BUSINESS RULE CONCEPTS:
Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th Edition)
By Ronald G. Ross
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Chapter 2: What You Need to Know About Business Rules
Background …
Easy-to-understand explanation of business vocabulary, business rules and business processes … and how they relate!
Find out how to …
- Analyze and manage each of the two major kinds of business rules.
- Analyze and define business concepts, model business vocabulary, and create a concept model.
- Make business processes smart and agile.
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The classic book on business rules, now in its 4th edition.
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- Re-engineering governance using General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)
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Requirements, Smart Architecture, Compliance, Business Vocabulary
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Business Rule Manifesto … now in over 15 languages, read by well over 100,000 people worldwide.
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Contents
Preface — The Business Rules Paradigm- The Body Analogy
- The Organization of Business Operations
- About this Book
Part 1 — The Key Ideas
Chapter 1 — What You Need to Know About Structured Business Vocabularies- About Noun Concepts and Terms that Represent Them
- About Connections Between Noun Concepts and Wordings that Represent Them
- Using Graphical Concept Models
- Closing the Communications Gap
- The Basics of Business Rules
- Violation of Business Rules
- Decision Management and Decision Tables
- Business Activity vs Specialized Know-How
- General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)
- Smart Governance
- Revitalizing the Governance Process
Part 2 — Business Vocabularies and Concept Models
Chapter 4 — Concept Models and Verbalization- What It Means to be Verb-ish
- Issues That Can Only Be Handled Well Using Verbs
- More Ways in Which Concept Models are Verb-ish
- Forming Definitions
- Capturing Verb Concepts and Roles
- Categories and Categorizations
- Properties
- Compositions — Whole-Part (Partitive) Structures
- Classifications
Part 3 — Business Rules
Chapter 7 — Business Rules- What is a Business Rule?
- Behavioral Rules
- Definitional Rules
- More Things You Should Know
- Exceptions
- Multiple Events for Each Business Rule
- CRUD Events
- Drilling Down
- Quality Assessment
- Decision Tables
Part 4 — Architecture
Chapter 10 — Smart Architectures and the Point of Knowledge- The Point of Knowledge
- Point-of-Knowledge Architecture
- How Business Rules Relate to Business Processes
- Best Practices
- Computational Models for Really Smart Systems
- Behavioral Rules in Really Smart Systems
Business Rules Manifesto — The Principles of Rule Independence
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author — Ronald G Ross
About Business Rule Solutions, LLC
About BRCommunity.com
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