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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Where do Rules stop and Data Handling Conditions begin?
I agree that you've presented an interesting article, the best bit is coupling Rules concepts with the ideas in the Zachman Framework.
Now, here's a struggle: Rules for an enterprise-wide, health insurance company include references to tabled data and the way that the system must deal with the data. The list of "rules" for handling 5 million subscriber's information are legion!
Where do "business rules" stop here when it comes to the conditional logic the code employs as it encounters data? I am encountering differing opinions.
IF
AND patient is member of
THEN route call to [member skill group S]
ELSE GOTO [play benefit detail-msg]
These rules are changing constantly; they do not fit the "atomic" definition of a BR, and they are dynamic, based on the market, the contract, etc.
I look forward to others' replies.
~Kimber
Dallas, Tx