Series #1
May 15 - 17, 2012
Business Analysis with Business Rules: From Strategy to Requirements
by Ronald G. Ross and Gladys S.W. Lam
Now you can learn state-of-the-art techniques from the world-leaders in the comfort of your own work desk!
Description:
This highly pragmatic series shows you how to achieve unparalleled success in business analysis. It details the innovative techniques you need for a business-driven approach, and how to apply each for dramatic improvements in the quality of business requirements. Find out how you can achieve simpler, smarter process models, and a huge boost in business agility. The innovative approach taught in this seminar has proven itself time and time again in achieving true business solutions. It enables you to transition smoothly into system requirements and design, and then into successful roll-out of a complete and highly effective business system.
Special Offer:
Save 10% when you use discount code EARLY12 when registering for your online training. This offer expires on May 1, 2012
Session 1. Introduction to Business Analysis with Business Rules
Next Session: May 15, 2012 @ 10:30am - 12:00noon (ET)
- What it means to be business-driven
- The role of business rules
- The importance of factoring
- The importance of audience
- The art of business re-think
- Business model vs. system model
- Steps: developing the business model
- About the pattern questions for capturing business rules
- Ensuring complete business alignment
Session 2. Creating a Strategy for the Business Solution
Next Session: May 15, 2012 @ 3:30pm - 5:00pm(ET)
- How strategy is structured
- Steps: developing the Policy Charter
- Identifying and addressing business risks
- Where business policies and business rules fit
- Developing and refining the business tactics and business policies
- Looking for holes in the business solution
- Getting ready for modeling business processes
- General pattern questions for harvesting business rules
- Completion checklist for the Policy Charter
Session 3. Creating Business Process Models and Harvesting the Business Rules
Next Session: May 16, 2012 @ 10:30am - 12:00noon (ET)
- What is business process from a business perspective
- Developing business process models with business rules
- Behavioral rules vs. decision rules
- Where operational business decisions fit
- How to avoid gridlock, meltdown and other pitfalls
- How to handle special scenarios
- Specific pattern questions for harvesting business rules from business process models
- Steps: developing the process model
- Completion checklist for business process models
Session 4. Creating a Business Vocabulary and Harvesting the Business Rules
Next Session: May 16, 2012 @ 3:30pm - 5:00pm(ET)
- Concept analysis: How to figure out what terms really mean
- Guidelines for definitions -- do's and don'ts
- The concept model: Developing a structured business vocabulary
- Visualization
- What to avoid
- Specific pattern questions for harvesting business rules from the concept model
- Steps: developing the process model
- Completion checklist for the concept model
Session 5. Completing the Business Model: Business Milestones, More Business Rules, Metrics and Rule Management
Next Session: May 17, 2012 @ 10:30am - 12:00noon (ET)
- Developing business milestones: State transition from the business perspective
- Specific pattern questions for harvesting business rules from business milestone models
- Steps: developing the business milestones
- Completion checklist for business milestones
- Specific pattern questions for harvesting business rules for locations, links, roles and work products
- Developing violation responses for behavioral rules
- Completing the business model
- Metrics, policy performance and performance indicators
Session 6. Creating Business Requirements from the Business Model
Next Session: May 17, 2012 @ 3:30pm - 5:00pm(ET)
- Using the business model to develop the system model
- Steps: developing the system model
- What the system design must support: ability statements
- Developing ability statements
- Business rule management
- Business alignment – proven results
General Information
Live Sessions
- Each Series: 6 sessions
- Each Session: 1.5 hours
- Schedule: 2 sessions per day - AM and PM
- over 3 consecutive days
- Times: Morning: 10:30am - 12:00noon (ET)
- Afternoon: 3:30pm - 5:00pm (ET)
- After-Class: Instructors available for one hour after each
- session for Q&A and interaction on exercises.
- Prices: Full series of six sessions: $795 / connection
- Individual sessions: $175 / connection
- Attendee Limitations: There is no limit on the number of participants
- who may join in over your connection.
Rules of Participation
- Record or re-transmit the sessions.
- Connect remote participants in the sessions from your location.
- Copy, reproduce or distribute training materials except for attendees actually attending the sessions at your location.
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Benefits for You and Your Company
Easy: A phone line and computer with access to the Internet is all you need. Just dial in, enter your access code, and click to the website. Follow along with hand-outs provided in advance.
Convenient: No airlines. No travel. No time out of the office. Now you can learn state-of-the-art techniques from the world leaders in the comfort of your own work space.
Affordable: Your costs are a fraction of the normal travel and registration fees for public or on-site seminars. Do the math!
Unlimited Participation: Put a speakerphone on your end so as many people as you want can listen in – there's no extra cost. Use a projector for the video portion too if you like.
Team Training: Use these sessions as a cost-effective, time-efficient means to train supervisors, managers and staff on key points in a manner they will remember and act on.
Effective: Our sessions give you pragmatic techniques you can start to use as soon as you're off the phone.
High-Impact: Fast paced and highly focused. No wasted time – perfect to fit your busy schedule.
Self-Directed: Attend an entire series or any single session – or some combination – it's your choice.
Online Training
Online Training Series
- Series #1: Business Analysis with Business Rules: From Strategy to Requirements
- Series #2: Business Rule Analysis: Practitioner MasterClass Series
- Series #3: Decision Analysis and Decision Tables: All About Modeling Decisions
- Series #4: Business Vocabulary: All About Defining Concepts and Creating Fact Models
Instructors
Ronald G. Ross
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.
Gladys S.W. Lam
Gladys S.W. Lam is a world-renowned authority on applied business rule techniques. She is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company world-wide in business rules and decision analysis. Business Rule Solutions provides methodology, publications, consulting services, and training. Ms. Lam is co-creator of Proteus®, the BRS methodology. She is Co-Founder of BRCommunity.com, a vertical community for professionals and home of Business Rules Journal. She co-authored Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules, with Ronald G. Ross, an IIBA® sponsored handbook on business analysis with business rules.
Ms. Lam is widely known for her lively, pragmatic style. She speaks internationally at conferences and other professional events. She co-presents public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com). She is also Executive Director of the Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference, which includes the Business Rules Forum and the Business Analysis Forum, the official conference of the IIBA®.
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