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About the Author

Ronald G. Ross

Ronald G. Ross is recognized internationally as the ‘father of business rules.' He is Co-Founder and Principal of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, where he is active in consulting services, publications, the Proteus® methodology, and RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and as Chair of the Business Rules Forum Conference. He is the author of nine professional books, most recently Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules (2011). Mr. Ross speaks and gives popular public seminars across the globe. His blog: http://www.ronross.info/blog/

Business Rule Concepts:

Getting to the Point of Knowledge (Third Edition)

By Ronald G. Ross

Format: 157 pages / Paperback
Publisher: Business Rule Solutions, LLC (July 2009)
ISBN: 0-941049-07-8
Price:

$29.95

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New this Edition ...

• Decisioning
• Capturing best practices
• Enterprise design
• Really smart systems
• Building business vocabularies
• Structured verbalization for business communication
• Applied semantics and concept analysis
• Re-engineering governance

Introducing ... General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)

Plus all you need to know about ...

• Business rules
• Forms of business guidance
• Fact models
• Applying SBVR
• Innovations in compliance
• More effective process models
• Pragmatic knowledge retention
• Rule management

Read a Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

Contents

Preface

The Business Rules Paradigm

• The Body Analogy
• The Organization of Business Operations
• About this Book

Part 1: The Key Ideas

Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About Structured Business Vocabularies

• About Noun Concepts and Terms that Represent Them
• About Connections Between Noun Concepts and Wordings that Represent Them
• Using Graphical Fact Models
• Closing the Communications Gap

Chapter 2. What You Need to Know About Business Rules

• The Basics of Business Rules
• Violation of Business Rules
• Decisioning

Chapter 3. What You Need to Know About Rulebook Management

• General Rulebook Systems (GRBS)
• Smart Governance
• Re-Engineering the Governance Process

Part 2: Business Vocabularies and Fact Models

Chapter 4. Verb-ish Models for Verbalization

• What It Means to be Verb-ish
• Issues That Can Only Be Handled Well Using Verbs
• More Ways in Which Fact Models are Verb-ish

Chapter 5. Creating a Fact Model

• Forming Definitions
• Capturing Fact Types and Roles

Chapter 6. Special-Purpose Elements of Structure

• Categories and Categorizations
• Properties
• Compositions — Whole–Part (Partitive) Structures
• Classifications

Part 3: Business Rules

Chapter 7. Business Rules

• What is a Business Rule?
• Behavioral Rules
• Definitional Rules
• More Things You Should Know
• Exceptions

Chapter 8. Business Rules and Events: Flash Points

• Multiple Events for Each Business Rule
• CRUD Events



Chapter 9. The Art of Business Rules

• Business Rule Reduction
• Business Rule Quality
• Decision Tables

Part 4: Enterprise Design

Chapter 10. Smart Architectures and the Point of Knowledge

• The Point of Knowledge
• Point-of-Knowledge Architecture

Chapter 11. Business Rules and Business Processes

• How Business Rules Relate to Business Processes
• Best Practices

Chapter 12. Envisioning Really Smart Systems: Dynamic, Thin, Throwaway Procedures

• Computational Models for Really Smart Systems
• Behavioral Rules in Really Smart Systems

Business Rules Manifesto
The Principles of Rule Independence

Glossary

References

Index

About Ron Ross, BRS, and BRCommunity

Publications

Books

• Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules
• Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (Third Edition)
• Principles of the Business Rules Approach

Free White Papers

• Decision Analysis Using Decision Tables and Business Rules