Before revision: Motives for the development of IDEF3 were te need: to speed up the process of business systems modeling, to provides mechanisms to describe this data life cycle information, to supported project management techniques by an automated tool, to provide the concepts, syntax, and procedures for building system requirements descriptions, and to work well both independently and jointly with other methods which address different areas of concentration (e.g., the IDEF0 Function Modeling method) as a complementary addition to the IDEF method family.
After revision: Motives for the development of IDEF3 were the need: to speed up the process of business systems modeling, to provides mechanisms to describe this data life cycle information, to supported project management techniques by an automated tool, to provide the concepts, syntax, and procedures for building system requirements descriptions, and to work well both independently and jointly with other methods which address different areas of concentration (e.g., the IDEF0 Function Modeling method) as a complementary addition to the IDEF method family.