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.
Assertion Modeling offers a better way.
New: A Full Example Model — Order Entry — Supporting DDD >
The Assertion 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
The Assertion 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
The Assertion 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 a model that grew the more I learned. It addresses a number of modeling challenges we all experience. More than 6 perspectives are included to show, divide and conquer.
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 methods 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!