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Use Cases and Business Rules

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By James Taylor on August 17, 2010 5:24 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg had an interesting article titled Use Cases and Business Rules - can they work together over on Modern Analyst. In the article they discuss the role of the Decision Model and business rules in... Read More..
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The Decision Model and business rules

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By James Taylor on November 2, 2009 9:47 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The new book from Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology, is now available. This book outlines an approach for capturing and managing the business rules you need to understand... Read More..
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Keeping business rules out of your use cases with decisions

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By James Taylor on April 1, 2009 8:34 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Adrian Marchis had a nice article on Use Case Recycling by Extracting Business Rules. Now making sure decisions are identified explicitly in use cases avoids one of the seven deadly sins of decision management and is something I think is... Read More..
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If IT can't get you there, perhaps decision management can

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By James Taylor on December 17, 2008 7:37 AM 2 1 Vote 0 Votes
Dick Lee had an interesting post titled We Know Where We're Going, But IT Can't Get Us There. He made a number of points of which three stood out: Business often fails to communicate effectively to IT Poor process definition... Read More..
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What's new in Application Development 2.0 - Iterate

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By James Taylor on September 18, 2008 8:22 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Third change in Application Development 2.0 iterate don't finish. One of the biggest problems in systems is an obsession with finishing. IT departments want to get systems off their lists, budget people want to know how complete things are and... Read More..
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What's new in Application Development 2.0 - Collaborate

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By James Taylor on September 16, 2008 8:02 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Some time ago I wrote a post on Application Development 2.0 three key changes seem to me to be involved:Collaborate don't competeDeclare don't codeIterate don't finishLet's take the first one today and work on the other two later in the... Read More..
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From the Archives - What if your house was built the way your software is?

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By James Taylor on August 5, 2008 9:08 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I was going through some old posts the other day and thought that some of them deserved to see the light of day again. Here then are some of my favorite topics from the 2006-2007 archives. What if home owners... Read More..
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Decision Management Concept #4 - Business Rules

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By James Taylor on July 29, 2008 8:00 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
There are a number of advantages gained by expressing business logic in business rules and using the processing and management facilities included with a Business Rules Management System to work with them. In brief summary: The separation of decision logic... Read More..
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Here's another "If only "

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By James Taylor on June 25, 2008 6:12 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Carey Schwaber from Forrester published a nice little post this week - The "If Onlies" Of App Dev. The list included a couple that I really like:If only requirements were completeIf only software were easier to evolveMe I think these... Read More..
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Top posts from the decision management blog

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By James Taylor on March 20, 2008 9:42 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I thought it would be fun to highlight my 20 most popular posts from the last couple of years so here goes: Keeping Predictive Analytics and BI on separate tracks If IT wants to alter outcomes, it needs to automate... Read More..
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