Moving the Goalposts for Data Models … Deliberately
A practitioner recently said this: “Even if we assume that a technical methodology might exist to generate a complete and correct data model from a set of articulated business rules / facts, in my...
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What’s the Concept?!
In a data modeling discussion forum, a practitioner recently asked: Has anyone seen an object super-type used to encompass both Party and System Component? Examples of Parties: people, organizations...
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What about Meta-Meta-Somethings?
Richard Welke, Professor and Director at Georgia State University, commented[1]: Any process improvement or change process is a metaprocess of the process it’s targeted at. And, of course, it in turn...
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Concept Models Are Simply Not Data Models
I certainly understand the need for data models, and that fact they should be coordinated/integrated with process models. Who would question that these days?! But to re-engineer business decisions or...
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What is a Concept Model?
A concept model organizes the business vocabulary needed to communicate consistently and thoroughly about the know-how of a problem domain. A concept model starts with a glossary of business terms and...
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A Data Model Relationship and its Cardinality Do Not Equal Business Rules!
I was reading some discussion about data models the other day and came across the following: “The relationships between entities define the rules about which entities relate to others, as well as the...
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Good News from Business Rules: #3 – Concept Models
When you show business people class diagrams or data models, you’re not really talking business. Class diagrams and data models are design artifacts that inevitably focus on how knowledge about...
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The Conversation of Three Baseball Umpires and How it Relates to Modeling
OMG released version 1.3 of SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules)[1] last month – comprehensively reorganized for approachability, but not changed.[2] Some thoughts …...
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Concept Model vs. Data Model
John Zachman says you can (and probably should) develop each of the following three kinds of artifacts to “excruciating level of detail”. 1. For the business management’s perspective (row 2), a...
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Integration Without Business Rules. Really?!
Consolidation is not the same thing as integration. What does it really take to integrate business practices? Let me illustrate with a thought experiment. Imagine that the U.S., Canada, Cuba,...
View ArticleMoving the Goalposts for Data Models … Deliberately
A practitioner recently said this: “Even if we assume that a technical methodology might exist to generate a complete and correct data model from a set of articulated business rules / facts, in my...
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What’s the Concept?!
In a data modeling discussion forum, a practitioner recently asked: Has anyone seen an object super-type used to encompass both Party and System Component? Examples of Parties: people, organizations...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What about Meta-Meta-Somethings?
Richard Welke, Professor and Director at Georgia State University, commented[1]: Any process improvement or change process is a metaprocess of the process it’s targeted at. And, of course, it in turn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Concept Models Are Simply Not Data Models
I certainly understand the need for data models, and that fact they should be coordinated/integrated with process models. Who would question that these days?! But to re-engineer business decisions or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is a Concept Model?
A concept model organizes the business vocabulary needed to communicate consistently and thoroughly about the know-how of a problem domain. A concept model starts with a glossary of business terms and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Data Model Relationship and its Cardinality Do Not Equal Business Rules!
I was reading some discussion about data models the other day and came across the following: “The relationships between entities define the rules about which entities relate to others, as well as the...
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Good News from Business Rules: #3 – Concept Models
When you show business people class diagrams or data models, you’re not really talking business. Class diagrams and data models are design artifacts that inevitably focus on how knowledge about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Conversation of Three Baseball Umpires and How it Relates to Modeling
OMG released version 1.3 of SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules)[1] last month – comprehensively reorganized for approachability, but not changed.[2] Some thoughts …...
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Concept Model vs. Data Model
John Zachman says you can (and probably should) develop each of the following three kinds of artifacts to “excruciating level of detail”. 1. For the business management’s perspective (row 2), a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Integration Without Business Rules. Really?!
Consolidation is not the same thing as integration. What does it really take to integrate business practices? Let me illustrate with a thought experiment. Imagine that the U.S., Canada, Cuba,...
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