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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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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 ...

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