Good News From Business Rules: #1 – Rule Independence
Rule Independence[1] means that business rules are expressed directly, rather than embedded (and lost) in the flow of processes or application programs. That way the rules can be managed as an asset in their own right, separately from other artifacts. When people hear ‘separately’ sometimes they think that business processes and business rules are isolated from one another and never ‘talk’. No. You simply want to let them ‘bind’ as close to real-time business operation (‘run-time’) as possible. ‘Separately’ also means you can:- Represent business rules in their natural form – declaratively – rather than procedurally.
- Simplify processes hugely, while at the same time create far more agile solutions.
- Capture, express and validate business rules.
- Work with the business rules in the context of other deliverables.
- Set up the business rules to be managed for the long term.
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