Data State Modeling

This is a group of blog posts related to the technique of Data State Modeling in the Integrated Modeling Method, used for modeling the change in the state of data over time.

By John Owens • January 6th, 2009

Data in a business can often exist in many states.  For example, a theatre booking could possibly exist in the states of “provisional”, “cancelled”, “confirmed”, “transferred”, “picked up”.  If such were the case it might be essential to know what Business Functions move the booking from one state to the next.
Data State Modeling is the [...]