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Business Rule Concepts
Getting to the Point of Knowledge
(Third Edition)
Paperback
Handbook: 157 pages.
Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC (July 2009)
ISBN: 0-941049-07-8
Price: $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
Contents
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Preface
The Business Rules Paradigm
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
Chapter 3. What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management
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
Chapter 6. Special-Purpose Elements of Structure
Part 3: Business Rules
Chapter 7. Business Rules
Chapter 8. Business Rules and Events: Flash Points
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
Chapter 11. Business Rules and Business Processes
Chapter 12. Envisioning Really Smart Systems: Dynamic, Thin, Throwaway Procedures
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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About Business Rule Concepts
(Third Edition)
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About the Author
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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