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requires articulating a description of the story of how a business process works,

as the lighthearted baseball example above illustrates. Generating a scenario

requires that each activity be described and each object involved in the activity

be identified. A generic form that can be used to capture such information and

have it stored by a computer-based scenario generator tool is shown in

Exhibit 8.6. A sample of the database table that this form generates is shown in

Exhibit 8.7. This table is, in part, a relational database. The vertical axis represents

the list of activities. The horizontal axis includes information ...