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The Business Rules Metamodel ~ Background |
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- Developed originally as a GUIDE project deliverable
- Published in 1995; revised in 1997
- Widely-adopted (defacto) standard for the definition of a "business rule"
- Uses the Zachman Framework as a context
- specifically "row-3" (the I/S Perspective)
- The Business Rules Group (the model's original author) continues to evolve and
expand these definitions
- more information: www.evergreen.edu/businessRules/
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The Business Rules Group & the MDC |
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- The Business Rules Group (BRG) reviewed the MDC Business Rules metamodel at our
last working meeting (Aug. 1999).
- Our members agreed to provide a response to the MDC.
- Contact was made with Thomas Bergstraesser (Microsoft), who invited us to attend
today's meeting.
- objective: understand the format & timing of our response
- An invitation has been extended to the MDC to attend our next working meeting
- Orlando, FL, in conjunction with the WRAD conference
- February 2000
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Feedback and Initial Review |
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- Terry Moriarty (a BRG member) was asked by Microsoft to review the MDC Business
Rules submodel.
- Her independent response was provided to Microsoft/MDC and was used by the BRG
to prepare this response.
- We have begun to compile a point-by-point response to the MDC Business Rules
model (Review Draft 7/15/99).
- Some initial comments are provided here.
- The notation of the BRG metamodel is represented here in UML form for ease of
comparison.
- Our current work has developed a metamodel that covers several of the constructs
in the MDC Business Engineering Model (e.g., Goal, Objective, Mission, Vision, etc.).
- Our input on these constructs is also relevant.
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