Workflow Detail: Refine Roles and Responsibilities

Purpose

The purpose of this workflow detail is to:

• Detail the definition of a business entity.
• Detail the responsibilities of a business worker.
• To formally verify that the results of business object modeling conform to the stakeholders' view of the business.

How to Staff

A person acting as business designer needs to be skilled in expressing him or herself in writing. Knowledge of the business domain is, of course, good, but this can be covered by involving domain experts as reviewers.

Work Guidelines

The core development team should conduct a few rounds of internal walkthroughs, facilitated by the business designer, to clean up unnecessary inconsistencies before their work is more formally inspected and reviewed by the extended team.

The team divides the material so that they do not have to review everything at once. The review meeting should not take more than a day. See also Work Guideline: Reviews.

Activity: Review the Business Object Model contains checklists that will help you when you are reviewing a business worker or business entity.