C4 - Standard Processes
The C4 Standard Processes View specifies standard (e.g. doctrinal) operational activities and optionally traces them to the capabilities they support.
Concerns Addressed
- Doctrine Production.
- Operational Analysis.
Background
Some processes are standard across the whole enterprise, or even more than one enterprise. The C4 View specifies Standard Operational Activities that can be re-used across multiple logical architectures (e.g. in L4, Logical Activities).
Usage
- Specification of doctrine.
- Tracing capabilities to enduring tasks.
- Tracing capabilities to standard operational activities.
- Capability audit.
Representation
- Tabular.
- Tracing Diagram.
Detailed View Description
The C4 specifies the Standard Operational Activities, and the Enduring Tasks and Capabilities they support. It is created as part of the conceptual architecture (i.e. before the creation of supporting Logical views), and will consist of a library of pre- defined activities taken from Doctrine. Consequently, the Operational Activities in L4, Logical Activities, should, therefore, be specialisations of the Standard Operational Activities from the C4 View.
A C4 is usually shown in the form of a table, optionally listing the supported capabilities and enduring tasks, as shown in Figure 3-11
Fig 3-11
Key Elements and Their Relationships
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Meta-Model
The detailed meta-model and element list for C4, Standard Processes, is at paragraph 4.2.4.