Artifact: Business Use-Case Model
 Business Use-Case Model |
The business use-case model is a model of the business intended functions. The business use-case model is used as an essential input to identify roles and deliverables in the organization. |
| UML representation: | Model, stereotyped as «business use-case model». |
| Worker: | Business-Process Analyst |
| Optionality: | This model is developed if you need to clarify the business context of the system to be built. Otherwise it can be excluded. |
| Sample Reports: | Business Use-Case Model Survey |
| More information: | Guideline: Business Use-Case Model |
Purpose 
The following people use the business use-case model:
- The customer to approve that you understand the business context before you to continue to system development.
- The architect to identify architecturally significant behavior that should be automated.
- The system analysts to better understand the context of the system.
- The manager to plan and follow up the business modeling effort and subsequent software development.
- People outside the project but within the organization, executives and steering committees, to obtain an insight into what has been done.
Properties
Property Name |
Brief Description |
UML Representation |
| Introduction | A textual description that serves as a brief introduction to the model. | Tagged value, of type "short text". |
| Survey Description | A
textual description that contains information not reflected by the rest of the business
use-case model, including: · typical sequences in which the business use cases are employed by users; · functionality not handled by the business use-case model. |
Tagged value, of type "formatted text". |
| Business Use-Case Packages | The packages in the model, representing a hierarchy. | Owned via the association "represents", or recursively via the aggregation "owns". |
| Business Use Cases | The business use cases in the model, owned by the packages. | Owned recursively via the aggregation "owns". |
| Business Actors | The business actors in the model, owned by the packages. | - " - |
| Relationships | The relationships in the model, owned by the packages. | - " - |
| Diagrams | The diagrams in the model, owned by the packages. | - " - |
Timing
The business use-case model is created during inception and early elaboration.
Responsibility
A business-process analyst is responsible for the integrity of the business use-case model, ensuring that:
- The model as a whole is correct, consistent, and readable.
- That it covers enough of the business to provide a good basis for building systems.
Note that the business-process analyst is not responsible for the business use-case packages, business use cases, business actors, relationships, and the diagrams themselves; instead, these are under the corresponding business designer's responsibilities.
