Authors: Amit Fisher, Ateret Anaby-Tavor, Avivit Bercovici, David Amid, Harold Ossher, Ian Simmonds, Matthew Callery, Michael Desmond, Sophia Krasikov
Tags: 2010, conceptual modeling
Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices andmethods in their quest to understand business. The resulting work products often end up beingtransitioned into the formal world of software requirement definitions or as recommendationsfor all kinds of business activities. We describe an empirical study about the nature of thesemethods, diagrams, and home grown conceptual models as reflected in real practice at IBM. Weidentify the models as artifacts of“enterprise conceptual modeling”. We study importantfeatures of these models, suggest practical classifications and characterizations, and distinguishthem from drawings. Specifically we look into context, type, methods and complexity todetermine enterprise conceptual models usage. Our survey shows that the“enterpriseconceptual modeling”arena presents a variety of descriptive models, each used by a relativelysmall group of colleagues. Together they form a spectrum that extends from“drawings”on oneend to“standards”on the other.Read the full paper here: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0169023X10001230?token=98FF64B9B8C092EC03C4892D1915033B389F7EE9A657F7E2255096E733CD5C810F251B4BDCE8262C2C148162992F519E
