SUMMARY

SUMMARY

• You might need to model a business to understand its structure and dynamics, to ensure that all stakeholders have a common understanding of the organization, and to derive system requirements to support the organization.

• Software engineering techniques can be translated and used for business modeling.

• Depending on the character of the organization, as well as the context of the project, you may find yourself employing rather different scenarios of business modeling.

• Software requirements derive, in large part, from models of the business.

• Rational Software's design tools support business modeling.