Business Rules and BDM 101 - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

BrainStorm San Francisco

June 25th thru 28th, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

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Business Rules and BDM 101 - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

06/25/2012 - 09:00 From 9AM to 5PM

Incorporating Business Rules and Decisions into BPM, BDM and SOA

This intensive business rule tutorial is specifically targeted at both non-technical and technical audiences and is excellent for entire project teams. Attendees may be those involved in purely business-oriented business rule projects or projects targeted for system development. Aimed at project managers and key project people, this tutorial is the fastest and simplest way to get started on a business rules project. The course introduces the discipline of Business Decision Management (BDM) where business rules are managed in the context of Business Processes. Organizations need not purchase any new software (rule repository software or business rule engine software) to produce the deliverables in this course. This course is deliberately integrated with and references the BPMInstitute.org course that focuses on “Business Rules driven Business Requirements: using the Decision Model to enhance business requirements based on business models and model based testing.”

This tutorial introduces the attendee to the Decision Model, a platform-, and technology-independent model of business rules. You will learn that the Decision model:

Reduces the cost and time to gather and organize business rules by factors of up to 50% compared to classical methods.
Significantly reduces the cost of implementing the business rules in automation, whether you are using a BRMS or plain Java (or even COBOL).
Improves traceability from the business motivation to the code
Integrates closely into business process models, use case, data and/or business object models
Implements seamlessly into your existing project methodologies, whether they are waterfall, unified methods, or agile.
Enables business rule driven business requirements
Enables business rule based testing
Enabled Decision Services based SOA

Course Outline:

From Business Rules to a Decision Model
The Opportunity: a Case Study
The problem of business logic in systems today
Separating the business logic from other dimensions
The Decision Model as the Solution
Business Drivers
What is a Business Decision
The Decision Model Defined
The Building Blocks of the Decision Model
Decision Model Notation
The Principles: Structural, Declarative and Integrity Principles Outlined
Project Methodology
Step 1a: Align Business Motivation and Business Metrics: measuring business success from Business Rules
Step 1b: Manage Scope and Effort
Step 2: Document Business Process, Use Cases to Business Decisions
Step 3: Build Glossary
Step 4: Build Decision Model
Step 5: Analyze the Decision Model: Build Test Cases
Wrap up
A Review of Business Motivations and Metrics
The use of Business Decision in Decision Services and SOA
Overview of Business Decision Governance

Unique Value of Course:

This is the only business rule course available today that incorporates the Decision Model: this model provides significant time and cost saving on gathering and managing business rules; it also improves the quality of business rules, and enhances their maintainability. In addition, implementing business rules as a component of the business requirements and scenario testing is a opportunity to make dramatic improvements in classic, unified and agile development methodologies.

Objectives:

Improve your skills and your projects by learning the basics of how to integrate a business rules approach:

Rapidly build business rules, and model them into Decision Models.
Normalize and Analyze business rules for logical and business integrity
Integrate the Decision Model of business rules into your business process models, use cases and data models.
Use the Decision Model to enhance your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Create business rules driven business requirements
Create business rules based application testing
Select and execute a business rule project

Who Should Attend:

This uniquely practical workshop is valuable for managers on the business or technical side, involved in planning, leading, or participating in a business rules project, be it business-only project or a full systems development project. The attendee gains practical experience applying useful scoping, planning and rule discovery techniques that are on the cutting edge of business rules techniques.

Relevant attendees include those in the following roles:

Business or Enterprise Architect who wishes to gain an insight into the solution to the Business Rule problem in enterprise systems
Project manager – leading a business rules or BPM project
Business SME or Business Rule steward – providing input to rules or actually authoring initial rules prior to turning them over to IT
Business analyst – documenting or evolving Business Rules or creating supporting documentation
Use case writer – authoring “Business Rules-lite” use cases
Requirements analyst - integrating requirements and models with Business Decisions and Business Rules
Business process analyst – designing processes powered by Business Decisions and Business Rules
Business process owner/steward – providing expertise in Business Processes and BDM/Business Rules

Prerequisites:

About our Innovation Workshop series

Half-Day Innovation Workshops allow practitioners the opportunity to experience leading-edge advancements in process improvement technologies and techniques in an educational setting.

Our curriculum is designed to be a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience covering a range of topics to help you best evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific business environment.

Half-Day Innovation Workshops feature:

Hands-on exercises
Software Tool demos
Best practices
Panels
Audience participation
Customer case studies

This event will feature the following Half-Day Innovation Workshops:

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Achieve Success With BPM

How To Break Through The Barriers To BPM Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility. The introduction...

From 9AM to 12PM

Applying BPM to Transform your Business

BPM can deliver levels of transparency, productivity and accountability across your business. To achieve this, you must start with understanding the actionable, practical and proven steps for process improvement success. Join us as we discuss...

From 2PM to 5PM

Executive Luncheon: Reflections From 2011, Outlook for 2012

From 12PM to 1PM

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Managing Processes and Decisions for Better Business Outcomes

Process improvement is about achieving better business outcomes. Technology is providing powerful capabilities that organizations are using now to quickly and continuously improve customer-facing and back-end operations. The challenge, of course, is that...

From 9AM to 12PM

Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheon: Topical Peer To Peer Discussions

From 12PM to 1PM

Using Business Decision Management to Revolutionize Business Requirements and Processes

The Decision Model is a new Business Logic Framework that impacts not just technology trends but also business management practices. It brings to the world of business rules a well-defined structure based on the inherent nature of logic, extended with...

From 2PM to 5PM

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Capability Mapping

Leveraging a Foundational Business Discipline Capability mapping is commonly recognized as a business-oriented foundation for communication and collaboration, issue analysis and resolution, and prioritization and roadmap creation. Capability mapping...

From 9AM to 12PM

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