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Business Rule Analysis: Practitioner MasterClass Series

by Ronald G. Ross on May 23, 2013

[ October 1, 2013; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. October 2, 2013; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. October 3, 2013; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Online Seminar

Overview

Do your business processes always produce correct and consistent results? If not the problem probably lies with your business rules and decision logic. Business Analysts need the right techniques to fix these problems – process models, use cases, data models and other requirement techniques just aren’t right for the job. This hands-on series [...]

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Looking to Find Out What Decision Analysis is About? Make Business Processes & Business Architectures Smart? Design Business-Friendly Decision Tables? Write Business-Friendly Business Rules? >>> Free downloads …

by Ronald G. Ross on May 6, 2013

As part of the April announcement of the new 4th edition of my book Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge, I’m pleased to make available some additional complementary (and complimentary!) downloads:
Decision Analysis – A Primer: How to Use DecisionSpeak™ and Question Charts (Q-Charts™) – 49pp
http://www.brsolutions.com/IPSpeakPrimers (free)
Decision Tables – A Primer: How [...]

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Attn: All ‘Capability’ Advocates – Where’s the Proof?! No Imponderable Opinions Please!

by Ronald G. Ross on April 21, 2013

I asked: What is a Business Capability? How Do Business Rules Relate? The Missing Man in Business Capabilities? http://goo.gl/JLLdx
Guest Post by Ralph Whittle, independent consultant
This is a most interesting topic, but one I fear will NOT yield answers to your questions. Considering all of the LinkedIn “capability advocates” who have actively participated in [...]

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What is a Business Capability? How Do Business Rules Relate? The Missing Man in Business Capabilities?

by Ronald G. Ross on October 19, 2012

There seems to be widespread difference of opinion about what a “business capability” is. When I use the term, however, I simply mean the ability of the business to conduct some form of operational activity.
What does the business need for that? It clearly needs people, technologies, data, and processes. And it also needs guidance [...]

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The Gigantic Logjam

by Ronald G. Ross on October 18, 2012

A reader of my blog observed that rulebook management often faces the same organizational challenges as business architecture. So true. Some 30,000-foot thoughts about why it’s so hard so get organizations to adopt them …
1. John Zachman says enterprises (organizations) are the most complicated things ever invented by humans. Now I can think of some [...]

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Business Rule Manifesto FAQs Added to BRCommunity.com

by Ronald G. Ross on October 12, 2012

I am pleased to announce that a comprehensive set of authoritative FAQs about the Business Rules Manifesto has been added to BRcommunity.com: http://www.brcommunity.com/brm.php
The Manifesto is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – and remains as powerful and as vibrant to today’s business challenges as ever. I will be covering a good many of its insights [...]

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My Three Basic Principles for Compliance

by Ronald G. Ross on October 5, 2012

1. It is always important where there’s any chance of ever having to say why.
2. It should always be channel-independent.
3. You should never put yourself in a position of having to reconstruct what rules were applied in making an evaluation or decision after-the-fact.
Compliance shouldn’t be the issue that it is – it doesn’t [...]

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‘Rules of Record’ … Why ‘System of Record’ Isn’t Enough

by Ronald G. Ross on October 2, 2012

Business computing today is characterized by a tangled web of interfaces and data movement from system to system, from source to sink. Knowing the official ‘systems of record’ is basic for resolving discrepancies and demonstrating compliance.
But that’s merely a start. What your business really needs today is to know the rules of record. A focus [...]

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Black Swans, Business Rules, and Strategy – Re-Clarified

by Ronald G. Ross on July 2, 2012

Let me re-clarify what I am, and am not, saying about business rules and black swans. There’s been some confusion. I did not say that preparing for or responding to black swans is all about business rules. (I’m not that naive!)
I did say, however, that business rules “… build robustness to negative [black swans] that [...]

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Black Swans, Business Rules, and Strategy – Continued

by Ronald G. Ross on June 28, 2012

I’ve gotten a lot of excellent response to yesterday’s post on black swans. Let me summarize yesterday’s points and continue the line of thought.
a. Business rules cannot be used to help protect against unforeseeable events that have not already happened.

b. Business analysts can assess unforeseeable events (black swans) and develop business rules to cater [...]

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