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12/1/2010 1:10 PM

	kt
2 posts

how to document complex set of business rules and calculations.

Hello folks,

Can anyone suggest any good ideas to document complex & massive(100’s of pages) set of business rules and calculations?

Specifically, I am eliciting requirements for a new application, the stakeholders are helpful and providing a lot of long and descriptive process steps, rules and sample spreadsheet calculations. It seems very editorial and not sure if they would be helpful for development. What I see is that most of the steps are mostly automated calculations based on certain conditions. Seems like ideal candidate to use decision trees and business rules engine, but I don’t have much experience with it.

Has anyone had any similar experiences or suggest any good ways to document such large amounts of calculations / business rules them. Any examples would be helpful.

12/1/2010 8:33 PM

	David Wright
141 posts
www.iag.biz

Re: how to document complex set of business rules and calculations.

Check out the folks at Business Rule Solutions , http://www.brsolutions.com/

What you are describing is even more complicated than you think now; rules are not just requirements, they are about vocabulary, terms, staements of fact, constraints on facts = rules, and much more.

If you like what you see at BRS, tell them Dave Wright of IAG Consulting sent you....

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David Wright