Business Rules
Business Rules are declarations of policy or conditions that must be satisfied.
Worker: Business-Process Analyst
Optionality: Can be excluded. 
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More Information: Checkpoints: Business Rules
Guidelines: Business Rules

Input to Activities: Output from Activities:

Purpose To top of page

This document defines the business rules that are applicable to the business. If appropriate, the business rules can be divided into subject groups.

Brief Outline To top of page

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1.       Introduction         
    1.1     Purpose     
    1.2     Scope     
    1.3     References     
    1.4     Overview     
2.       Definitions
    2.1     <aBusinessRule>     
    2.2     <anotherBusinessRule>     
    2.3     <aGroupofBusinessRules>     
        2.3.1         <aGroupBusinessRule>           
        2.3.2         <anotherGroupBusinessRule>           
    2.4     <aSecondGroupOfBusinessRules>     
        2.4.1         <yetAnotherGroupBusinessRule>           
        2.4.2         <andAnotherGroupBusinessRule>    

Timing To top of page

The Business Rules is primarily developed during the inception phase.

Responsibility To top of page

A Worker: Business-Process Analyst is responsible for the integrity of the Business Rules document, ensuring that:

  • The Business Rules document is produced in a timely manner.
  • It continuously is kept consistent with the results of development.

Tailoring To top of page

The contents of this artifact can instead be included in the Artifact: Supplementary Business Specification or, if no other artifacts of the business modeling workflow is performed, in the Artifact: Supplementary Specifications

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