Introduction to Business Modeling
Concepts
The purposes of business modeling are:
- To understand the structure and the dynamics of the organization in which
a system is to be deployed (the target organization).
- To understand current problems in the target organization and identify
improvement potentials.
- To ensure that customers, end users, and developers have a common
understanding of the target organization.
- To derive the system requirements needed to support the target
organization.
To achieve these goals, the business modeling discipline describes how to
develop a vision of the new target organization, and based on this vision define
the processes, roles, and responsibilities of that organization in a business
use-case model and a business object model.
Complementary to these models, the following artifacts are developed:
- Supplementary Business Specification
- Glossary
The business modeling discipline is related to other disciplines, as follows:
- The Requirements discipline uses business models as an
important input to understanding requirements on the system.
- The Analysis & Design discipline uses business entities
as an input to identifying entity classes in the design model.
- The Environment discipline develops and maintains
supporting artifacts, such as the Business-Modeling Guidelines.
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