Activity: Review the Business Analysis Model

Purpose To formally verify that the results of business analysis modeling conform to the stakeholders' views of the business.
Role: Technical Reviewer
Frequency: As required, typically once for each iteration that includes business analysis modeling activities.
Steps General Recommendations Recommended Review Meetings Prepare Review Record and Document Defects
Input Artifacts: Business Analysis Model Business Entity Business Event Business Glossary Business Rule Business System Business Use-Case Realization Business Worker Project Specific Guidelines	Resulting Artifacts: Review Record
Tool Mentors: Publishing Web-based Rational Rose Models Using Web Publisher
More Information: Checklist: Business Analysis Model Checklist: Business Entities Checklist: Business Rules Checklist: Business System Checklist: Business Use-Case Realization Checklist: Business Worker

Workflow Details:

Business Modeling
- Develop a Domain Model
- Refine Roles and Responsibilities

General Recommendations

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.

If the model is large, you will have to examine different aspects of the business analysis model at separate review meetings. The following meetings are recommended:

Prepare Review Record and Document Defects

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.