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 Need to Define Your Business Rules. . .
 

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  Business Rules Definition JAD Sessions  
 

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Our Promise:

  • Data-driven project scoping
  • Precursor for data warehousing projects
  • Reusable business requirements across functional areas
  • Business rules-focused data modeling

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Business rules define acceptable corporate behavior in response to business events. They grant authority to act while imposing limits and conditions on how your people interact within their business environment. From an information system perspective, the rules define which processes, data, constraints and performance criteria are acceptable. Properly expressed, they are a set of formal business requirements.

 
 
  • Define business rules independent of technology decisions
  • Gather multitude of business rules in comparatively short time
  • Achieve consensus on critical business rules
  • Promote the use of business rules throughout the organization
  • Establish a baseline that facilitates future business changes
  • Identify data-critical components of projects early
  • Test the concept of business rules for your organization
 
  Business Process Owners, Business Managers, End Users, Data Administrators
 		  
  Business Analysts, Workflow Specialists, Information Technology Specialists
 		  
  Information Technology Managers, System Designers, Auditors, Security, Standard Representatives, Vendors, Quality Assurance, Contingency Planners, Human Resource Representatives, Trainers
 		  
  We offer experienced JAD facilitation teams (session leader and session analyst) with proven track records who work virtually or at your site to deliver the best possible result.  
 
  - Organizational mission, goals and objective statements
- Scope
- Known problems list
- Improvement suggestions
- Policy and procedure documentation
 		  
  Risk Assessment, Prioritization, Problem Definition, Problem / Symptom Reduction, Enterprise Modeling, Data Modeling, Affinity Analysis, CRUD Matrixes, Interviewing Techniques, Project Scoping Techniques, Requirements Definition
 		  
  Diagramming tools, Spreadsheets, Word processors, Upper CASE, Data dictionary  
 
 
 
 
All of the following business system analysis activities and deliverables can also be supported via e-Coaching
     
 
Each session is unique.
We create the actual session agenda
together with you based on your business needs.
The selection of the deliverables is a pre-session activity.
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Assess and revise business goals and strategies
Identify environmental and social dependencies
Prioritize business functions based on mission
Evaluate corporate policies and procedures
Define business problems and opportunities
Create high-level data model of major business entities
Evaluate impact of emerging technologies
Evaluate potential project scopes
Define first-cut project scopes and initial estimates
Scope project
Collect, analyze and document problem statements
Define benefits of solving problems
Define project objective
Generate new system requirements
Create problem statement/requirement statement matrix
Evaluate organizational standards and guidelines
 
 
 
  Scope statements and diagrams clearly delineate the business areas to be analyzed.
Critical success factors identify information needs and systems that are critical for business continuity.
High-level process models show business functions performed by organizational units and the internal and external information flows they produce and need.
Business function/system matrixes relate applications or automated functions to business functions.
List of assumptions that define the baseline against which each deliverable was established. If the baseline is changed, the validity of the other deliverables is at best questionable.
Post-session task assignments define the actions that individuals have to do to clarify open questions or resolve open issues.
Problem/opportunity statements define what the organization has to address.
Business rules document organizational decisions and directives.
A synopsis contains a short overview of the results of the entire session for the management review
The project objective relates this project to strategic corporate goals.
Validated and prioritized business requirements break down into functional, performance, constraining, informational and subjective requirements.
Open issues are unanswered questions and issues that must be resolved before continuing with the project.
  
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