Analyzing Business Needs
The business need has to be studied to tease out certain characteristics. These are roughly summarized as follows:
The business process, or what actually goes on in the business
The business rules, or what is allowed to happen, and what isn't
The business objects, the actual things that exist in the business
Put together, these things describe the goings-on within the business and in the business function you're trying to model. Some organizations have these things written down as formal procedures, whereas in other scenarios people just get on and do things; the procedures only existing in people's knowledge.
Whichever is the case, start by studying the information that's there by asking questions and forming a picture ...
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