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What’s the Difference Between Business Requirements and Functional Requirements?

by Ronald G. Ross on May 10, 2012

We’re teaching our online training course next week: Business Analysis with Business Rules: From Strategy to Requirements. http://goo.gl/Vnko3 Hope to see you there!
Naturally, we’ll be talking a lot about business requirements. Are business requirements the same as functional requirements? No!
Functional Requirement vs. Business Requirement
Wikipedia describes a functional requirement as …
“a requirement that defines a function [...]

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Creating a Business Model: Walk the Walls!

by Ronald G. Ross on April 20, 2012

In running facilitated sessions, we like to create each kind of business model on a different wall.  We find that the physical act of walking or shifting focus from one wall to another helps participants rapidly grasp and remember what each wall represents.  It also helps business leads and Business Analysts identify disconnects and gaps [...]

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John Zachman has a light snack evening before his tutorial at the Business Architecture Summit – BBC2011

by Ronald G. Ross on October 30, 2011
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The Debate Continues … Business Rules in Zachman 3.0 … and the Upcoming Business Architecture Summit at BBC2011

by Ronald G. Ross on October 20, 2011

At the Business Architecture Summit in Ft. Lauderdale (BBC2011 – Oct 31 – Nov 4) I will be joining John Zachman and Roger Burlton for one of our rabble-raising 3Amigo sessions. The session is only an hour long, so I’m sure there will be some fast talking(!).
One of the first questions I want John [...]

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Why Don’t Requirements Approaches and IT Methodologies ‘Get’ How to Use Strategy as a Technique? … Not Acceptable!

by Ronald G. Ross on October 13, 2011

An enterprise architect recently said to me, “The motivation (why) column of the Zachman Architecture Framework is the most underrated, underutilized construct in architecture.”
Absolutely correct. Even worse, IT methodologies (that is, the people who create and use them) don’t realize how far afield they are on the matter. As a result they cause business people [...]

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Rules in the Zachman Framework … Get Ready for a Burst of Architectural Rethink

by Ronald G. Ross on October 4, 2011

As it turns out, rules have been one of the hardest things to figure out in the Zachman Framework. From a purely selfish point of view, that’s been a good thing, because it’s given an excuse for John and I to have many long dinners over the question in places that have really, really good [...]

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3Amigos Copenhagen 2010 … New Pics … Zachman, Burlton & Yours Truly

by Ronald G. Ross on September 28, 2011

 

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Business Analysis & Business Rules – Announcing Our New Book and BBC 2011 Conference – **Special Discounts** for Friends and Colleagues

by Ronald G. Ross on September 23, 2011

Let me mention two important things happening soon and special discounts for them – Both discounts good only through **Friday, September 30**  
1. ANNOUNCING OUR NEW BOOK … Coming in October!
BUILDING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: BUSINESS ANALYSIS WITH BUSINESS RULES … an IIBA Sponsored Handbook (304pp) … It’s all about taking Business Analysis to the next level of [...]

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I talk about business rules – Roger Burlton and I both talk about recent problems of the financial sector

by Ronald G. Ross on September 8, 2011

Here’s a short clip about business rules from an interview in Amsterdam not too long ago. I actually agree with what I said …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhv7bGf3r3Y&feature=related
There are several related clips there with John Zachman, Roger Burlton, and Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT) worth a few minutes of your time — business rules, decisions, business processes, enterprise architecture, and more.

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Where are Your Business Rules … In a Big-P Process Dead Zone?

by Ronald G. Ross on September 6, 2011

On an EA LinkedIn group last week, Nick Malik wrote the following about business rules in Zachman Framework 3.0:
“I’ll bite. If the ‘enterprise ontology’ is similar to the periodic table of elements, then business rules are molecules. They are compositions of elements with specific implications, embedded in event handling logic. Why would you expect to [...]

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