Checklist: Functional Area Analysis
This checklist helps ensure that a consistent and correct functional area analysis has been performed.
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Check Items
The business domains (also known as business competencies) that are germaine have been identified and described.
The major functional responsibilities of each domain have been identified and described.
Functional areas for each domain have been identified and described.

A functional area is a functional sub-division of a domain.  This does not necessarily equate to an organizational unit. 

Identify and describe the functional areas, leveraging the domain's major functional responsibilities.

The capabilities that the domain provides to others have been identified.
The capabilities that the domain needs from others have been identified.
The capabilities provided by each domain have been allocated to the domain's functional areas.
Look for affinity between the functional area's description and the purpose of each capability.
The capabilities needed by each domain have been allocated to the domain's functional areas.
Look for affinity with the functional area descriptions.
The provided and the needed capabilities have been organized into sets of cohesive functions (business function interfaces).
Relationships between the functional areas have been identified.

Relationships based on functional dependencies.

Functions and allocations of functions have been verified using business behavioral model analysis.
Use business use case analysis methods and/or business process definitions to ensure that the necessary functions have been identified, and that they have been allocated to appropriate functional areas.