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» FEATURED: Three Stages of Decision Model Usage Today

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Three Stages of Decision Model Usage Today

Would organizations use such a model? What kinds of organizations? Who in those organizations would introduce it and create them? What would organizations use it for? How successful would these decision models be? After seven years, we have answers.They tell an interesting story about the birth and usage of this new kind of model.

» FEATURED: Four Very Useful Constructs for Concept Models: Developing a Structured Business Vocabulary

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Four Very Useful Constructs for Concept Models: Developing a Structured Business Vocabulary

A missing ingredient in most current approaches to IT requirements and business rules is developing a standard business vocabulary, a concept model. Every business analyst should be familiar with the technique – it’s simply about clear thinking and unambiguous communication. What are basic constructs in developing a concept model? This article disc...

» FEATURED: How to Introduce The Decision Model Successfully

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How to Introduce The Decision Model Successfully

All paths to organizational decision modeling encounter a common question: How do you introduce The Decision Model into an organization? More specifically, how do you gain management attention for delivering decision models as a standard practice? This month’s column addresses that question.

» FEATURED: Breaking the Rules: Breach Questions

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Three questions regarding breaches of business rules should be addressed by Business Analysts: enforcement level, guidance message, and breach response. The goal is context-dependent, pinpoint reaction to breaches in real-time. Addressing breaches intelligently is key to creating friendly, agile, secure business solutions, ones that can evolve rapi...

» FEATURED: The Whole Requirement and Nothing But the Requirement

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The Whole Requirement and Nothing But the Requirement

It is wise to use whatever techniques we can to discover the 'real' requirements and business rules before embarking on development. We all seem to know that it is cheaper to fix problems earlier rather than later in an IT project. So why do so many of our projects exhibit the same mistakes?

» FEATURED: Business Rules, Procedural Languages, and Enterprise Architecture: Basic Principles - Part 3

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Business Rules, Procedural Languages, and Enterprise Architecture: Basic Principles - Part 3

What role should business rules play in procedural languages and enterprise architecture? How do they relate to platform independence and compliance? What about knowledge retention? This column, the last in a series of three, explains the deep insights offered by the Business Rules Manifesto on these questions. Already read it? You may be surprised...

» FEATURED: 2012: A Critical Moment in Time for The Decision Model

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2012: A Critical Moment in Time for The Decision Model

This means that The Decision Model is at the center of a serious shift in the way we perceive and manage the business rule and logic dimension. So, this month’s column highlights the shift, starting with 2009 and ending with 2012. At its core are the seven observations indicating that a shift is happening. More important, each observation contains ...

» FEATURED: We Already Have a BRMS, What are We Missing?

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We Already Have a BRMS, What are We Missing?

There are capabilities necessary to implement Smart Systems, where business people manage business logic in a business-like and agile fashion, with highest integrity, and deployable to any and many targets. These are the requirements satisfied by a BDMS, not by a BRMS

» FEATURED: Flash Points: Where Business Rules Meet Business Events

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Flash Points: Where Business Rules Meet Business Events

There is a direct link between business rules and business events – one not fully understood by many Business Analysts. What is that link and why is it so important? This discussion raises a very big question about how your current requirements approach addresses business rules. Can you answer that question confidently? Here is what every Business ...

» FEATURED: Business Rules, Business Processes, and Business Agility: Basic Principles - Part 2

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Business Rules, Business Processes, and Business Agility: Basic Principles - Part 2

How do business rules relate to business processes? How do business rules support business agility and migration to new business platforms? What does re-use of business rules really mean? This column explains the deep insights offered by the Business Rules Manifesto on these questions. Already read it?

» FEATURED: More on Decision Tables and The Decision Model in Practice

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More on Decision Tables and The Decision Model in Practice

This month’s column is not a debate about decision table theory versus decision model theory. Instead, it focuses on current practices for decision tables and those of The Decision Model. It covers (1) Four Benefits of Decision Tables (2) Decision Tables in Practice (3) The Decision Model in Practice (4) The Science Behind the Transformation Steps ...

» FEATURED: Business Rules, Requirements and Business Analysis: Basic Principles - Part 1

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Business Rules, Requirements and Business Analysis: Basic Principles - Part 1

How do business rules fit with requirements? What role should business rules play in business analysis? Do business rules offer something to agile projects? This column, the first in a series of three, explains the deep insights offered by the Business Rules Manifesto on these questions. Already read it? You may be surprised by what you find here!

» FEATURED: The Unanticipated Role of The Decision Model in Data Quality

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The Unanticipated Role of The Decision Model in Data Quality

Today many business analysts are creating business-oriented decision models. These decision models contain business logic for operational decisions that operate within business processes. And, it is no surprise that data quality is critical to business-oriented decision models. After all, good decision models operating with bad data are no better t...

» FEATURED: A Panel of Experts: How to Introduce The Decision Model to Your Organization

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A Panel of Experts: How to Introduce The Decision Model to Your Organization

With the rapid adoption of The Decision Model, the most frequently asked question is: “How do I convince my organization to try it and eventually adopt it as a standard?” Two related questions from two different perspectives are: Do I have to find a way to introduce The Decision Model from the top down? Can I introduce The Decision Model...

» FEATURED: How Business Processes, Strategy, and Business Policies Relate

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How Business Processes, Strategy, and Business Policies Relate

Business process models are intuitive. That’s why people like them. They provide management blueprints for coordinating repetitive work. But are they sufficient for creating an optimal business solution for a business challenge? No. This discussion brings into focus some of their blind spots and what you can do to address them successfully.

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