At A Glance

This 2-day course presents a comprehensive approach to the business process specification problem with a particular focus on the role of business rules and business processes. With techniques that have been developed over the last decade, a business solution specification framework is introduced that provides a long-term vision for moving organizations along the path to specification maturity encompassing integrated business process and business rules modeling.

Traditional business process analysis techniques only address a portion of a business’s behavior. By failing to capture business rules as separate from business processes these techniques prevent organizations from being able to respond to business rules changes separate from process changes. Since business rules typically change at a much higher rate than processes do, this can severely undermine an organizations ability to respond to business change.

Preserving the ability of business experts to maintain business processes and business rules depends upon a comprehensive approach to capturing and relating business processes, business rules, business event and business entities. In addition this approach must be aligned with an IT architecture that preserves the business expert’s ability to directly maintain these definitions or else the IT community will be forced to become custodians of business behavior thereby undercutting the business’s own control.

Learning Objectives

The intersection of business rules and business processes
Different techniques for capturing Business Rules
The essential role of business events
The role of Service Oriented Architectures in a BR / BPM world
Organizational Impacts of business rules and BPM
Issues with mining business rules from existing applications

Target Audience/Who Should Attend

Business Analysts involved in any type of BPM, SOA or business rules initiative
Managers of Business Analysts and Lead Business Analysts
Business & Software Architects

Unique Value of this Course

Focuses on how to radically improve the level of agility of an organization and allow it to create a sustainable competitive advantage
Identifies the inextricable links and dependencies between three different disciplines of implementing business and software change: business process, business rules and automation specifications
Identifies the necessary approaches and techniques necessary to embrace BPM and business rules
Discusses the importance of visual modeling and repositories throughout the business/IT lifecycle
Discusses how process orchestration and event-based architectures change the way organizations must engineer and model their business
Explains how business rules management must be integrated with the lifecycle of implementing business and software change

Reference Material Provided

Student course handbook
Relevant Business Analysis Framework how-to guides
Relevant white papers on managing business rules

IIBA Body of Knowledge & CBAP Certification Coverage

Course Availability

For onsite training information and detailed course outlines, call 773-227-7110 x106