Business Rule Concepts - Getting to the Point of Knowledge

By Ronald G. Ross

Is your current approach really working?Are you sure you are addressing the right problems in the right ways?Take a few hours to read about the most fundamental innovation in business operations and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094104906X
• ISBN13: 9780941049061
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Business Rule Solutions Inc
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is for IT professional too

This book is not only for business analysts, but also for IT professionals! If you want to build more business friendly systems, read this book!

A must have Reference for Business Analysts

I have been practicing the Business Rules Approach for the last 6 years and Ron Ross' 3rd Edition of Business Rule Concepts is a must have reference book for every Business Analyst. It is a great introductory and reminder of the core concepts to following and implementing the Business Rules Approach. I highly reccommend that this book accompany training on the Business Rules Approach from BR Solutions, as hands on activities and talking with the instructors face to face really help with integrating the concepts discussed in this book. I don't believe this book is meant as a how-to guide on implementing a Business Rules Approach all the way through IT implementation as another reviewer mentioned as a fault. Although, that is an excellent idea for a subsequent book!

Strategic Advantage

We have been applying the concepts of a business rules approach for well over five years and consider the principles shared in this book a strategic advantage to us in the market place. This is the must have handbook for those who truly want to bridge the communication gap between customers, business and IT. This should be standard reference book on every business analyst and architects desk. I recommended this book for those who are serious about reducing the cost of IT systems and returning value to the business

Essential Reading for Anyone Who Wants to Understand Business Rules

In the spirit of full disclosure I will admit I have been a fan of Ron Ross's work since I first took a course with Ron and Gladys Lam some years ago (you should take the course too). It took my team at work a long time to understand and begin to employ a structured business vocabulary as an essential part of business rule and requirements development. This 3rd Edition offers more substance, clarity and development of the underlying business rule concepts then the previous edition, is better organized, and since the numerous footnotes in the previous edition have either been eliminated or incorporated into the body of the work, reads easier and faster. We used the 2nd edition as material for training our team but there remained some outstanding questions and gaps in our understanding. This 3rd edition does much to close those gaps and it will become the basis for our continued training and development of our methodology.

A brilliant and easy to understand business rules vision.

Ross presents the underlying concepts of using business rules as a fundamental component of system development (or just running the business!) This is an easy book to read. It presents the concepts so clearly that even Dilbert's boss could understand it and act correctly. His courses are also well worth attending.All that is missing is how to build and implement an architecture that supports this vision (though the basic rules-based features that it must support are discussed).