Using the Decision Model to Enhance Model Based Business Requirements and Testing

This tutorial provides a powerful way to enhance existing models-based Business Requirements methods – adding a new model called the Decision Model to the catalog of business requirements. This significantly improves requirements in classic waterfall, unified method projects, and Agile Methods. The course is deliberately integrated with and references the BPMInstitute.org course that focuses on “Business Rules and BDM 101: Incorporating Business Rules 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. Aimed at business analysts, business engineers, testers, project managers, key project people, and business- and solution-architects. Developers concerned with the quality and alignment of their code with requirements would find it valuable. The course also includes material for the serious Agile method team.

This tutorial begins with a review of – if you have attended the BR101 course – or an introduction 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;
• Improves traceability from the business motivation to requirements, and to the code;
• Integrates closely into business process models, use case, data and/or business object models to complete the requirements catalog to include a formal approach to business rules;
• Provides the ability to create test cases for the program logic independent of other test cases and testing scenarios, enhancing system quality.