Writing Effective Business Rules

Graham C. Witt is an independent consultant with over 30 years of experience in assisting enterprises to acquire relevant and effective IT solutions. His clients include major banks and other financial institutions; businesses in the insurance, utilities, transport and telecommunications sectors; and a wide variety of government agencies. A former guest lecturer on Database Systems at University of Melbourne, he is a frequent presenter at international data management conferences.

• IntroductionChapter 1 – The world of rulesChapter 2 – How rules workChapter 3 – A brief history of rulesChapter 4 – Types of rulesChapter 5 – The building blocks of natural language rule statementsChapter 6 – Fact ModelsChapter 7 – How to write quality natural language rule statementsChapter 8 – An end-to-end rule management methodologyChapter 9 – Rule statement templates and subtemplates

"The book takes the study of business rules from theory into practice. This is important as it enables professionals to readily use business rules techniques in the workplace." --Glen Bell, Enterprise Architect and former Senior Manager, Strategy & Architecture, Australian Securities & Investment Commission"A valuable resource to the individual (and team) wanting to have an in-depth treatment on the how to's of business rules." --Keri Anderson Healy, Editor, BRCommunity.com