Business Rule Solutions - The Business Rule Technique Company

The Business Rules Approach to Requirements:
Business Analysis and Modeling (2 days)

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, where 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

    • Business model vs. system model
    • Phases, deliverables and sign offs

    Defining Project Scope

    • The elements of scope
    • Defining mission, goals and objectives
    • What about the project charter?

    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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