UID:
almafu_9960073458402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st edition
ISBN:
9786613611338
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9781280581557
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1280581557
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9780123850522
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0123850525
Inhalt:
Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. A user guide to the SBVR specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate business vocab
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Writing Effective Business Rules: A Practical Method; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Is this book for you?; What this book is about; How this book is organized; How to use this book; Some typographical conventions; Chapter 1: The world of rules; 1.1. What is a business rule?; 1.1.1. Laws of physics; 1.1.2. Legislation, regulations, external standards, and best practices; 1.1.3. Rule or business rule?; 1.1.4. System rule or business rule?; 1.2. Why rules are important; 1.3. Best practice rule management; 1.4. The nature of the problem
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1.5. The solutions1.5.1. Constrained natural language; 1.5.1.1. The benefits of expressing rules in natural language; 1.5.1.2. The benefits of standardized vocabulary; 1.5.1.3. The benefits of standardized syntax; 1.5.2. The benefits of a rule repository; 1.5.3. The benefits of rule metadata; 1.6. Summary; Chapter 2: How rules work; 2.1. Operative rules; 2.2. Definitional (structural) rules; 2.3. Normative, prescriptive, and descriptive rules; 2.4. Business processes; 2.4.1. Characteristics of a business process; 2.4.2. How rules govern business processes; 2.5. Rules in user interfaces
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2.6. Rules governing electronic messages2.7. Rules ensuring database integrity; 2.8. Human activities other than business processes; 2.9. Summary; Chapter 3: A brief history of rules; 3.1. Implementing rules; 3.1.1. Rules in program code; 3.1.2. Decision tables; 3.1.3. Rule sets in data; 3.1.4. Database constraints; 3.1.5. Graphical user interface building tools; 3.1.6. Constraints in XML schemas; 3.1.7. Rules engines; 3.2. Documenting rules; 3.2.1. Rules in data models; 3.2.1.1. Entity-relationship models; 3.2.1.2. Object-role modeling; 3.2.1.3. UML; 3.2.2. Rules in business process models
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3.3. Recent developments3.3.1. Ross's rule taxonomy and diagramming notation; 3.3.2. Expressing rules in natural language; 3.3.2.1. Verbalization of ORM models; 3.3.2.2. My 1999 paper; 3.3.2.3. RuleSpeak; 3.3.2.4. Morgan's rule patterns; 3.3.2.5. Assertions; 3.3.3. The Business Rules Approach; 3.3.4. The Business Rules Manifesto; 3.3.5. The SBVR; 3.3.6. Rules and rule statements; 3.3.7. Rule statements and advice statements; 3.3.8. Types of rule statements; 3.3.8.1. Procedural and declarative rule statements; 3.3.8.2. Structural assertions, action assertions, and derivations
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3.3.8.3. Operative rule statements3.3.8.4. Definitional (structural) rule statements; 3.3.9. Types of advice statements; 3.3.9.1. Statements of advice of permission; 3.3.9.2. Statements of advice of possibility; 3.4. Summary; Chapter 4: Types of rules; 4.1. Rules governing the physical world; 4.1.1. Mandatory and optional attributes and relationships; 4.1.2. Single-valued and multi-valued attributes and relationships; 4.1.3. Variant and invariant attributes and relationships; 4.1.4. Constraints between attributes; 4.1.5. The impact of the physical world on an organization's rule book
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4.2. Legislation and regulations
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780123850515
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0123850517
Sprache:
Englisch
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