Artifact: Business Modeling Guidelines

The Business Modeling Guidelines document project-specific rules the team should follow when developing Artifact: Business Use Cases and Artifact: Business Object Model.

More detail: Purpose - Audience - Template

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Purpose

These guidelines document important modeling decisions and increase consistency among team members' work on a single project or work across multiple projects. Guidelines typically cover:

• Naming conventions
• Writing style for business use cases
• Content required when defining business entities
• Content required when defining business workers or roles

Other topics such as locally preferred patterns, stereotypes, etc. may be included, too.

Audience

The following roles use the Business Modeling Guidelines:

• The Role: Business Process Analyst and Role: Business Designer use the guidelines to capture modeling and style decisions for business level models. Once written, these roles use them as directions for subsequent work.
• Other roles such as Stakeholders, Requirements Analysts, and Testers may use the guidelines to understand how the models were formed or the style used in the documentation.