The business rule approach views an organization from three distinct perspectives:
Stakeholder |
Perspective |
Communication Vehicle Examples |
| Subject Matter Experts (SME) | Explain the organization’s business rules by examining its policies and procedures. The language used remains in the context of the business terms that are meaningful to the business community. | natural language statements in of business rules, policies and procedures. Diagrams commonly used by Information Specialists may also be used, to the degree that they communicate to business SMEs |
| Information Specialists | Transformation of the business’ statements into a context that is meaningful to conduct information analysis. The vocabulary used is dictated by the methodology used to conduct the information analysis, such as Information Engineering or Object-Oriented. | data and object class models, swim lanes, use cases, process hierarchy and flow diagrams, as well as the supporting metadata |
| Information System Developers | Transformation of the information resource perspective into designs, code and implemented information systems. The vocabulary used is dictated by the technologies in which the applications are built , such as C++, Visual Basic, Oracle8, COBOL | database design charts, object interaction diagrams, the state transition diagrams, object or application code, as well as the supporting metadata |