Resources for 
Actions to Build the Bridge from Business to IT

1. Establish a Clear Frame of Reference for Building the Bridge

2. Root the ‘Analysis’ / ‘Business Study’ Phase in the Real Business Situation by Turning it into a Business Re-Think™ Process

3. Gain a Clear Understanding of Business Events & their Planned Reponses

4. Use Workflows to Clarify How Business Responses are Delivered

5. Use Samples of Forms, Reports & Screens as Expressions of the Language of Business Staff

6. Use Audit Trail Diagrams™ to Uncover the Requirements Currently Satisfied by Existing Systems

7. Use a Formal Fact Definition Discipline & Tool

8. Use a Business-oriented Rule Statement Technique & Management Tool

9. Use a Rules-based Business Glossary to: 
        a.) bring Generic Fact Models Down to Earth with Rule Statements 
        b.) add Intelligence to Rule Statements with a Rigorous Fact Model

10. Use Two Fact Models:  Business + System

11. Use DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Methodology) enriched for the Business Rules Approach

12. Select an Application Development Tool that Supports Prototyping – where the ‘Prototype is Generated from the Data Model’