Activity: Maintain Business Rules

Purpose To determine what business rules to consider in the project. To give the business rules detailed definitions.
Steps Gather Sources Express the Rules Evaluate Your Results
Input Artifacts: Business Vision Business Use-Case Model Supplementary Business Specifications Business Glossary Business Object Model Business Architecture Document	Resulting Artifacts: Business Rules
Frequency: Once per iteration, with most work occurring in the inception iterations.
Worker: Business-Process Analyst

Workflow Details:

Core Workflow: Business Modeling

Assess Business Status

Identify Business Processes

Design Business Process Realizations

Develop Domain Model

Gather Sources

Determine what your sources have. Some business rules are imposed on you from laws and regulations, other might be company standards. Other business rules express the goals of what the business modeling effort is to achieve.

Express the Rules

Express the business rules using a rigorous and formal language, consider the audience to make sure they can be effectively communicated. For more on categories and styles for business rules, see Guidelines: Business Rules.

Evaluate Your Results

Check your results to verify that you have followed a consistent style when defining the rules and that they are not inconsistent in what they state.