Advice for Business
Follow
the links below to learn about documenting and managing
business rules, and about designing and architecting rulebases. These topics are for subject matter experts
(SMEs), business rule analysts, rule harvesters,
rulebase architects, and knowledge engineers.
"An exciting new
technology called Business Rules is
beginning to have a major positive impact on
the IT industry - more precisely, on the way
we develop and maintain computer
applications."
C.J. Date, inventor of
the relational database model that
revolutionized the field of computer science
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10 Rules for Rules
Here are 10 rules for designing
good business rules. They all happen to begin
with the letter C. This was written somewhere
over the Grand Canyon on the way to San Jose, CA
for the 3rd annual
RulesFest
conference, where this was presented for the
first time.
Click here to see the
slides (1.6Mb PDF) and to hear a
recording of the 7 minute presentation (71Mb
WAV file). Be sure to listen in to hear a story
or example for each rule... |
10 Rules for Rules
- Clear... not confusing
- Complete
- Correct
- Current
- Compliant
- Condensed
- Credible... not incredible
- Careful... not careless
- Common sense
- Consistent... not inconsistent
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Any others?
We'd love to hear from you if you can think of
any other rule rules that start with C.
Contact us and let us
know what you think.
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