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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Apply the Right Artifact
Use cases are great for capturing usage, not so great for capturing business rules. BR specs are good at capturing BRs, not so good at capturing usage. You want to apply the artifact which is best suited for the task at hand.
At http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/systemUseCase.htm#Figure1 I present an example of a formal use case. Several steps in the use case reference business rules which would be captured outside of the business case. This potentially increases the reusability and maintainability of the BRs.
- Scott
Scott W. Ambler
Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/ambler.html