Operational View

[1] The operational viewpoint provides a means to describe what is needed in a solution-free or implementation-free way.

The DoDAF defines a set of products that act as mechanisms for visualizing, understanding, and assimilating the broad scope and complexities of an architecture description through graphic, tabular, or textual means.

The three views and their interrelationships driven – by common architecture data elements – provide the basis for deriving measures such as interoperability or performance, and for measuring the impact of the values of these metrics on operational mission and task effectiveness.

[2] The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) has defined a series of seven different types of Operational View products.

[1] State transitions in executable operational architectural models provide for descriptions of conditions that control the behavior of process events in responding to inputs and in producing outputs.

They are graphic representations of processes, human and system resources, and their used capacity over time during a simulation run.

Figure 4-23 is an example showing the results of a simulation run of human resource capacity.