Writing effective business rules a practical method Graham Witt.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index

The world of rules -- How rules work -- A brief history of rules --
Types of rules -- The building blocks of natural language rule statements -- Fact models -- How to write quality natural language rule statements -- An end-to-end rule management methodology -- Rule statement templates and subtemplates

Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemm
a of system design: defining business rules either in natural language,
intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine inst
ructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to
meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive a
nalysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unamb
iguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated.
A user guide to the SBVR [Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business
Rules] specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate busine
ss vocabulary and generate quality rule statements using the appropriat
e templates and terms from the vocabulary. The resulting rule statement
s can be reviewed by business stakeholders for relevance and correctnes
s, providing for a high level of confidence in their successful impleme
ntation. A complete set of standard templates for rule statements and t
heir component syntactic elements A rigorous approach to rule statement
construction to avoid ambiguity and ensure consistency. A clear explan
ation of the way in which a fact model provides and constrains the rule
statement vocabulary A practical reader-friendly user guide to the tho
se parts of the SBVR specification that are relevant to rule authoring-
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