Series #4
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Business Vocabulary: All About Defining Concepts and Creating Fact Models
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:
A shared, well-structured business vocabulary is seldom mentioned as a kind of requirement. But indeed it is – perhaps the most basic of all. Without it you cannot ensure the meaning and coherency (the ‘sense') of business rules and your whole set of requirements. Developing and managing a shared, well-structured business vocabulary requires capturing and shaping business concepts from the operational know-how of business workers. You need a blueprint for that knowledge – exactly what a fact model provides. This hands-on series teaches you the practical skills to be successful in one of the trickiest areas of business analysis. (And no, it's not about modeling data!)
Session 1. Introduction to Structured Business Vocabularies
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- The role of business vocabulary in a knowledge economy
- How ambiguity arises in business requirements and business rules
- Why data modeling is not enough
- What fact models are – verbalization patterns
- What every business analyst should know
Session 2. How to Analyze Business Concepts
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- What kinds of concepts
- Getting at the essence of meaning
- What terms really mean
- How you figure it out
- Why it matters
- Do's and don'ts
Session 3. How to Name and Define Business Concepts
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- What's in a name
- Problem words
- Guidelines for definitions
- Definitions vs. definitional rules
Session 4. The Elements of Concept Structure
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- Verb concepts
- Roles
- Unary verb concepts
- Categorization
- Classification
- Properties
- Whole-part structures
Session 5. How to Create a Concept Structure: Fact Models
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- What to avoid
- Developing fact models: Case studies
- Facts from business rules
Session 6. Techniques for Achieving Stability and Agility – Simultaneously
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- Fact models and business rules
- How and where to generalize
- Using business rules to represent current business practices
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.
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- 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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