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2-Day Seminar
Business Rules and Decision Analysis Masterclass
Register On-line:
26-27 March 2012,
London
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- Overview
- Learning Objectives
- Seminar Outline
- Audience
- Speaker Biographies
- Testimonials
- Seminar Fee
- Multiple Seminar Booking Discount and Group Booking Discount
- Hotel Venue and Accommodation
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Overview
Do your processes always produce correct and consistent results? If not the
problem probably lies with your business rules and decision logic. Business
Analysts need the right techniques to fix these problems - process models, use
cases, data models and other requirement techniques just don't do the job.
Business Rules are criteria used to judge the correctness of business behavior and to make operational business decisions. Many Business Analysts have not been exposed to the well-formed, in-depth body of best practices and standards developed over the past decade for this area. These techniques have proven invaluable in developing better business requirements. This seminar explains how business rules can be expressed, analyzed, validated, and managed as easily and as quickly as possible.
Decisions are choices made in day-to-day business operations. Such decisions are highly repetitive - they might be taking place hundreds or thousands of times per day, per hour, or even per minute. They are predictable and well-structured in terms of the outcomes they produce. New, highly pragmatic techniques have emerged in just the past several years for top-down decision analysis. The results are ultimately organized into decision tables, a set of technique all Business Analysts should know.
This hands-on workshop gives you essential tools that can help you achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in business capabilities. The result is simpler, smarter process models and a huge boost in business agility. Learn applied techniques from the recognized world leader in the field.
- Conduct smarter, more effective business analysis
- Identify and analyze decisions in business processes
- Use the most effective techniques to harvest business rules
- Write clear, business-friendly rule statements
- Create robust decision tables
- Validate business rules and decision logic with business people
- Identify anomalies and correct them early
- Perform concept analysis
- Develop a structured business vocabulary (fact model)
- Develop pragmatic visualizations
- Establish comprehensive traceability for your business rules
- Develop a successful rule management approach
What Business Rules and Decision Analysis Are About
- Why business rules
- What business rules are, and are not
- How decision analysis fits in
- What skills you need to capture business rules effectively
- Business rules vs. business processes
- What every business analyst needs to know
Concept Analysis
- What terms really mean and how you figure it out
- Guidelines for definitions
- Do's and don'ts
Workshop
Fact Models: Developing a Structured Business Vocabulary
- Visualization
- Developing verb concepts - creating a verbal blueprint for know-how
- Using business rules for current business practices
- What to avoid
- Facts from rules
Class Exercises
Tips and Tricks
Rule Reduction
- Basic principles for rule analysis
- Rules vs. facts
- Business policy and governance
- Traceability for the business - not just IT
Tips and Tricks
Expressing Your Business Rules
- What to avoid and why
- Business policies vs. practicable rules vs. automated rules
- Eliminating ambiguity
- Guidelines
- Addressing exceptions
Class Exercises
Challenging Your Rules
- Validation and verification
- Forms of redundancy
- Equivalences, subsumptions, conflicts, block-outs, and other anomalies
- Rule quality
Class Exercises
Tips and Tricks
What Decisions and Decision Logic are About
- Behavioral rules versus business decision rules
- Understanding your problem space
- The techniques you need to know
Decision Analysis
- What decision analysis is
- The anatomy of decisions
- Shaping the question
- Cases and considerations
- Outcomes and exceptions
- Establishing and refining scope
- How to keep decision logic as simple as possible
Workshop
The Structure of Decisions
- Independent sub-decisions
- Diagramming decision structures
- Question Charts (Q-Charts™)
Decision dependencies - Refining the questions
- Decisions vs. processes
Class Exercises
Tips and Tricks
Decision Tables: The Basics
- How to set up decision tables
- Revisiting business processes
- Is the decision logic is complete?
- How business vocabulary fits in
- Defaults - good, bad and ugly
- Restrictions on criteria and outcomes
- Missing considerations
- Best practices
Workshop
Decision Tables: Sharpening Your Analysis Skills
- Alternative formats
- When you should use the traditional format
- Completeness, subsumption and conflicts
- Dangers of the traditional format
- General rules and single point of change
- Fixed values and pre-emptions
Tips and Tricks
Class Exercises
- Business Analysts
- Business Rule Analysts
- Business Architects
- Enterprise Architects
- Systems Analysts
- Decision Support
- Change Management
- Business Improvement Managers
- IT Managers
- IT Consultants
- Project Managers
This workshop is relevant for all business and IT professionals seeking order-of-magnitude improvements in their company's processes.
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Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. He gives popular public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com) and in Europe though IRM-UK (www.IRMUK.co.uk). Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers, "The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World" and the "Business Rules Manifesto". He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR. Mr. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC. At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business analysis and rules methodology, including the popular RuleSpeak® (www.RuleSpeak.com). Mr. Ross is the author of nine professional books. His newest are: Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules with Gladys S.W. Lam (2011, An IIBA® Sponsored Handbook) and Business Rule Concepts (2009), a 3rd edition of his ever-popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook. |
Seminar Fee
£1,095 + VAT (£219) = £1,314
Hotel Venue and Accommodation
26-27 March 2012
Venue: The DoubleTree Hilton
DoubleTree by Hilton London-West End
Southampton Row
WC1B 4BH London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7242 2828
Fax: +44 (0)20 7831 9170
Email: info@dtlondonwestend.com
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London Accommodation: IRM UK in association with JP Events Ltd has arranged special discounted rates at all venues and at other hotels nearby the venue. Please visit the JP Events website for further information.
E-mail: info@jpetem.com Tel +44 (0)84 5680 1138 Fax +44 (0)84 5680 1139.
In-House Training
If you require a quote for running
this course in-house, please contact us with the following details:
- Subject matter and/or speaker required
- Estimated number of delegates
- Location (town, country)
- Number of days required (if different from the public course)
- Preferred date
Please contact:
Jeanette Hall
E-mail: jeanette.hall@irmuk.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8866 8366
Fax: +44 (0)1923 828 770
Speaker: Ronald Ross
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Multiple Seminar Booking Discount
Attend more than one of our seminars and you will be entitled to the following discounts:
- 2nd course 10%
- 3rd course 15%
- 4th course 20%
- 5th+ course 25%
Group Booking Discount
20% discount for 5 or more registrations made at the same time.
We regret that this offer cannot be used in conjunction with the Multiple Seminar Discount or any other discount.
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