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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
April, 2006 Vol 7 No. 4
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. Business Rules in Practice by Bonnie Moonchild
2. Premise & Conclusion: The RuleSpeak(R) Business Rule Notation,
by Ronald G. Ross
3. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top
Ten Principles (Part 3), by Roger T. Burlton
4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 14),
by Terry halpin
5. Zen & the Art of Rules: Center of Gravity, by Mark Myers
6. SBVR Speaks: Notations for Business Rule Expression
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http://www.brcommunity.com/1. Business Rules in Practice by Bonnie Moonchild ...............................................................
In this month's feature, Bonnie Moonchild shares her real-world experiences from putting business rules into practice. She provides a look into some of the unique challenges that the business was facing -- including loss of business knowledge from pending retirements, scarce resources and funding -- and how she introduced a rules approach in response to those challenges. Bonnie ends her story with some of her key 'lessons learned' from the project.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b281.html2. Premise & Conclusion: The RuleSpeak(R) Business Rule Notation,
by Ronald G. Ross
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In September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) approved the "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification. SBVR, which is the first OMG standard for fact models and business rules, is in finalization as of this writing.
SBVR is a highly-structured set of fundamental concepts, not a syntax for rule representation. In part, this approach is necessary for multi-lingual support; in part, it is to ensure support for a variety of representational schemes. One such scheme is RuleSpeak(R), which played a central role in the shaping and proofing of the standard itself. In this month's column, Ron Ross introduces the RuleSpeak Annex of SBVR.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b282.html3. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten
Principles (Part 4), by Roger T. Burlton ...............................................................
Years of successful and not-so-successful process management experience have led to a set of best practices -- a number of fundamental principles that must be honored in order to optimize returns to the company, the delivery of business results to customers, and to satisfy the needs of the organization’s other stakeholders. In this series, Roger Burlton outlines the ten principles that underlie the methods of business process operation and change. In this month's column, he discusses the fourth principle.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b285.html4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 14),
by Terry halpin
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Business rules should be validated by business domain experts, and hence specified using concepts and languages easily understood by business people. This is the fourteenth in a series of articles on expressing business rules formally in a high-level, textual language.
In this month's column, Terry Halpin discusses discusses why subtype definitions are needed, and how to verbalize them.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b283.html5. Zen & the Art of Rules: Center of Gravity, by Mark Myers ...............................................................
The stability of a motorcycle has a lot to do with the center of gravity of the bike. "When I am preparing for a trip, how I pack the bike can change the center of gravity," writes Mark Myers in this month's column. A poorly packed bike can frustrate all the good engineering that went into the bike's design. When designing an agile business you must also keep the enterprise center of gravity low. A business rules approach helps keep the enterprise agile through the identification of rule volatility and the matching of rule implementation with the business architecture. In this month's column, Mark shares a simple reference architecture and discusses the importance of 'packing for the ride'-- does a rule go in the trunk? or in the saddlebags? or ...
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b284.html6. SBVR Speaks: Notations for Business Rule Expression ...............................................................
In September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) approved the "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification of the OMG. In March 2006, the first Interim Specification document was issued, marking the beginning of the public input period. This month's instalment of "SBVR Speaks (for Itself)" looks at business rule expression forms in some detail. [read more...]
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