Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 6. 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 IS/IT environment, and in the context of ISV applications that work with disparate systems and other applications, the first problem to be solved has an even broader context than we described in Chapter 5. In this environment business, system, and organizational ...