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Business Rule Concepts
Getting to the Point of Knowledge
(Third Edition)

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Paperback
Handbook: 157 pages.
Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC (July 2009)
ISBN: 0-941049-07-8

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$29.95

New this Edition ...

  • Decisioning

  • Capturing best practices

  • Enterprise design

  • Really smart systems

  • Building business vocabularies

  • Structured verbalization for business communication

  • Applied semantics and concept analysis

  • Re-engineering governance

Introducing ... General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)


Plus all you need to know about ...

  • Business rules

  • Forms of business guidance

  • Fact models

  • Applying SBVR

  • Innovations in compliance

  • More effective process models

  • Pragmatic knowledge retention

  • Rule management

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Read a Chapter-by-Chapter Summary


Contents

Preface


The Business Rules Paradigm

  • The Body Analogy

  • The Ogranization of Business Operations

  • About this Book

Part 1: The Key Ideas

    Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Structured Business Vocabularies

    • About Noun Concepts and Terms that Represent Them

    • About Connections Between Noun Concepts and Wordings that Represent Them

    • Using Graphical Fact Models

    • Closing the Communications Gap


    Chapter 2. What You Need to Know About Business Rules

    • The Basics of Business Rules

    • Violation of Business Rules

    • Decisioning


    Chapter 3. What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management

    • General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)

    • Smart Governance

    • Re-Engineering the Governance Process


Part 2: Business Vocabularies and Fact Models

    Chapter 4. Verb-ish Models for Verbalization

    • What It Means to be Verb-ish

    • Issues That Can Only Be Handled Well Using Verbs

    • More Ways in Which Fact Models are Verb-ish


    Chapter 5. Creating a Fact Model

    • Forming Definitions

    • Capturing Fact Types and Roles


    Chapter 6. Special-Purpose Elements of Structure

    • Categories and Categorizations

    • Properties

    • Compositions — Whole–Part (Partitive) Structures

    • Classifications


Part 3: Business Rules

    Chapter 7. Business Rules

    • What is a Business Rule?

    • Behavioral Rules

    • Definitional Rules

    • More Things You Should Know

    • Exceptions


    Chapter 8. Business Rules and Events: Flash Points

    • Multiple Events for Each Business Rule

    • CRUD Events


    Chapter 9. The Art of Business Rules

    • Business Rule Reduction

    • Business Rule Quality

    • Decision Tables


Part 4: Enterprise Design

    Chapter 10. Smart Architectures and the Point of Knowledge

    • The Point of Knowledge

    • Point-of-Knowledge Architecture


    Chapter 11. Business Rules and Business Processes

    • How Business Rules Relate to Business Processes

    • Best Practices


    Chapter 12. Envisioning Really Smart Systems: Dynamic, Thin, Throwaway Procedures

    • Computational Models for Really Smart Systems

    • Behavioral Rules in Really Smart Systems

Business Rules Manifesto
The Principles of Rule Independence


Glossary


References


Index


About Ron Ross, BRS, and BRCommunity


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For additional information about Mr. Ross, please visit his personal website at www.RonRoss.info.



 

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"Articulates this complex subject lucidly, concisely and succinctly. Ron has hit a home run. Read it and see for yourself!"

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"A solid, practical, usable guide to understanding and developing the business rules that drive decisioning in your business operations."

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"Invaluable insights for anyone charged with changing whole business areas, products and services, or internal business processes."

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"Mandatory reading for business practitioners, as well as for all curricula in management, business administration and computer science. Ample practical advice and very easy to read. I enjoyed it thoroughly."

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About Business Rule Concepts
(Third Edition)

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About the Author
Ronald G. Ross

Ronald G. Ross Ronald G. Ross is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He has Chaired the annual Business Rules Forum since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and an editor of two landmark BRG papers, The Business Motivation Model and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.


Mr. Ross is Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is author of eight professional books. including Business Rule Concepts (2009), a 3rd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook. Mr. Ross speaks frequently at industry events worldwide.


Mr. Ross is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC and is actively engaged in consulting, training and research. He co-developed RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross gives highly regarded public seminars in North America through AttainingEdge and in Europe through IRM-UK.



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