Role-based enablement architecture

The question it helps answer

Use the role-based enablement architecture to organise the reasoning behind this question: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? The working view makes roles, jobs, and proficiency visible so discussion can move from general opinion to a specific action or decision.

When to use it

Use the role-based enablement architecture when people working on enablement and learning are using different mental models for roles, jobs, and proficiency, and that difference is changing choices or coordination.

What it is

The role-based enablement architecture is a set of connected concepts for examining one situation from several necessary angles. Its core working elements are roles, jobs, proficiency, and modules. Those elements belong together because each changes how the others should be interpreted or acted on.

Core elements

Roles

Assign one accountable owner and distinguish final accountability from contributors, reviewers, and people who must be informed. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to jobs so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Jobs

Capture jobs only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to proficiency so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Proficiency

Capture proficiency only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to modules so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Modules

Capture modules only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to modalities so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Modalities

Capture modalities only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to practice so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Practice

Capture practice only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to coaching so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Coaching

Capture coaching only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to assessment so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Assessment

Capture assessment only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to reinforcement so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Reinforcement

Capture reinforcement only at the level needed to answer: How should a learning program map role-specific jobs to content, practice, support, and assessment? Use observable evidence, name any unresolved judgment, and state what action or choice this entry can change. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to ownership so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.

Ownership

Assign one accountable owner and distinguish final accountability from contributors, reviewers, and people who must be informed. Within the role-based enablement architecture, connect this entry to reinforcement so the relationship can be reviewed rather than inferred.