Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach
- 10h 22m
- Barbara von Halle
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2002
The business rules approach to application development represents a major evolution in software engineering and promises to be the most practical and desirable way to build systems. As a result, developers are in need of a how-to guide for implementing business rules in practice. Barbara von Halle fills this niche in the literature by providing a pragmatic introduction to the techniques and guidelines necessary for assembling systems using a business rules approach. Building on familiar methodologies such as structured systems analysis, information engineering, and object orientation, you will be able to easily add a business rules approach to existing practices.
Offering you the steps and techniques to fit your specific needs, this innovative book discusses:
- Business rule basics, concepts, and methodologies
- Getting started on and planning a business rule project
- Initial requirements, rules, and data
- Analyzing data, rules, and processes to guarantee that they are all of high quality
- Implementing business rules systems using commercial-service-oriented and data-change oriented rules products
- Introducing a Rule Track into a systems development methodology
About the Author
Barbara von Halle is founder of Knowledge Partners Inc., a company that consults in data architecture and business rule services. She is a leading journalist in the business rule area, and she covered business rule concepts in a column in DBPD magazine for several years. She also contributed to The Data to Knowledge Newsletter, a publication dedicated to business rules.
In this Book
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Business Rules Applied—Business Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach
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Foreword
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The Need for a Business Rules Approach
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Business Rule Concepts
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Introduction to Business Rule Methodology
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Scoping for Success
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Project Planning with Business Rules
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Discovering Initial Requirements
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Discovering Rules and Data
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Discovering Rules through Facilitated Sessions
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Analyzing Data
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Analyzing Rules
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Analyzing Process
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Designing for a Business Rules Approach
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Implementing Business Rule Systems Using Data-Change-Oriented Rules Products
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Implementing Business Rule Systems Using Service-Oriented Products
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Rule Management
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