Analyzing and Implementing Effective Business Rules

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Business Rules Analysis

DESCRIPTION

Analysis of business rules involves capturing business rules from sources, expressing them clearly, validating them with stakeholders, refining them to best align with business goals, and organizing them so they can be effectively managed and reused. Business rules should be explicit, specific, clear, accessible, and single sourced. Basic principles for business rules include:
• basing them on standard business vocabulary to enable domain subject matter experts to validate them,
• expressing them separately from how they will be enforced,
• defining them at the atomic level and in declarative format,
• separating them from processes they support or constrain,
• mapping them to decisions the rule supports or constrains, and
• maintaining them in a manner such that they can be monitored and adapted as business circumstances evolve over time.
A set of rules for making an operational business decision may be expressed as a decision table or decision tree.

Elements
Business rules require consistent use of business terms, a glossary of definitions for the underlying business concepts, and an understanding of the structural connections among the concepts. Business rules should be expressed and managed independently of any implementation technology since they need to be available for …show more content…

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