A New Way to Describe Business
AM is a concept, a method, software, and a big opportunity
For decades business practitioners, business analysts, and business architects have used the same methods to communicate with each other, or developers. These methods like process modeling, UML, ArchiMate and many more are complex and stale. Architecture software tools are configurable but awkward. Too much time is taken in managing the methodology information. AI needs a guide.
A Powerful Business Description and Analysis Tool
New: A Full Example Model — Order Entry — Supporting DDD >
Concept
Concentrate on:
- The business information
- Its meaning
- Who creates it
- How they decide
- Who they send it to
- How their decision is informed
Then:
- Choose a perspective
- Focus on one part at a time
- But keep it all aligned
Business is a network.
Of decisions and communications.
Methodology
Use a simple vocabulary:
- An Authority speaks on behalf of a business entity.
- An Assertion is the decision they express.
- A Frame is the structure and meaning of the information
- A Connection passes information to other Authorities
- A Perspective is a coherent subset to focus on an issue
- An Environment is where the Assertion is housed
- An Implementation is a set of assertions built, or to be built
Software
Software that:
- Provides a single source of truth for how your business works
- Is specifically designed for a single method
- Has a place for important concepts. Like personal information, effort and repetition, responsibilities, manual and automated, operational and managerial.
- Incorporates business events
- Can simulate your business
- Helps design your implementation
Examples
Recruitment is a part of HR we all think we understand. Here is the output from Assertum software that lets you browse the whole model. Check out the Perspectives to see how the modeler satisfies different model users.
Order Entry is the second full model example. This example with ore that 40 assertions shows the challenges of communicating across business domains. And it addresses directly how to identify sostware components when implementing a model (with a DDD twist).
Opportunities
What this means:
If you are a manager, architect, analyst or developer, now you can describe your business in one place, in one way. Define projects that across governance, management, operations and implementation in one place.
Describe measures, responsibilites, security, privacy, information, content, milestones, risks, benefits with one underlying paradigm. Describe the future and its intermediate states.
Then build perspectives to show how the values align from every viewpoint.
Stop churn with multiple methodologies and concentrate on the business.
Participation
Join assertion modelers who are creating AI-ready prompts from their Assertum software.
Arrange a free prompt discussion to answer your questions and create your own prompt.
“AM is too complicated!” — No —Business is complicated! — AM simplifies it!
Keep using your old methodologies — if you want to keep it vague!
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