Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 5. Business Modeling

Key Points

• Business modeling is a problem analysis technique especially suitable for the IS/IT environment.

• The business model is used to help define systems and their applications.

• A business use case model, consisting of actors and use cases, is a model of the intended functions of the business.

• A business object model describes the entities that deliver the functionality to realize the business use cases, and how these entities interact.

In the context of the information system/information technology (IS/IT) environment, the first problem to be solved has an even broader context than we described in Chapter 4. In this environment, business complexity abounds, and one typically needs to understand some of this complexity ...