Writing Effective Business Rules

Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. A user guide to the SBVR specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate business vocabulary and generate quality rule statements using the appropriate templates and terms from the vocabulary. The resulting rule statements can be reviewed by business stakeholders for relevance and correctness, providing for a high level of confidence in their successful implementation.

Autorentext
Graham C. Witt is an independent consultant with over 30 years of experience in assisting enterprises to acquire relevant and effective IT solutions. His clients include major banks and other financial institutions; businesses in the insurance, utilities, transport and telecommunications sectors; and a wide variety of government agencies. A former guest lecturer on Database Systems at University of Melbourne, he is a frequent presenter at international data management conferences.

Klappentext

A user guide for business analysts providing a practical methodology for implementing the SBVR standard.

Zusammenfassung
Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. It explains how to develop an appropriate business vocabulary and generate quality rule statements using the appropriate templates.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The world of rules

Chapter 2 - How rules work

Chapter 3 - A brief history of rules

Chapter 4 - Types of rules

Chapter 5 - The building blocks of natural language rule statements

Chapter 6 - Fact Models

Chapter 7 - How to write quality natural language rule statements

Chapter 8 - An end-to-end rule management methodology

Chapter 9 - Rule statement templates and subtemplates