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» FEATURED: The Decision Model Meets Agile

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Agile development is an approach that evolves requirements and software through iterative deliverables. One of its principles is to deliver working software frequently, often through a series of two to three week iterations. The Decision Model (TDM) is a model for the full and rigorous specification of logic.

» FEATURED: Document Decisions Separately and Explicitly – A Proposed Use Case Scenario Best Practice

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Document Decisions Separately and Explicitly – A Proposed Use Case Scenario Best Practice

This article proposes a use case best practice technique: Always document decisions separately and explicitly in use case scenarios. This practice assists the business analyst in identifying where alternate and exception paths may be needed.This is similar to how decisions and resulting gateways are documented in Business Process Model and Notation...

» FEATURED: True-to-Life Business Models: How Business Rules, Business Decisions, and Business Events Relate

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True-to-Life Business Models: How Business Rules, Business Decisions, and Business Events Relate

A business model should include behavioral rules, decision rules, operational business decisions, and operational business events — all as first-class citizens. Understanding their intertwined roles is key to creating top-notch business solutions and business operation systems unmatched in their support for business agility and knowledge retention....

» FEATURED: Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts

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Business Rules: Basic Principles and Pattern Questions for Business Analysts

Before harvesting business rules, you should be aware of some basic principles and absorb them into your practices. First, all business rules are subject to change, including (and perhaps especially) business rules derived directly from business policies. The ability to change and redeploy business rules is essential to business agility.

» FEATURED: Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

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Introducing RuleGuide™ - Business Decision and Rule Management

RuleGuide is a tool that accelerates and improves the quality of business decision and rule capture, analysis and management. By providing an enterprise repository for business decisions, rules, and associated metadata, RuleGuide fosters ongoing collaboration and alignment ofthe business and IT teams.

» FEATURED: Classifying Decision Model Structures

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In this article we focus, not so much on the similarities among decision models, but on their differences. More than that, we explore the idea of classifying decision model structures based on differences in their logic. The decision model diagram is the first place to look for visible differences among decision models.

» FEATURED: Business Analysis with Business Rules

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Continuous change is a central fact of life for business these days. The techniques you use for business analysis must be based on the assumption that business rules will change, often quite rapidly. The best business solution is one that caters to such change, always doing so in the manner friendliest to business people and Business Analysts.

» FEATURED: Business Analysis Certificate Program Features The Decision Model

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Business Analysis Certificate Program Features The Decision Model

Like most business analysts, Charles captured business rules as part of requirements gathering. Also like most business analysts, he followed traditional business rules approaches. These included writing individual business rule expressions, storing them outside the confines of process models and use cases, and providing pointers to them. However, ...

» Transaction Business Logic

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Transaction Business Logic is the processing required in processing database transactions to enforce business policies. It is sometimes characterized as Enforcement logic, since the transaction should be rejected if the rules are not passed. Consider the insertion of a new Purchase Order...

» FEATURED: The Decision Model and Process Models with BPMN

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The Decision Model and Process Models with BPMN

The Decision Model in practice has delivered many unanticipated, but positive surprises. The most obvious and powerful surprise is how it drastically simplifies process models. In fact, we regularly receive unsolicited messages from people who experience this effect. For example, one practitioner condensed a 45-page process model to one with e...

» FEATURED: Business Vocabulary: The Most Basic Requirement of All

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Business Vocabulary: The Most Basic Requirement of All

Structured business vocabulary is a missing ingredient in most current approaches to developing requirements. This omission should greatly concern every business analyst. Indeed, business vocabulary is key to a whole range of fundamental challenges, including but not limited to capturing business rules. One reason is that business vocabulary, like ...

» FEATURED: The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects

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The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projects

The number of successes with The Decision Model is escalating. Organizations are using The Decision Model to solve a range of business challenges and opportunities including some we did not expect. Therefore, this month we summarize three real world projects to illustrate how organizations are using decision models and how quickly project teams are...

» FEATURED: Requirements Are Rules: True or False?

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“Requirements are rules. They arise from business models, but they are different from those business models.” Perhaps you’ve heard the argument. Maybe you’ve even made it yourself. Are they? No! Read this article to find out why.

» FEATURED: Better, Faster, Cheaper Part II - The Decision Model Meets Data Quality Head On

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Better, Faster, Cheaper Part II - The Decision Model Meets Data Quality Head On

In this article, I explain a project completed in the financial services industry. A client asked me to lead a project to redesign a failed sub-process that had resulted in billions of dollars of backed up financial transactions. This particular financial process had a history of failed and abandoned process improvement projects. The pressure was o...

» FEATURED: Software Tools for The Decision Model-Part 2

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Software Tools for The Decision Model-Part 2

You are experiencing success with decision models even without the assistance of decision modeling software. Imagine the possibilities with proper software support!

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