, including the impacted business processes, services, key stakeholders, and interfaces.  \nA BCD is used to communicate important high‐level information about an investment. A BCD is not intended to capture every detail about an investment. The intended audience for a BCD is an organization’s senior management, decision makers/approvers, or anyone who needs a quick overall picture of the investment.  \nAs an investment matures over time, the BCD evolves with it. At the outset of an investment, it is possible that only processes and/or stakeholders are known. However, as the investment matures, and additional information, such as capabilities, services, and interfaces becomes available, the diagram can be updated to reflect this.  \nCreating a BCD  \nFigure 1 Four Steps to Creating a BCD  \nThere are four basic steps to creating a BCD. The following sections describe each step of the process, its purpose and related best practices.  \nStep 1.0 – Collect Materials  \nThis is a basic but an important and time consuming step of the process. It is critical to collect all the latest written documentation that describes the investment. Typically, this involves documents that have been created to support the acquisition process for an organization, such as a preliminary mission needs statement (P‐MNS), mission needs statement (MNS), concept of operations (CONOPS), statement of work (SOW), Exhibit 300, systems requirements document (SRD), executive presentations, etc. Important resources to consider are data repositories that contain archives of business processes, services, capabilities, and data.  \nBest Practices  \nWithin each organization, there are many resources for acquiring information needed to create a BCD. In all cases architects should ask each group for any or all of the documents they might have regarding investments. 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