Artifact: Business Modeling Guidelines

Business Modeling Guidelines	Describes the business modeling guidelines.
Role:	Business-Process Analyst
Enclosed in:	Software Development Plan
Template:	Word Template HTML Template
Purpose Brief Outline Timing Responsibility Tailoring Annotated Outline (hyperlinks into HTML template in a new window)

Input to Activities:

Detail a Business Use Case

Find Business Workers and Entities

Detail a Business Worker

Detail a Business Entity

Review the Business Use-Case Model

Review the Business Object Model

Find Business Actors and Use Cases

Structure the Business Use-Case Model

Launch Development Case

Compile Software Development Plan

Develop Business-Modeling Guidelines

Output from Activities:

Develop Business-Modeling Guidelines

Purpose

The purpose of the Business Modeling Guidelines is to describe how you should model business use cases, business workers, and business entities.

Brief Outline

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Scope

1.3 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations

1.4 References

1.5 Overview

2. General Business Use-Case Modeling Guidelines

3. How to Describe a Business Use Case

4. General Business Object Modeling Guidelines

5. How to Describe a Business Use-Case Realization

6. How to Describe a Business Worker

7. How to Describe a Business Entity

Timing

The Business Use-Case Modeling Guidelines are developed early in the Inception Phase.

Responsibility

Tailoring

Business Modeling guidelines are only needed when the project needs to formally model the business in order to build a new system. This occurs in cases where the business process is complex and modeling helps to improve understanding, or in cases where the business process in being re-designed concurrently with the design of the new system. The degree of business process re-design, or the complexity of the business process, will dictate how comprehensive the business modeling guidelines need to be.