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» FEATURED: Use Cases and Business Rules: Can They Work Together?
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Use Cases and Business Rules: Can They Work Together? There is much written today about separating business rules from other dimensions of automated business systems. Without proper separation, they operate in enterprises without a great deal of thought given to them. Ironically, they may be the most important dimension because they represent important business thinking behind processes, use cases, fo...

» FEATURED: Why Decision Tables are not enough: From Decision Tables to Decision Models
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Why Decision Tables are not enough: From Decision Tables to Decision Models Decision tables have long been a successful technique for representing structured logic. Being visual, they circumvent the need for unnatural formal language or grammar. We use them not only to communicate that logic, but also to automate it. They are especially useful for validating the logic’s completeness and consistency.  Yet, this article...

» FEATURED: A BRMS is not a BDMS: Ten Ways in Which Dealing Business Rules Vendors can be Frustrating for Business Analysts
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A BRMS is not a BDMS: Ten Ways in Which Dealing Business Rules Vendors can be Frustrating for Business Analysts There is a great deal of confusion about the role of the Business Rule Management System (BRMS). Given the prominent role of the words “business” and “management”, one would be forgiven for believing that a tool thus named would manage the business aspects of the rules of the business. But to the contrary, across the entire class of these tools the...

» FEATURED: Agility Based on Business Rules
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Agility Based on Business Rules Today’s business systems aren’t agile – even when agile software methods are used to develop them. Companies need business agility, and in most cases we simply aren’t delivering it.  Here’s an example from recent experience. I visited a very large health care organization and had conversations there with a variety of people.

» FEATURED: Business Rules vs. System Design Choices
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Business Rules vs. System Design Choices Until business analysts really begin to understand the difference between rules of the business (business rules), and choices about system design, we’ll keep falling to the same requirements and legacy traps as always. In my previous column I looked closely at the meaning of business rule. Now let’s probe the two fundamental categories of business ...

» FEATURED: What is a Business Rule?
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What is a Business Rule? For business analysts, understanding decision logic from the perspective of business people is key. For that you need business rules. But when can a rule be considered a business rule, and when not? This article presents five pragmatic tests for knowing when you have identified a true business rule.

» FEATURED: More Details on How to Ditch Your Business Rules!
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More Details on How to Ditch Your Business Rules! Last time, we proposed that, with business rules, we surely can. The traditional way we manage business rules is time-consuming. It focuses on details rather than the bigger picture. The details are the business rules themselves - expressed, analyzed, approved, and stored in a safe place. But, viewed as details, they lose momentum, postponed until ...

» 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.
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