Posts Tagged ‘use case’

2nd April 2009

Keeping business rules out of your use cases with decisions

Syndicated from ebizQ
Adrian Marchis had a nice article on Use Case Recycling by Extracting Business Rules. Now making sure decisions are identified explicitly in use cases avoids one of the seven deadly sins of decision management and is something I think is critical. Indeed I wrote an article on the topic on the same network [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 0 Comments

11th March 2009

Warranty Management – New rules to apply

Rob Pritchard of Infosys presented on the power of business rules in warranty. His focus is on agility – most warranty systems are inflexible and hard to change. Organizations cannot make changes to warranty policy to respond to competitors, can’t create what-if scenarios, can’t tighten claims control or pre-valid claims or repairs. These problems come [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules | 1 Comment

24th September 2008

Finding hidden decisions in business processes

Scott Sehlhorst (with whom I have presented and about whom I have written before) had a great post this week called Hidden Business Rule Example. Scott walks through some analysis of a process and shows how finding hidden decisions within that process can really inform how you think about the systems and processes you need. [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management | 0 Comments

4th August 2008

A reader asks… about development, business rules and model-driven development

I got an interesting series of questions from a reader that seemed to me to justify a longish post. The initial question was quite harmless looking:
Can you give a clue as to what software engineering approach you use/recommend for EDM, but especially business rules that non-IT staff can alter safely?
But the whole thing got more [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 4 Comments

14th July 2008

Enterprise Decision Management and the Software Development Lifecycle

One of my regular readers had a question today about Enterprise Decision Management and the Software Development Lifecycle – the EDMSDLC if you like. Here’s what he asked:
We do Business Rules in our approach… I guess one question would be, where does EDM fit in a typical SDLC? [company] does Requirements, we have a method [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Decision Management | 3 Comments

26th October 2007

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

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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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, News | 2 Comments

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