Rules, Business Modeling and Requirements Engineering – The whole picture

As organizations strive toward the grail of business and systems agility, business rules are being more and more viewed as a “first class” business component on a par with process and data. All three comprise major elements of business modeling and there is still some debate on how to fit them all together most effectively. But all these elements must also co-exist with and compliment the less often discussed grand daddy of them all, pure textual requirements statements. These too continue to have their role, especially in large government and commercial contracting of systems development. How do all these elements integrate to create the most effective and efficient communication of specification and expectation is a problem these same government and commercial continue to face, and is the topic of this presentation.