Business rules are an essential part of business analysis because they define, constrain or enable software behavior and business processes. Rules are at the heart of functional requirements. Deriving, specifying, verifying, and validating business rules that are high quality—correct, consistent, clear and complete—is an enormous challenge for business analysts.
This advanced workshop will take you on a three-part journey. In part 1, you will identify business rules that further define analysis models such as events, state diagrams, use cases and the logical data model. During part 2, you will dig into the details of writing atomic (very granular) business rules and use the six categories of rules and their syntax to write precise, testable, business rule statements. We complete our roundtrip journey in part 3 by threading the business rules back to the requirements models that will enforce or implement them. This journey will provide you with specific tools and techniques to enable you to succeed with business rules in your requirements efforts.
Learning Objectives:
- Leverage focus questions to uncover business rules in analysis models
- Write precise, testable business rules
- Use business rules to test the completeness and correctness of user requirements
Skill Level: Advanced
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Mary Gorman, CBAP
Senior Associate, EBG Consulting
Mary Gorman, CBAP, Senior Associate at EBG Consulting helps managers and analysts leverage a variety of tools and techniques to plan, build, monitor and measure project deliverables. Prior to her association with EBG, Mary had over 20 years experience working with many organizations, including numerous Fortune 100 companies, as a consultant, mentor, trainer, facilitator, process engineer, developer and analyst building robust business and system models. Mary is a member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) and serves on the IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge™ (BABOK™) committee and is the leader of the Requirements Elicitation knowledge area. She can be reached at mary@ebgconsulting.com and www.ebgconsulting.com. |
