Business-driven development

Business Driven Development is a methodology for developing IT solutions that directly satisfy business requirements. This is achieved by adopting a model-driven approach that starts with the business strategy, requirements and goals and then transforms them into an IT solution. The transformation is typically achieved by applying model transformations. Due to the alignment of the business layer and the IT layer, it is possible to propagate changes of the business (semi-)automatically to the IT systems. This leads to increased flexibility and shorter turnaround times when changing the business and adapting the IT systems.

See also

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD)
• Business Process
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Workflow
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
• Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM)
• Model Driven Engineering (MDE)

References

[1] T. Mitra. Business-driven development. IBM developerWorks article.

[2] J. Koehler et al. The Role of Visual Modeling and Model Transformations in Business-driven Development. Proceedings of GT-VMT 2006, pages 1-12, 2006.