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