OV-5a Operational Activity Decomposition Tree
OV-5 describes the operations that are normally conducted in the course of achieving a mission or an operational activity. It describes capabilities, operational activities (or tasks), input and output (I/O) flows between activities, and I/O flows to/from activities that are outside the scope of the architecture.
The OV-5 analysis reports are generated with different chapters that assist in rapidly getting a synthesis of modeled information to aid in decision making. The displayed information can particularly help to:
• Clearly define and identify the responsible entities for the different operational activities, when coupled with the operational nodes of OV-2
• Reveal unnecessary and redundant operational activities
• Make decisions about adding, merging and omitting operational activities
• Define and identify problems, opportunities and operational activities and their interactions that require close examination
• Provide a necessary foundation for depicting activity sequencing and timing in OV-6 views
• Provide a clear picture of how operations are performed and thereby support the analysis and design of services and systems.
The OV-5a analysis report presents the different capabilities and operational activities of the architecture in a hierarchical structure.