About This Seminar
This pragmatic seminar shows you how to use the Business Rules Approach to ensure
success in conducting business analysis. It details the techniques you need in a
business driven approach, and shows you how to apply each for dramatic improvements
in the quality of business requirements.
Practical hands-on guidelines are discussed for engineering better business solutions,
business processes and system requirements. Key deliverables including Policy Charters,
Fact Models, and Rule Books are explained, along with hands-on guidance for creating
each. Focused pattern questions are presented for each deliverable, along
with numerous examples, to ensure you can capture the associated business rules
thoroughly and accurately. This seminar shows how IT requirements specification can be
coordinated for maximum business advantage. It also shows how to improve communication
between the business and IT sides to ensure that system designs truly reflect business
thinking.
You Will Learn About
Creating a business model Developing the best possible business solution with business people Balancing process models with a strategy model and clear business concepts Using business rules in developing requirements Ensuring continuing business alignment of your project Enabling effective communication between business and IT professionals Involving business people at the right times in the right ways Dramatically improving your requirements and avoid costly downstream rewrites and delays
What Makes This Seminar Unique
This is a hands-on seminar.
In this seminar you will:
Perform business analysis and capture requirements following the Business Rules Approach. Understand how to deliver business requirements in 4-6 weeks. Review detailed, step-by-step instructions about how to prepare, facilitate, analyze and document business rule capture sessions. Learn pattern questions to capture business rules from each project deliverable. Receive real-life samples of key deliverables. Discuss a wide range of actual business rule project experiences.
Seminar Outline
Business Requirements
Why business rules How business people can take charge Effective techniques for business people The art of business re-think
Business Rule Methodology
Defining Project Scope
Developing the Business Solution Strategy
Structuring the Policy Charter Identifying and addressing business risks Where core business rules fit Developing and refining the business tactics Developing and refining the business policies Looking for the holes in the business approach
Workshop and Facilitation Discussion
Developing the Policy Charter
Capturing Business Rules from the Business Solution Strategy
Developing the Business Process
What a workflow model does How to develop the workflow model effectively Workflow models and business rules How to avoid gridlock, meltdown and other pitfalls
Workshop and Facilitation Discussion
Developing the Business Process
Capturing Business Rules Using the Business Process Model
Developing the Structured Business Vocabulary
Structuring basic business knowledge Calling things by their right (business) names How clear concepts help with process
Facilitation Discussion
Developing the Fact Model and Concepts Catalog
Capturing Business Rules Using the Structured Business Vocabulary
Developing Business Milestones
Establishing coordination regimens Exploring state transition from the business perspective Capturing state transition rules
Completing the Business Model
Organization and work rules Business geography and location rules Policy and performance and metrics
Developing the System Capability Strategy
Identifying system requirements from the business model Establishing a "true-fit" system design Ensuring business alignment
Wrap-Up
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