From Matthew Cooper’s presentation at the Sydney Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference – Sept. 10-11, 2012 …

• “No progress will be made until you achieve a common business vocabulary. You just have to have it.”
• “Vocabulary, facts, rules. You can’t do them one at a time. You have to do them together, iteratively.”
• “Writing business rules helps you get your concept model right … and find out when it’s wrong.”
• “It’s uncanny how business rules help you identify inconsistencies and problems in current or proposed practices so early-on. Massive benefit!”
• “In our experience not more than perhaps 10% of project effort went to establishing a common vocabulary.”

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