Guideline: Different Rule Discovery Types

There are different types of roadmap to be used according to the type of requirement elicitation the development team is using.

The following table is giving the different possible starting points for the elicitation workshop.

*Starting Point*	*Description*
Business Events	Start with the business events listed in the inception artifacts. Each business event is processed by a set of activities that can be described in document or business process Use when the organization does not utilize use cases
Use case	Analyze Use case description to find decision points and then rules Preferred approach, used by team used to develop use cases, or Agile user stories.
Business Process	Evaluate individual process steps and tasks to define the rule classes and then the rules Used when the organization utilizes process decomposition for the requirements gathering and analysis phase
Workflow	Analyze workflow process and search for rules enriched tasks To use on Workflow oriented project
Data analysis	Used in case of data change oriented rules project Starts with the logical data model and how evaluate how entities are created
Mission policies	Based on a top-down rules and business policies approach Rules sources are high level manager, decision makers Part of a business process reengineering effort