MWT/TEBT is a casestudy in MWT Collaboration Architectures. As for all MWT Collaboration Architectures it defines everything that every collaborating individual has to share in order to collaborate for a particular endeavor. In the case the endeavor is a particular type of high-value, high-risk IT project called Technology-Enabled Business Transformation.

Collaboration Architectures can never be bought. The collaboration architecture is never what you think everybody shares it's always what they actually share.

However, through MWT Collaboration Architectures the process of building a deliniated shared understanding, an architecture of collaboration, can be great excelerated. Also, MWT Collaboration Architectures are intended to allow collaboration architectures to be re-usable. Remember a packaged collaboration architecture is not a delivery process. It doesn't tell individuals what to do - it merely provides a language for everybody involved to be able to communicate and negociate responsibilities.

The MWT/TEBT Collaboration Architecture does however contain tools which can assist in negociating responsibilities and provides best practise approaches to some areas of technology-enabled business transformation which would otherwise only be derived from many iterations of negociations, mistakes, and failures.

The Components of MWT/TEBT

MWT/TEBT contains many components, including the following:

• MWT/TEBT Collaboration Architecture Handbook
• TEBT Programme Planning Worksheet
• Delivery Roadmaps for the following software development project types:
  • Systems Integration and Custom Development Delivery Roadmap
  • Commericial-off-the-shelf Package Implementation Delivery Roadmap
  • Timeboxed Collaborative Application Development
• Detailed 'relationship between deliverables' artifacts for:
  • Business Transformation work stream
  • Testing work stream - Relationship between deliverables
  • Each phase of the project
• Supporting artifacts for the above project types:
• Test Strategy
• Test Management Plan (see Testing Relationship Between Deliverables sample)
• Environment Management Collaboration Architecture (see sample)
• Service-Oriented Organisation Collaboration Architecture
• For large programmes or enterprise-level implementations the following seperate cababilities can be implemented:
  • MWT/TEBT Enterprise Testing Capability
  • MWT/TEBT Enterprise Architecture Capability
  • MWT/TEBT Off-shore Development Capability

Additional components, including tools and guidelines, are also available. Implementation services are also available.