Series #3
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Decision Analysis and Decision Tables: All About Modeling Decisions
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:
Decisions are choices made in day-to-day business operations. Such decisions are highly repetitive – they might be taking place hundreds or thousands of times per day, per hour, or even per minute. They are predictable and well-structured in terms of the outcomes they produce. New, highly pragmatic techniques have emerged in just the past several years for top-down decision analysis. The results are ultimately organized into decision tables, a set of techniques all Business Analysts should know.
Session 1. Introduction to Decision Analysis
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- What decisions and decision logic are about
- Decision rules vs. behavioral rules
- The elements of decisions
- Identifying cases
- Question, considerations, outcomes, and exceptions (Q-COE)
- How to establish and refine decision scope
- Keep decision logic as simple as possible: Slim decision logic
Session 2. Analyzing Decision Structures Using Question Charts (Q-Charts™)
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- Independent sub-decisions
- Diagramming decision structures
- Decision dependencies
- Shaping and refining the question
- How business motivation shapes the question and outcomes
- Metrics
Session 3. Introduction to Decision Tables for Decision Rules
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- How to set up the table
- How you can test if the decision logic is complete
- Defaults
- Restrictions on criteria and outcomes
- Missing considerations
- How you wrap it up
- Best practices
Session 4. Decision Tables, Business Process Models, and Business Vocabulary
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- Revisiting business processes
- What your business processes should not do
- What your decision tables should not do
- The hard part: What the terms mean (semantics)
- How decision tables relate to fact models
- How to keep your decision tables and business vocabulary in sync
Session 5. Designing Natural, High-Quality, Anomaly-Free Decision Tables
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- Alternative formats
- When you should use the traditional format
- Completeness, subsumption and conflicts
- Dangers of the traditional format
- General rules and single point of change
- Pre-emption and dependencies
Session 6. Preparing for Implementation of Decision Tables: System Design Issues
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- Next steps
- Creating Q&A-based structured dialogs
- Developing a scheme for implementation
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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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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