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» The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success

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The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success

A businesses rules management system (BRMS) can help a business in almost any industry realize two goals: make faster decisions with an automated process; and make better decisions for more profitable results. Unfortunately, many businesses assume that the road to decision management success ends simply with selection of the right BRMS. But that’s ...

» FEATURED: Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How

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Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How

Does the business perceive business rules as a true organizational asset? Are they visible, valuable, and universally accepted as data is? Above all, does business rule management attract and sustain enterprise-wide high-level management attention?

» FEATURED: What Every Business Analyst Needs to Know About Rulebook Management

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What Every Business Analyst Needs to Know About Rulebook Management

The goal of rulebook management is to give business workers and business analysts the ability to access and manage decision logic directly. The focus is on the kinds of challenges these business workers and analysts face on a day-in and day-out basis.

» FEATURED: Evolving the Decision Model With Views

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Every project in which we have implemented the Decision Model has seemed to bring further proof that – in the world of business logic or business rules, it seems to create a frictionless environment. We see “Ah ha!” moments time and again when people realize the simplicity to which their complex logic or business rules may be reduced by applying th...

» FEATURED: Three Reasons to Upgrade from Business Rules to Decision Models

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Three Reasons to Upgrade from Business Rules to Decision Models

In a previous column, we looked at how Decision Models improved an actual project. Below, we explore why the Decision Model is the next logical (and simple) advance in process modeling and business rules. We do so by addressing five questions. How does the Decision Model improve a business process model? Where did the business rules go? Why did the...

» FEATURED: What You Need to Know About Business Rules

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What You Need to Know About Business Rules

Business rules should be externalized from processes and established as a separate resource. Rule Independence permits direct management of the business rules, so they can evolve at their own natural pace rather than that of the software release cycle. Other benefits include better process models, and much closer tie-in to the business side (a.k.a....

» FEATURED: What Analysts Need to Know about Decisioning and Business Rules: Interview with Ronald G. Ross

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What Analysts Need to Know about Decisioning and Business Rules: Interview with Ronald G. Ross

Whether you’ve never heard of business rules or you are a business rules guru, you need to understand that business rules need to be a first-class citizen of the requirements world. In this interview, Ronald G. Ross, recognized as the “father of business rules,” shares his wisdom on business rules and what every business analyst needs to know ...

» FEATURED: What Business Analysts Need to Know About Decision-Aware Business Processes

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What Business Analysts Need to Know About Decision-Aware Business Processes

Last month's column introduced a missing model for business analysts. The Decision Model is a normalized rigorous model for business logic like the Relational Model is for data. "Business logic is simply a set of business rules represented as atomic elements of conditions leading to conclusions. As such, business logic represents business thinking ...

» FEATURED: The Missing Model for Business Analysts

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As a business analyst, you are a problem solver. You are skilled at tailoring an approach to a business situation with different kinds of models. However, until now, you are missing one. Worthy of its own model, there is an important dimension left behind. It lies buried, capable of wreaking havoc.

» Driving Business Efficiency: The Fusion of Process and Project Management

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With current economic conditions, companies are striving to do more with fewer resources, both human and material. So it should be no surprise that the fusion of business processes and practices is both relevant and necessary. Over the past two decades business methodologies and corporate programs have established track records that demonstrate per...

» FEATURED: Why & How: Business Process Modelling

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Processes are the user interface to a solution – as such they are highly visible and a lot of project effort is focussed on process modelling. In fact, there is a perception in some quarters that Business Analysts just draw process models and this is all they do. However, process models (the drawings of processes) are only one facet of the specific...

» FEATURED: Use Case Recycling by Extracting Business Rules

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Have you ever thought the following thought while describing business processes? A decent percentage of the work business analysts (BAs) do is repetitive in nature. Business rules define the various subject matters, different businesses, or just differences in doing business. Just recently, I have again used a use case approach to a business proces...

» FEATURED: Using Decision Management to improve Requirements

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Business analysts are at the sharp end of one of the great challenges of information technology – how to build the systems organizations need. At the same time, organizations are demanding more sophisticated systems – the “dumb” systems of yesteryear are no longer enough.

» A Wiki for Business Rules in Open Vocabulary, Executable English

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The problem of business-IT alignment is of widespread economic concern. As one way of addressing the problem, this paper describes an online system that functions as a kind of Wiki -- one that supports the collaborative writing and running of business and scientific applications, as rules in open vocabulary, executable English, using a browser. ...

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