Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals

by Tony Morgan

Shows IT professionals how to specify more precisely and more effectively what their systems need to do in order to succeed. Author provides a thorough introduction to business rules, as well as a practical framework for integrating them into information systems. Softcover.

374 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Javier Rodriguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every company needs business rules and every employee applies several of them every day. I bet very few people are aware of this or even know what business rules are. When setting up or developing a system, the rules need to be configured or programmed for the relevant processes. It is best if the rules have been written down in a specification by experts in the relevant field.

This book describes in great detail what business rules are and how they relate to use cases and business processes. The author does this comparison in the first 50 pages. In this respect, it is like another explanation of my methodology. After that, he goes deep into the topic of business rules; how to identify them, how to describe them and how to manage them over time. It even shows how to formulate business rules in an interpretation-free way using UML or OCL.

For all those who want to study this subject extensively, this book is one of the best, if not the only one. I take several things from this book, except the description of the business rules. I agree with the author when he writes "to use business rules effectively, a wide audience needs to understand them ...". I doubt that this works effectively with UML or OCL.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

The third pillar. Read all three.