NSV-9 Technology and skills forecast table (UPDM - NAF aliases)
Creation
To create an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table:
• Right-click the
Architectural Description or
Service Description that is to own the NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table, point to New, point to Matrix/Table, point to NAF, and then click NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table.
When you open an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table, Modeler can generate it as HTML for viewing in your Internet browser, or generate it as a spreadsheet for viewing in Microsoft Excel. To specify how matrices and tables are opened for a model: in the Packages pane, right-click the Model, point to > , click Matrix/Table Generation Format, and then select HyperTextMarkupLanguage_HTML or Excel_XLS.
Each time you open an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table, Modeler generates the product using the latest data from the model.
Purpose
On an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table:
• Show
Capability,
Capability Configuration,
Competence,
Organization,
Physical Architecture,
Post,
Resource Artifact,
Responsibility,
Service Access, and
Software elements from the analyzed Packages.
• View elements that are related through Forecast relationships (as the source elements) to the shown elements.
• View the Forecast Span Literal elements that define the span of the shown Forecast relationships.
Elements Shown
The NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table shows the following elements:
• A row is created for each Capability, Capability Configuration, Competence, Organization, Physical Architecture, Post, Resource Artifact, Responsibility, Service Access and Software that is found in the analyzed Packages.
• When a row element is the target of a Forecast relationship:
◦ A column is created for each Forecast Span Literal that specifies the span of that Forecast relationship.
◦ The name of the Forecast relationship's source element is shown in that Forecast Span Literal column.
◦ When no span is defined for the Forecast relationship, a column named [Undefined] is created.
◦ The name of the Forecast relationship's source element is shown in that [Undefined] column.
 | • If a column has been created for Forecast Span Literal, that column is used for all Forecast relationships that use that Forecast Span Literal. Only one [Undefined] column can be created in the table. • If a column is created for a Forecast Span's Forecast Span Literal, columns are also created for all of that Forecast Span's Forecast Span Literal elements, irrespective of whether they are used or not. |
Analyzed Packages
By default, the NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table searches for Capability, Capability Configuration, Competence, Organization, Physical Architecture, Post, Resource Artifact, Responsibility, Service Access and Software elements that are contained within the Architectural Description or Service Description that owns the NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table.
To search for elements from other Architectural Description and Service Description packages:
• Right-click the NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table, point to Links, and then click Analyzed Packages. From the Links Editor, select the Architectural Description and Service Description packages from which you want to search for elements.
Example
In this example, the model is set up to generate tables and matrices as Excel spreadsheets. The Architectural Description that owns NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table1 contains Organization1 and Post1. An Architectural Description that is not included in the analyzed Packages contains Organization2 and Post2.
On an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Definition, these elements are related as shown below, with Forecast Span Literal1 defining the span of the Forecast that links Organization1 and Organization2.
Note that to define the span of a Forecast: right-click the Forecast, point to Links, and then click Span.
When the Excel spreadsheet is generated for NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table1, a row is created for Organization1 and Post1 because they are in the analyzed Packages.
From the table you can see the following:
• A Forecast relationship links Organization2 to Organization1. The span of this Forecast is not defined.
• A Forecast relationship links Post2 to Post1. The span of this Forecast is defined through Forecast Span Literal1.
The following sections provide information about how an NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast Table is used in the model.
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Creates or shows these UPDM elements
