Issue 10589: Section 8.5 (bmm-ftf) Source: Unisys (Mr. David Bridgeland, david.bridgeland@unisys.com) Nature: Revision Severity: Minor Summary: An organization unit makes an assessment (of an influencer). There are four categories of assessments: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. So an organization unit "makes" an opportunity. The name of the association---makes---is awkward when the assessment is an opportunity, or a strength, weakness, or threat. "Appraises" is a much more natural term. Then an organizational unit appraises a strength and other organizational unit appraises an assessment. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: January 11, 2007: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 11 Jan 2007 15:22:10 -0500 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dave Bridgeland Company: Unisys Corporation mailFrom: david.bridgeland@unisys.com Notification: Yes Specification: BMM FAS Section: 8.5 FormalNumber: dtc/2006-08-01 Version: 1.0 RevisionDate: 8/7/2006 Page: 13, 16, 42, 48, 49, 96, Nature: Revision Severity: Minor HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Description An organization unit makes an assessment (of an influencer). There are four categories of assessments: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. So an organization unit "makes" an opportunity. The name of the association---makes---is awkward when the assessment is an opportunity, or a strength, weakness, or threat. "Appraises" is a much more natural term. Then an organizational unit appraises a strength and other organizational unit appraises an assessment. X-Originating-IP: [86.2.188.23] From: John Hall To: BMM FTF Subject: [BMM] Issue 10589 Organization Unit appraises Assessment Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:26:12 +0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Aug 2007 05:26:12.0704 (UTC) FILETIME=[1E971E00:01C7E546] David, Having thought some more about your proposal on this one, I think that 'Organization Unit makes Assessment' is better than 'Organization Unit appraises Assessment'. The SWOT categories are specializations of Assessment, so that would make them "Strength Assessment" (assessment as a strength), Weakness Assessment, etc. The org unit would be making an assessment that the impact of the influencer(s) indicated a weakness, rather than "making a weakness". I'd prefer not to change the fact type - but might want to bring out more clearly what we mean by the categories. Regards, John