The Business Rules Approach
by David Wright
“The biggest risk to your company is not being able to change fast enough… Business Rules are the answer.” …Ron Ross
I am a great appreciator of Mr. Ross. He has written extensively on the topic of Business Rules, offers excellent training on the subject, and is the keynote speaker at each year’s International Business Rules Forum. I would like to start my own article on Business Rules with an ‘icebreaker’ he used on a seminar I attended.
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Rules and Use Cases
Interesting article, thankyou.
I'm interesting in hearing how people who use use cases integrate these with business rules. We tend to use business rules as a support to use cases, describing complex validations or calculations where required. Many of the examples you give of business rules would be embedded in the use cases themselves and not articulated as a separate rule.
You also seem to suggest that business rules should be used to specify the configuration parameters for an off the shelf system. We have a separate document for this, and I'm wondering how you differentiate between rules that are configurable and those that aren't?