The draft diagrams describing the data and business activities that were prepared in the prior task or extracted from the results of prior planning efforts, are enhanced and corrected by the JRP workshop participants.
The relevant diagrams are the:
* Entity Relationship Diagram
* Process Decomposition Diagram
* Process Dependency Diagram
* Organization Chart
* Business Function/Location Matrix
Verify, revise and enhance the diagrams
Each major business function that is affected by the system is discussed. First the accuracy of these diagrams and matrices is verified; then adjustments are made as necessary. Individual business functions are decomposed into processes. The entity types associated with the business processes are analyzed in parallel with the process decomposition. The entity relationship diagrams relevant to the proposed system are expanded. The workshop participants revise and enhance the diagrams and create definitions of entity types and processes. This interaction is directed by the workshop leader.
This effort is focused on identifying business processes that will be supported by the proposed system. RAD focuses on building a system. Time should not be allowed to broadly expand the information architecture for the enterprise in general; these efforts must be concentrated on areas relevant to the proposed system.
Record the revised diagrams
The scribe enters the results of the group interaction in the CASE tool, polishes the information, and feeds the results back to the group as revised diagrams. A data modeling expert may participate in the workshop as a visiting expert or may assist the scribe outside the workshop and assure the quality of the data modeling.
ð Updates deliverable D3.2.1 Entity Type Definition.
ð Updates deliverable D3.2.3 Entity Relationship Diagram.
ð Updates deliverable D3.3.1 Process Definition.
ð Updates deliverable D3.3.3 Process Decomposition Diagram.
ð Updates deliverable D3.3.4 Process Dependency Diagram.
ð Updates deliverable D4.1.6 Data Flow Diagram.
ð Updates deliverable D3.4.2 Process/Entity Type Matrix.
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