Archives
All the articles I've archived.
Information Transformation in Software Engineering: From Business Intent to a Working System
Updated:A six-level model describing software development as an information transformation from unspoken business intent to a working system: an artifact registry, a role model and a detailed analysis of the business analyst's work.
A Theoretical Basis for Modeling the EUDAMED Domain
A theoretical basis for modeling the EUDAMED domain: a real entity, an MDR-defined role and a EUDAMED record are three separate sorts, not one thing under different names, grounded in foundational ontology, institutional-fact theory and compliance theory.
On Business Rules
Slides from a 2020 talk on business rules: a survey of colleagues that showed uneven practice, and what the OMG SBVR standard says about writing them.
On Business Requirements
Slides from a 2018 talk on what business requirements are and how they differ from a specification — with the answer looked for in Michael Jackson's problem frames.