Task: Review the Business Use-Case Model
This task defines when and how to conduct the review of a Business Use-Case Model and how to address review findings.
Disciplines: Business Modeling
Purpose
  • To formally verify that the results of business use-case modeling conform to the stakeholders' views of the business.
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        General Recommendations
        Purpose General recommendations for each review.

        A person acting as business-model reviewer has some essential knowledge of the business domain or the technology envisioned to automate the business. Another skill business-model reviewers need is detailed knowledge of the applied business engineering techniques.

        Recommended Review Meetings
        Purpose To define the scope and the goals of the review.
        To define the approaches used for each specific scope/goal combination. 

        Normally, you should divide the review into the following meetings:

        • A review of the entire business use-case model.
        • A review of the business use cases (for each use case), along with their diagrams. If the model is large, break this review into several meetings, possibly one per business use-case package.

        Even if you can review everything at the same meeting, you probably won't get approval of your conclusions the first time. Be prepared to carry out new reviews for each new version of the business use-case model. It is important to involve employees, domain experts, as well as members of the business-engineering team in the review, to make sure the model describes the business properly.

        Prepare Review Record and Document Defects
        Purpose To document the review results.
        To ensure that identified defects are documented. 

        Following each review meeting, the results of the meeting are documented in a Review Record. In addition, any defects are documented in accordance with the project's change management process.



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