Business-driven development is a meta-

methodology In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

for developing IT solutions that directly satisfy

business requirements Business requirements (BR), also known as stakeholder requirements specifications (StRS), describe the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of the system's end user like a CONOPS. Products, systems, software, and processes ...

. This is achieved by adopting a model-driven approach that starts with the business strategy, requirements, and goals, and then refines and transforms them into an IT solution. The transformation is partially achieved by applying model transformations. Due to the alignment of the business layer and the IT layer, it is possible to propagate changes in the business automatically to the IT systems. This leads to increased flexibility and shorter turnaround times when changing the business and adapting the IT systems. Business-driven development goes further than the simple development of delivered requirements in that the implementing resource seeks to completely understand the business side during the iterative gathering and implementing of requirements and drives to, once acquiring that information, improve business processes itself during the development of the actual solution. The applicability of automatic model transformations to align business and IT has been criticized and partially replaced by agile practices and methods such as

behavior-driven development Behavior-driven development (BDD) involves naming software tests using domain language to describe the behavior of the code. BDD involves use of a domain-specific language (DSL) using natural-language constructs (e.g., English-like sentences) ...

(BDD) and

domain-driven design Domain-driven design (DDD) is a major software design approach, focusing on modeling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's experts. DDD is against the idea of having a single unified model; instead it divides a large s ...

(DDD).M. Fowler, Agile Guide, http://martinfowler.com/agile.html

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