Business Rules and BDM 101 - Live Online - begins March 14, 2012

March 14 & 15 - 1 to 5 PM ET (each day)
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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.

Course 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

Target Audience / 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

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Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners International
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