MoV® Foundation — Lesson 2: Foundation Function Analysis, Information, Creativity, Options, and Workshops

Learning Objectives

• Explain the roles, information, criteria, dependencies, and decision points governing function analysis and function analysis.
• Implement or assess information gathering, creative options, and facilitation using controlled evidence and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate the condition where a basic control passes but creative options fails because information gathering data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ and select a proportionate corrective response.

Detailed Topics

• function analysis applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• function analysis applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• information gathering applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• creative options applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• facilitation applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces a cross-functional team applying Foundation to improve value by balancing benefits, costs, risks, stakeholder needs, and feasible options. The walkthrough connects frameworks, processes, tools, decisions, and evidence captured in the Foundation value profile, function model, option assessment, and implementation plan. It also tests the exception where a basic control passes but creative options fails because information gathering data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled PeopleCert-aligned exercise covering Foundation Function Analysis, Information, Creativity, Options, and Workshops and preserve the verified result in the Foundation value profile, function model, option assessment, and implementation plan.

1. Confirm scope, roles, criteria, prerequisites, information sources, dependencies, and acceptance conditions.
2. Execute the service, project, portfolio, risk, Lean, or operational workflow while recording decisions and evidence.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception using a controlled scenario.
4. Document findings, corrections, ownership, retest criteria, communication, and operational handover.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which role, process, objective, control, information source, or decision most strongly influences function analysis.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain service, project, quality, risk, operational, and business trade-offs.
• Determine how the Foundation value profile, function model, option assessment, and implementation plan should be approved, retained, reviewed, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected behavior first differs from the observed result. Check scope, criteria, ownership, data quality, process sequence, policy alignment, version compatibility, dependencies, status, and evidence separately. Treat “a basic control passes but creative options fails because information gathering data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ” as a hypothesis until records, interviews, configurations, calculations, and retest outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required roles, processes, criteria, controls, information, approvals, and dependencies are present.
• The Foundation value profile, function model, option assessment, and implementation plan connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, a boundary condition, dependency behavior, and the stated exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, communication, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Foundation Function Analysis, Information, Creativity, Options, and Workshops, explain the resulting service, project, quality, risk, or operational behavior, and defend the outcome through the Foundation value profile, function model, option assessment, and implementation plan.