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Business Scenario Builder

Capture a business problem as a structured scenario with environment, actors, objectives, and success measures so architecture work can address the right question.

Phase A, Architecture VisionDerived from TOGAF

Framing a business scenario: from a vague symptom to a scoped statement

Five steps run left to right, each joined by an arrow naming the precision it adds, promoting a vague symptom into a scoped scenario statement the architecture work can act on. A rising-precision axis tracks the journey and a chip on each step names its owner.

A scenario is the contract between the business and the architecture. Without it, every later phase is guesswork dressed as method, because nobody agreed the trigger, the actors or the outcome the work must deliver.

Framing a business scenario: from a vague symptom to a scoped statement A left-to-right chain of five panels joined by labelled arrows, over an axis labelled precision rises at every step, from a vague symptom to a scoped statement. Symptom (business): visibly broken or under-performing. Arrow add people to Stakeholders (architect): who is affected and who can act. Arrow add cause to Trigger (analyst): the event that made it visible now. Arrow add target to Outcome (business): the state needed after the change. Arrow compose to Scenario (architect): trigger, actors, action and outcome. The first and last panels are tinted blue as anchors, and a red note states the scenario is the contract between the business and the architecture. SymptomVisibly broken orunder-performingBusiness StakeholdersWho is affectedand who can actArchitect TriggerThe event that madeit visible nowAnalyst OutcomeThe state neededafter the changeBusiness ScenarioTrigger, actors,action, outcomeArchitect add people add cause add target compose Vague symptom Precision rises at every step Scoped statement The scenario is the contract between the business and the architecture.It pins the trigger, the actors and the outcome so every later phase has an agreed target rather than a guess.