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© Kristen Seer, Business Rule Solutions, LLC

The Journey from Finding

to Implementing

a Rule Management Tool

Kristen SeerBusiness Rule Solutions, LLC

[email protected]@KristenSeer

IIBA – VancouverApril 21, 2016

mailto:[email protected]


Agenda

Deciding Where You Want to Go

Planning Your Route

Course Corrections

Do You Ever Really Arrive?

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Deciding Where

You Want To Go

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What Are Your Objectives?

Better Requirements?

Consistent Application of Rules?

Better Comprehension?

Transparency?

Enterprise-wide BRM?

4


What Is Your Environment?

Organizational Readiness

Maturity Level

Appetite for Change

Sponsorship

5


How Will You Show Value?

$$ Saved

Customer Satisfaction

Agility

Transparency

Speed to Market

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Planning Your Route

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Business Architecture

MethodologyTools

Business Governance

Aspects of BRM


Business Strategy(Why)

Structured Business

Vocabulary (What)

Business Processes

(How)

Business Connectivity

(Where)

Stakeholders (Who)

Business Milestones

(When)

Business Rules and Decisions

An Architectural Approach


What to Capture

Components

Relationships

Properties

Traceability

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Methodology

Deliverables

Techniques

Skills

Center of Excellence

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Business Governance

a process, organizational function,

set of techniques, and systematic approach

for creating and deploying

policies and business rules

into day-to-day business activity

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Building Business Solutions (2nd Edition) by Ronald G. Ross with Gladys S.W. Lam (2015)


Business Governance

Stewardship

Structure

Process

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Tools

Rule Management Tools

Rule Execution Tools

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What Does a Rule Management Tool Do?

Capable of managing all of an organization’s business rules

Manages business rules independentlyfrom any implementation

Manages business rules through their entire lifecycle

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Who Is the Target Audience?

Business People

Business Analysts

Business Architects

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Benefits

Single Source of Truth

Consistency

Reuse

Quality

Productivity

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DMS - Decisions First ModelerSparkling Logic - SMARTS RuleArts - RuleXpress

Qualiware - Enterprise ArchitectureSparx - Enterprise Architect

Examples of Tools that can be used to Manage Business Rules


Support of Basic Features

Scalability

Single-Sourcing

Creating Content

Identifying Redundancies

Versioning

Flexibility in Reporting

Concurrency

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Support of Advanced Features

Feature Business Architecture

Requirements Management

Decision Modeling

General RuleBook

System

Business Process

Modeling

Vocabulary Support

Traceability

Validation & Verification

Quality Assurance

Impact Assessment

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Course Corrections

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Do’s

Start small and grow

Show value at every step

Be an evangelist

Pick your battles

Be patient

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Don’ts

Assume everyone knows about business rules

Add unnecessary controls

Make the process too complicated

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Do You Ever Really Arrive?

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Conclusion

• Understand what you want to achieve with BRM

• Show value at every step

• Equip Business Analysts with the right skills and tools

• Address all 4 aspects of BRM

• It’s an evolution, not a revolution

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Resources

• www.brcommunity.com

• Building Business Capability Conference Oct. 31-Nov. 4, Las Vegas

• BRS Online Training June 7-9Working with Business Rules: Capture, Specification, Analysis & Management

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