Business Skills
To be able to subsequently check that each Capability is implemented by a suitable Business Skill, you must define the required business skills and functionalities, for each business function.
Accessing Business Skills
To access Business Skills:
1. From the Personnel navigation menu, select Constraints.
2. Click the Business Skills tab.
The list of Business Skills is displayed.
Creating a Business Skill
To create an Business Skill:
1. From the Personnel navigation menu, select Constraints.
The list of Business Skills appears.
2. Click the Business Skills tab.
3. Click New.
The new Business Skill appears in the list.
Properties of a Business Skill
The Characteristics property page of the business skill provides access to:
• its Owner, by default during creation of the business skill, the current enterprise.
• its Name,
• the text of its Description.
With HOPEX UAF a business skill is described by the following pages:
• the Structure page specifies a list of business skill held and the dependencies between them.
For more details on business skill diagrams, see Creating a Business Skill Diagram.• the Fulfillments page provides access to the list of architecture elements that implement the business skill.
For more details on business skill fulfillment, see Business Skill Fulfillment.• The Capability Usage page provides access to:
• the Owner section provides access to the Business Skill that use the skill described. For more details on the skills used, see Creating a business skill component in a diagram.
• the Business Capability section provides access to the capabilities that use the skill described. For more details on the skills used, see Describing a Capability.
• the Business Function section provides access to the Operational Performers that use the skill described. For more details on the skills used, see Describing Operational Performers.
Business Skill Fulfillment
To associate an organization with a business skill, you must create a business skill fulfillment.
To specify that a business skill is fulfilled by an organization:
1. Open the Fulfillments property page of the business skill that interests you.
2. Click New.
The creation window for a business skill realization opens.
3. Select Reusing an org-unit.
4. Select the organization that interests you and click OK.
The business skill fulfillment appears in the list with the name of the selected organization.
Creating a Business Skill Diagram
To create a business skill diagram:
1. In the list of Business Skill, click the Create a diagram 
icon related to the business skill of your choice.
icon related to the business skill of your choice. The diagram creation window opens.
To create a business skill component in a diagram, see Creating a business skill component in a diagram.
To define the dependencies of business skills, see Defining the business skill dependencies
Creating a business skill component in a diagram
The components represented in a business skill diagram are Business skills.
To add a sub-skill to the business skill diagram:
In the object inserting bar, click the Business Skill Component 
.Defining the business skill dependencies
You can create a dependency link between two business skills to specify that one business skill is required for the other in the context of a business skill.
To create dependency links between two business skills:
From the object inserting bar, click the Business skill dependency 
button and connect the source business component to the target business component. To display Capabilities, Capabilities maps and business skills, check option HOPEX Solutions > Business Process Analysis > Capability visibility is activated.