Don’t miss the great post about his and Ilog’s take on rule and decision management methodologies by James Taylor today (available here). Here’s the bottom line: Focus on what the system does or decides. Focus on the actions taken during a business process and the decisions that govern them and the deductions that they rely [...]
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Elicitation and Management of Rules, Requirements and Decisions
A manager of an enterprise architecture group recently asked me how to train business analysts to elicit or harvest rules effectively. We talked for a bit about the similarities in skills between rules and requirements and agreed that analysts will fail to understand rules as they fail to understand requirements. For example, just substitute rules [...]
When Rules Meet Requirements
I am working on some tutorial material for business analysts tasked with eliciting and harvesting rules using some commercial business rules management systems (BRMS). The knowledgeable consumers of this material intuitively agree that capturing business rules should be performed by business analysts who also capture requirements. They understand that the clarity of rules is just [...]