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WA1813 IBM/ILOG JRules 7.0 Practicum For Business Analysts Training and Courseware

Students should expect to spend 35% of their time listening to lecture and 65% on their time thinking, asking questions and hands-on implementation exercises. This practicum emphasizes in empowering the students to author business rules with confidence by understanding and leveraging the JRules BRMS. 

So if a Business Analyst is asking the question: How do I discover, analyze and author business rules with confidence using ILOG Jrules 7.0 BRMS? Then, this is the practicum for you!

Objectives

After this course completion a Business Analyst will have a good understanding on how to discover, analyze and author business rules using IBM/ILOG Jrules 7.0 BRMS.  An understanding of the business rule development processes and the various roles and responsibilities necessary for successful implementation of business rules project. The student will walk away with the following:

• Understanding of business rule life cycle (BRLC) processes.
• Analyze business process, identify decision points in use cases, extract raw rules
• Rule Analysis and best practice for rule naming convention
• Understanding of various roles and responsibilities and collaboration necessary between various parties.
• Author business rules with confidence using ILOG JRules BRMS

Audience

This course is appropriate for a broad audience, including Directors, Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business Architects, and Team Leads.

Prerequisites

• Experience with UML Modeling
• Experience with Use Cases

Duration

Five days.

Course Outline

1. What is Business Rules?

• Traditional approach to implementing business logic in applications
• What’s the challenge with traditional business application development from Business Users perspective?
• Business Rules approach of implementing business logic in applications
• Benefits and challenges of Business Rules Approach
• Business Rules Application Development Process

2. What IBM/ILOG JRules BRMS tools that can help in Business Rules Application Development?

• Rule Studio – for Java developers
• Rule Team Server – for Business Users
• Rule Scenario Manager – for rule testing
• Rule Execution Server – run time platform
• Roles and Responsibilities in Rule based development

3. What is Business Rules Modeling?

• Modeling for Business Rules
• Activities and Roles involved in the modeling process
• Expressing the Fact Model using UML

4. Discovering Business Rules

• Rule Discovery steps and guidelines

5. Business Rule Analysis

• Rule Analysis steps and guidelines

6. Business Fact Model

• Fact Model creation
• Using UML model to represent Business Object Model

7. Rule Project and Rule Artifacts

• What is a Rule Project
• Rule Artifacts and how to use them
• Creating modular rule project hierarchy
• Best Practice on Rule Project design

8. Business Object Model

• Purpose of BOM
• Dissecting a BOM
• Navigation and Action Phrases
• Customizing BOM
• Mapping BOM to XOM
• Best Practices on BOM implementation

9. Rule Team Server

• Introduction to RTS
• How to author rules in RTS

10. Rule Authoring

• Basics of authoring rules
• BAL
• Decision Table
• Decision Tree

11. Advanced Rule Authoring

• Advanced rule authoring
• Authoring rules with Microsoft Office 2007

12. Orchestration

• Why is ruleflow needed?
• How to create rule flow
• Best Practices on Rule Orchestration

13. Rule packing and deployment

• Packaging option
• Deployment strategies

14. Rule Managements & Governance

• Queries
• Rule Analysis
• Change management
• Rule Governance

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