BUSINESS RULES FROM A - Z - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (2 DAYS)

About This Seminar

This seminar explains what business rules and rule technology are about, and identifies the business and technical opportunities they offer your company. Using the Business Rules Manifesto as a guide, it provides clear, authoritative insight into the essential concepts, techniques, and tools of the Business Rules Approach. Find out what you need to know to be successful in your organization on a point-by-point basis, amplified by far-ranging professional experience.

Different types of rules technology are identified and reviewed, cutting through the hype, and insights are presented about where and how – and when – they can be best applied. Two emerging standards are highlighted, the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) and the Business Motivation Model (BMM), and areas of practical importance to practitioners are explained. In particular, the powerful new categorization of rules and guidance from the business perspective of SBVR is presented.

Rule management is also covered in depth, along with related tools and techniques. That sets the stage for rethinking governance in the organization, and the process by which policy and regulation are deployed and managed.

If you are looking for a way to get up to speed fast on business rules, and get the latest and best scoop on what’s happening, this seminar is for you. Come prepared with the questions you want answered about business rules!

You Will Learn About

• Achieving Business Adaptability Through Business Rules

• Business Rule Tools and Technology

• Business Rule Methodologies

• Fitting Business Rules into your Project Environment...and into your Organization

• Organizing and Managing your Business Rules for Scalability

• Roles and Responsibilities

• Pitfalls, Lessons Learned and Best Practices

• The Latest Trends and Emerging Standards

• Establishing Rule Management

• Rethinking Governance

What Makes This Seminar Unique

• Co-taught by the author of the 3 most popular books in the business rule space:
  

  • Principles of the Business Rule Approach

  • Business Rule Concepts (Second Edition)

  • The Business Rule Book

• The most up-to-date ideas and information on business rules.

• Extracted screen shots from various tools and explanations of key features.

Seminar Outline

DAY 1




Fundamentals of Business Rules

• What are business rules

• What business trends make them inevitable




Business Rules and Processes

• How business rules can be captured from processes

• How business rules can make processes better




Business Rules and Requirements

• Business rule methodology

• Roles and responsibilities

• What tools you need




The Spectrum of Business Guidance

• Rules that can be broken vs. definitional criteria

• Business rules vs. system rules




Expressing Business Rules

• Capturing business intent with clarity

• Pitfalls




Developing Business Vocabularies

• What you need for high-quality business rules

• What you need for better business communication




DAY 2




Rethinking Governance

• Where the governance process is broken

• How business rules fit in

• TAT – Traceability, accountability and transparency

• What business problems business rules address

• Improving service and automating agreements




Retooling for Business Rules

• Who, what, why and when

• What tools you need




Tool demo – Expression and Organization of Rules




Tool demo – Quality Assessment




Rule Technology

• The anatomy of rules and rule architectures

• Classes of rule engines

• Business rule standards




Rule Management in Action

• What you need to manage

• Toward comprehensive traceability