| Define value: Follow an important business value stream to establish the main problems affecting outcomes and the conditions in which they arise. | Connect problems, responsibilities, baselines and benefit hypotheses, producing initial diagnostic and investment recommendations. | Provide business documents, process records and role confirmations, identifying the facts behind key judgments and remaining uncertainties. | Confirm the priority business problem and whether to fund further architecture design and data verification. |
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| Design capabilities: Define shared group capabilities and business differences, comparing paths to retain, integrate and evolve legacy systems. | Produce the target capability map, option comparisons and transition architecture, with stage dependencies, responsibilities and exit conditions. | Provide application assessments, business differences and decision records explaining constraints, costs and continuity effects. | Select the delivery path and stage scope, assigning shared capability ownership and necessary exceptions. |
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| Connect data: Start with specific uses to define the meaning, provenance, quality and applicability of critical objects. | Produce data product specifications and accountability arrangements, connecting definitions, interfaces, permissions and issue handling. | Provide end-to-end lineage samples, quality checks and trial feedback demonstrating that data issues can be detected and handled. | Determine whether data supports the target use and choose further governance, restricted use or business validation. |
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| Deliver in stages: Organize the first implementation around complete business outcomes, preserving production and business continuity. | Deliver usable business capabilities, joint acceptance materials and plans for migration, recovery, training and handover. | Provide normal and exceptional task records, reconciliation results and recovery tests, explaining how unresolved issues will be handled. | Decide whether to launch, defer or narrow scope, and specify regional and asset differences requiring validation before rollout. |
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| Manage value: Continue checking actual use, business outcomes and full costs against the original investment assumptions. | Produce value reviews and recommendations for product improvement or retirement, with a reviewable basis for the next allocation of resources. | Provide use and issue records, business outcomes and cost details, separating confirmed improvements, untested items and external effects. | Decide whether to invest further, adjust ownership or scope, or consolidate and retire low-value capabilities with continuity arrangements. |
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