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S1000D and S-Series

Business Rules

The decisions a program makes about everything its specification deliberately leaves open, from coding schemes to applicability to permitted content.

Definition

What Business Rules Means

Specifications like S1000D define a framework and leave the choices to the project. Business rules are those choices written down: which standard numbering system to adopt, how difference codes are used, what an author may and may not do, how applicability is modeled, which information codes are in play.

They are an editorial act before they are a technical one, which is why they belong to the people who know the documents rather than to whoever configures the tool. Where the service has already made the decisions, as the U.S. Army has in MIL-STD-3031 and the Air Force in MIL-STD-3048, a program inherits much of its rules layer rather than writing it.

The S1000D program start checklist

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Knowing what a term means is the easy half. If you need to know what it obligates on your program, that is the conversation we are built for.