RACI and relationships in ARIS

Hi Rupesh,

if I got your question right and you are referring to the RASCI report in ARIS I can say that the relationships between functions and organizational units are assigned to specific types (R,A,S,C,I). Furthermore, ARIS default connections are assigned to these specific types:

R

• carries out
• accepts
• decides on

A

• is IT responsible for
• is technically responsible for

S

• is assigned to
• can be assigned to
• contributes to

C

• has consulting role in

I

• must be informed about
• must be informed on cancellation
• must inform about result of

If you have further questions on this topic just let me know.

Regards

Eva

Thanks for the good explanation Eva.

 

Regards,

Rupesh

Hi Eva,

I modelled a process with all the possible connection types( as above)  for a RASCI matrix and then used the report macro'Configurable relationship Analysis' written by someone in ARIS reports group. But it does not give me the complete RASCI matrix in Excel. The connection type 'carries ot', 'is IT responsible for' all shown as 'R'.

Any suggestions / help on that?

 

Thanks,

Deepa

 

Hi Deepa,

in ARIS standard the 'carries out' connection corresponds to "R" while 'is IT responsible for' corresponds to "A". In the report provided on ARIS Community by my(fantastic)self ;-), the connections are defined differently: both correspond to "R". If you want the above-mentioned connections to be shown with the letters "R" and "A" please use the ARIS standard report "Export RASCI chart".   Regards Eva

Thanks Eva. That explains.

Can you explain for your report what are the connections I must use to see 'R' 'A' 'C' 'I' in the output.

Thanks,

Deepa

Hi Deepa,

my report on ARIS community has the following connection assigments (for example):

R

• accepts
• carries out
• decides on
• is IT responsible for
• is responsible for
• is technically responsible for

C

• has consulting role in

S

• can support
• supports
• is assigned to

I

• has assigned
• must inform about result of
• must be informed on cancellation
• must be informed about

Regards

Eva

Thanks Eva,

Can I ask what is the reason for keeping it different from the original RASCI report? And why you didn't consider 'Accountable'.

 

Since I have found a right perosn for the report :) On another query on report- If I attach documents to different function and may be the same document is attached to different processes. Is there a way I can generate a report to find out which processes and / functions  impact / are linked  to a particular document?

Thanks,

Deepa

Hi Deepa,

We are talking about two different reports here: the RASCI Chart report on the one hand and the Configurable Network Analysis report on the other hand. The second report is not used for RASCI charts only. Please use the ARIS standard report with the connections listed above to create a RASCI chart.

If I understood correctly, you want to know which functions and processes are linked with the selected document. ARIS standard provides the "Process manual" report. However, this report only outputs documents used in processes. It does not indicate which processes are linked with documents. 

Regards

Eva

Hi Eva,

What is Configurable Network Analysis report used for?

Thanks,

Deepa

The "Configurable Network Analysis" report evaluates complex networks. It helps to understand who/ what is (indirectly) relevant for whom/ what. Please read my article, it describes the report in detail.

Regards

Eva

Hi Eva:

 

Thank you very much for your explanation. Greetings from Chile.

 

Nico

Hello

Sorry for asking my question more than a year after the last comment...

I see a discrepancy for the interpretation of  "decides on". 

The "Export RASCI chart" script strictly follows the conventions explained by Eva at the beginning of this thread, where "decides on" is a "R" (responsible for).

However, the Organisation/Function's matrix in the Publisher web site shows a "I" for this particular relation, which, I think, is erroneous.  I verified this in 7.1 and 7.2. 

Could you clarify please? 

Thanks, Thierry

 

HiThierry,

can you please email the database, the report and some information about the context to contact@ariscommunity.com so that our engineers can take a look at it?

Thank you for your support!

Regards

Eva Klein

Hi Eva  

The material has been submitted to the address you gave. Thanks for your very quick reaction ! 

Hi Eva,

if this is "only" a report than the association between the RACI terminology and ARIS relationships can be changed in this report?

Currently, I am working with a customer that deals with large engineering projects. There, "is technically responsible" (in the sense of supervises the task, is the one to ask for solutions during execution problems) is only rarely seen as being identical to "is accountable" (in the sense of ultimately signs off or is the owner of the given process instance).

I am not a native speaker, but from what I gather e.g. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix it seems rare to me that a person who is "only" technically responsible is seen as accountable.

Where does this association RASCI-ARIS-relationships you provided come from? Meaning is this a standard, recommendation...?

Then, if I want to implement RACI with ARIS modelling, wouldn't it be better to have the relationships also (re-)named that way instead of redefining an n:1 relationship between ARIS relationships and RACI as your explanation suggests?

Best regards,

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

the report is ARIS standard and defined that way, but you can customize it to suit your requirements. However, I recommend this only if you have some programming knowledge.

Regards

Eva

Hi Stefan  I share your view. At my site we have renamed "is technically responsible for" to "is accountable to". It's fairly simple to do using the Connection Types configuration.

Regards, Thierry

Hello Eva,

 

In you reply to Mr. Rupesh Sherestha on 2010/10/20 you write:  "... that the relationships between functions and organizational units are assigned to specific types (R,A,S,C,I)."

These connections are also available for objects like person type, position, internal person, organizational unit, etc.

My question. Are all these objects shown in the standard RACI matrix report available on the ARIS Business Publisher? As I would like to apply the following Function Allocation Diagram conventions:

Best Nico.

Hi Nico,

the connections are also available for the following object types:

• Person
• Position
• Person type
• System organizational unit type
• Organizational unit type
• Organizational unit
• Group
• Employee variable

This should also work in ARIS Business Publisher.

Regards

Eva

Hi Eva,

I encounter the following issue with my EPC: I have renamed the attribute "is technically responsible for" (type number 220) to "accountable for" in order to meet the relationships between functions and organizational units for the specific types (R,A,C,I). I have taken into account that renaming a connection type does not change the original mapping.

When opening the model in Aris Connect, the connection is present into the diagram (it connecting type: role to type: function), but in the RACI Matrix, no “A” for accountable appeared. I’m using Aris Connect 98.4.

Can your “(fantastic)self” please help mine :)

 

BR,

Martin