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 automatically to the IT systems. This leads to increased flexibility and shorter turnaround times when changing the business and adapting the IT systems.

Business-driven development goes further than the simple development of delivered requirements in that the implementing resource seeks to both completely understand the business side during the iterative gathering and implementing of requirements and drives to, once acquiring that information, improve business processes itself during the development of the actual solution.

See also

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Business process automation
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Workflow
• Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
• Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM)
• Model Driven Engineering (MDE)
• Service-Oriented Modeling Framework (SOMF)

References

• T. Mitra. "Business-driven development". IBM developerWorks article.
• J. Koehler et al. "The Role of Visual Modeling and Model Transformations in Business-driven Development". Proceedings of GT-VMT 2006, pp. 1–12, 2006.