Business-friendly Data Models

Business-friendly Data Models

If a system is to support an enterprise’s business information requirements, a necessary part of the design process is effective review of the design by appropriate business stakeholders. For such review to be effective, the design documentation provided to those stakeholders (“the business model”) must:
be understandable
be complete, i.e. depict all information in which business stakeholders are interested
not depict any information in which business stakeholders have no interest (“noise”) which distracts or confuses reviewers, reducing review effectiveness.