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Scope <> Business Rules

April 24, 2008

Jeff Jonas wrote an interesting post – Custom Software Scope Changes (Not) – that reminded me of my ongoing battle to argue that rules are not requirements. Jeff argues that we take far too little time designing custom software before we start to build it. A summary quote from his post illustrates his point:
I am [...]

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Wonderful example of rule harvesting

March 31, 2008

Paul Haley has done an amazingly thorough job walking through a business rule harvesting example over on his blog. If this is
something you either do for a living or are considering, read the post. Where Paul finds the time to write such long, detailed posts I will never know….

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RAD with rules

February 22, 2008

I saw this post on Better Projects and it reminded me of days spent writing a RAD methodology for Ernst and Young. RAD, or Rapid Application Development, uses prototyping and lots of short iterations to keep a development project on track. The post has a nice graphic showing the cycles within cycles used in the [...]

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Requirements, Dr Strangelove and loving change

January 28, 2008

Mike, over at the requirements defined blog, had this post today: Dr. Changelove (or how I learned to quit worrying and love change). I used a similar title just over a year ago in an article on ebizQ called Business Rules Cafe (for those who don’t remember, Atomic Cafe was another satirical film about the [...]

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Smart (Enough) Systems discussion on the Requirements Network

November 8, 2007

Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network – check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

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Use Cases, Business Rules and Decisions

October 31, 2007

An email acquaintance who works with business rules at a large European financial institution sent me an interesting question today. In it he said
I think that some degree of redundancy between UCs[Use Cases] and BRs[Business Rules] are needed, because if all BRs are extracted from the UCs (and not shown there anymore) it would become very hard [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software

October 26, 2007

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

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