The methodological "roles" of the different sub-models of "blue" dialect will be briefly described here. Each type of sub-model tends to address a distinct number of specific issues, such as understanding the current situation (processes) better. As modelling proceeds from one issue to another, the types of issues encountered also suggest the kind of models that might be appropriate to use in a particular situation.
 

The Concepts Model                       The Business Process Model

The Business Rule Model                 The Actors and Resources Model
 

• Helps the participants to develop and define a more "strict" terminology (or business language) to be used for communication about essential issues of the problem domain.
• Helps to improve the participants' understanding of the relevant concepts and "objects" and their relationships related to the problem area selected for analysis by modelling.
• Helps to improve the participants' understanding of statements in the Goals Model
• Helps to improve the participants' understanding of information sets and their contents used in the Business Process Model.
• Helps to improve the participants' understanding of Business Rules (referring to objects or concepts).

• Helps to clarify and/or to define existing or future state business processes
• Helps to clarify information communicated between processes

• Helps to define business rules for processes as well as for deriving information
• Helps to define different constraints in the conceptual model

• Helps to define and clarify existing or future actors, resources and their relationships.
• Helps to clarify the roles different actors play with respect to business processes, business goals, etc.
• Helps to clarify actor interrelationships and dependencies.

  

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