Monday | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Pre-Conference Tutorials Track

SESSION TITLE

Capturing Business Rules - From Facilitated Sessions, From Great Big Book and From Application Code

SPEAKER(s):

Gladys S.W. Lam Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC Publisher, BRCommunity.com

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: None

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Business Rules should come from the business. However, you cannot simply ask business people to come together and then multiply rules.

In this session, Ms. Lam will present a comprehensive approach for gathering business rules from business experts using facilitated sessions. Ms. Lam will also discuss the steps required to harvest rules from great big source documents and share her experience on reverse engineering business rules from application code. This session discusses:

• How to coordinate facilitated sessions to collect business rules, including preparation, objectives, agenda and documentation for each session
• The four primary business model deliverables – Policy Charter, Workflow, Fact Model, and Business Rules
• Techniques for capturing, presenting and documenting the deliverables
• A pragmatic way of harvesting rules from great big source documents
• The steps for reverse engineering rules from application code
• The differences between process rules and decisioning rules
• Lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Gladys S.W. Lam is Principal of Business Rule Solutions (BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company world-wide in business rules, decisioning, and related methodology, publications, consulting services and training. She is the co-creator of the Proteus®, the BRS methodology for business analysis, decisioning and business rules, which is used by companies world-wide. Ms. Lam actively leads business rules and decisioning projects of all sizes across a variety of industries.

Ms. Lam speaks internationally at conferences and other professional events. She co-presents public seminars through AttainingEdge. She is also Executive Director of the Business Rules Forum, the premier international conference on business rules and decisioning.