Artifact:  Business Rules

Business Rules	Business Rules are declarations of policy or conditions that must be satisfied.
Role:	Business-Process Analyst
Optionality:	Can be excluded.
Template:	Word Template HTML Template
More Information:	Guidelines:Business Rules Checkpoints:Business Rules
Purpose Brief Outline Timing Responsibility Tailoring Annotated Outline (hyperlinks into HTML template in a new window)

Input to Activities: Define the Business Architecture Capture a Common Vocabulary Develop Vision

Output from Activities: Maintain Business Rules

Purpose

This document defines the business rules that are applicable to the business. If appropriate, the business rules can be divided into subject groups.

Brief Outline

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1.       Introduction         

    1.1     Purpose     

    1.2     Scope     

    1.3     References     

    1.4     Overview     

2.       Definitions

    2.1     <aBusinessRule>     

    2.2     <anotherBusinessRule>     

    2.3     <aGroupofBusinessRules>     

        2.3.1         <aGroupBusinessRule>           

        2.3.2         <anotherGroupBusinessRule>           

    2.4     <aSecondGroupOfBusinessRules>     

        2.4.1         <yetAnotherGroupBusinessRule>           

        2.4.2         <andAnotherGroupBusinessRule>    

Timing

The Business Rules is primarily developed during the inception phase.

Responsibility

A Role: Business-Process Analyst is responsible for the integrity of the Business Rules document, ensuring that:

• The Business Rules document is produced in a timely manner.
• It continuously is kept consistent with the results of development.

Tailoring

The contents of this artifact can instead be included in the Artifact: Supplementary Business Specification or, if no other artifacts of the Business Modeling discipline are performed, in the Artifact: Supplementary Specifications. 

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