Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish functions of the organisation at the highest level
- Examine organisational or jurisdictional documentation to establish its principal functions
- Identify programs, projects and supporting activities from reporting documentation, and allocate these to established functions
- Analyse relationship between programs, projects and supporting activities and functions to identify overlap, ambiguities and omissions
- Document and validate established functions, in accordance with organisational and industry standards
- Determine component activities and transactions of identified functions
- Review documentation of programs, projects and supporting activities allocated to established functions to develop a statement of all activities performed by the organisation, unit or jurisdiction using appropriate analysis methods
- Obtain information about recurring transactions and actions by consulting agents, and examine organisational and jurisdictional documentation, including records generated by the processes
- Analyse imminent changes to organisation, unit or jurisdiction’s business for impact on identified activities
- Document and review determined actions and transactions at activity level in preparation for validation, in accordance with industry standards
- Build a functional representation of the organisation
- Review and refine assembled documentation of transactions, activities and functions for completeness, accuracy and appropriateness of terminology
- Document combined functional analysis in accordance with industry standards
- Identify activities and functions, showing direct relationships, indirect relationships and anomalies, mapped to organisational structures
- Document findings on relationships between functions and structure to build a functional representation