This article by Barbara Halle and Larry Goldberg introduces the Decision Model as an emerging new business asset of high business value, and how the business may best capitalize on that value. The audience for this article includes business leaders, business architects, requirements analysts, use case modelers, business process modelers, and agile developers. (9 pages)
This article by Barbara Halle and Larry Goldberg explains how the Decision Model revolutionizes today's business processes and requirements management. The audience for this article includes business architects, requirements analysts, use case modelers, business process modelers, and agile developers. This article establishes the Decision Model, not only as a new business asset, but also as a new requirements artifact and an imperative element in decision-aware business processes. (15 pages)
The Decision Model can shorten the testing and development cycle drastically. That's because the Decision Model separates the business logic from other concerns and therefore test cases can be driven directly from the content of a Decision Model. Test cases can be developed for individual Rule Families within a Decision Model or for part or all of a Decision Model. The Decision Model also assists in scenario testing for a business process. The target audience for this article is business people, business architects, developers (agile and conventional), and testers. (9 pages)
The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology
by Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg
The Decision Model adds simplicity and rigor to the way we view, leverage, and automate business rules in much the same way the Relational Model did for data. In "The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology" authors Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg have created a reference guide that will change the game between business managers and IT professionals while delivering the foundation for a new generation of software. Their book provides a model of business logic with a well-defined structure and three forms of normalization, structural and integrity principles.
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