A conceptual data model describes the things important for an organization as entity classes and characteristics of the
things as attributes, and using associations between things. By 'thing' we mean anything perceivable or
conceivable and used in a day to day conversation.
Conceptual data model is used to explore domain concepts as a communication vehicle between the analysts and
the business team members.
With an Agile approach CDMs are used to explore the high-level static business structures and concepts, and
are described during the initial requirements iterations. In our approach conceptual data model are the first version
of the logical data model. So we use different level of a class diagram to represent the CDM. The rule
elicitation phase is most of the time leveraging the diagrams of the CDMs, but once we progress into the
iterations the CDMs are replaced by the LDMs.
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