AttainingEdge: Business Rule Analysis: Practitioner MasterClass Series
Location: Online Seminar Overview Do your business processes always produce correct and consistent results? If not the problem probably lies with your business rules and decision logic. Business Analysts need the right techniques to fix these problems – process models, use cases, data models and other requirement techniques just aren’t right for the job. This hands-on series will equip you with proven techniques for success. More info: http://www.attainingedge.com/online-training-business-rule-analysis-masterclass.php Register for full series!Session 1. The why, what and who of business rules
Next Session: January 29, 2013 @ 10:30am – 12:00noon (ET)
- Why business rules
- What benefits you can achieve
- What business rules are, and are not
- Business rules vs. business processes
- Kinds of business rules: definitional vs. behavioral
- How the business should react to violations
- Business rules and decisions
- What skills you need to capture business rules effectively
- What you need to know
Session 2. Eight steps to find and capture business rules
Next Session: January 29, 2013 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm (ET)
- Capturing business rules from people’s heads
- Capturing business rules from great big documents
- Using facilitated sessions
- Step-by-step approach
- What about reverse-engineering business rules from code
- Do’s and don’ts
Session 3. Eight steps to express clear business rules
Next Session: January 30, 2013 @ 10:30am – 12:00noon (ET)
- Business policies vs. practicable guidance vs. automated rules
- The role of business vocabulary
- Step-by-step approach
- Clarity and completeness
- Eliminating ambiguity
- Addressing exceptions
- Guidelines
- What to avoid and why
Session 4. How to analyze and communicate business rules
Next Session: January 30, 2013 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm (ET)
- Basic principles for rule analysis
- Rule quality
- Handling conflicts
- Developing business reactions to violations
- Simplification – When, why and for whom
- How to validate business rules with business people and SMEs
- Verification – Examples
Session 5. Eight steps to set-up decision tables
Next Session: January 31, 2013 @ 10:30am – 12:00noon (ET)
- When to use decision tables
- How to set up decision tables
- Decision tables and business process models
- What your decision tables should not do
- Decision tables and business vocabulary
- Best practices
- Alternative formats
- Completeness, subsumption and conflicts
Session 6. Ten steps to start or refine your business rules projects
Next Session: January 31 2013 @ 3:30pm – 5:00pm (ET)
- Business rules and requirements
- Properties of business rules
- Traceability of business rules
- Retaining corporate memory
- Managing the life cycle of business rules
- Business rule management – examples
- Business rules and rule engines – implementation examples
- How to get started
Ronald G. Ross
Ron Ross, Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rules Solutions, LLC, is internationally acknowledged as the “father of business rules.” Recognizing early on the importance of independently managed business rules for business operations and architecture, he has pioneered innovative techniques and standards since the mid-1980s. He wrote the industry’s first book on business rules in 1994.