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Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach |
| Barbara von Halle (Knowledge Partners Inc., Mendham, New Jersey) |
| A step-by-step tutorial on how to execute the business rules approachfrom planning through implementation The business rules approach to application development represents a major evolution in software engineering and promises to be the most practical and desirable way to build systems. As a result, developers are in need of a how-to guide for implementing business rules in practice. Barbara von Halle fills this niche in the literature by providing a pragmatic introduction to the techniques and guidelines necessary for assembling systems using a business rules approach. Building on familiar methodologies such as structured systems analysis, information engineering, and object orientation, you will be able to easily add a business rules approach to existing practices.
Offering you the steps and techniques to fit your specific needs, this innovative book discusses: *Business rule basics, concepts, and methodologies *Getting started on and planning a business rule project *Initial requirements, rules, and data *Analyzing data, rules, and processes to guarantee that they are all of high quality *Implementing business rules systems using commercial-serviceoriented and data-changeoriented rules products *Introducing a Rule Track into a systems development methodology The companion Web site at | | |