Logical, practical, methodical rule principles and best practices are key to a successful business rules project — as is building the right team. Drawing on real life examples from 17+ years’ experience working with business rules customers around the world, this session will look at important “do’s” and “don’ts” for a successful rules project — not only from a rules best practice perspective, but also from a people perspective. Even with the best rule practices, the business rules won’t write themselves! What qualities and skills should you look for when searching for a great business rules person?
Learning Objectives:
- Learning rule best practices that have helped others
- Applying common sense to your business rules
- Understanding important skills for successful rule teams
One of the biggest challenges facing organizations is ensuring that projects and initiatives are effective in implementing business strategy and realizing business goals. Instead of launching from a roadmap, projects are often initiated when a customer defines a solution to a perceived problem. In many cases, no effort is made to tie the solution back to business strategy or goals.
By combining business architecture practices with enterprise business analysis skills, business analysts can add value to their customers by mapping problems/solutions to enterprise capabilities and strategies prior to developing requirements. This practice ensures that solutions move business strategy forward and that all activities (requirements, design, testing, etc.) in an initiative map back to a business capability or strategy.
Learning Objectives:
- The best source of requirements is business objectives and outcomes
- All requirements should tie back to the objectives/outcomes
- Blending business architecture practices into your BA toolbox allows BAs to ensure Business Strategy stays central to all initiatives
Being data-driven means the company uses data to harness insights across its organization and then turns those insights into action to create competitive advantage and more productive processes. What does it take to turn your organization into a data-driven company?
Believe it or not, it is not JUST about the data. You need to be an integral part of the data-driven journey in your organization. This presentation prepares you for that role. It also explains how being data-driven impacts current operation, presents the five key components in successfully becoming a data-driven organization, and discusses the necessary infrastructure, techniques and tools.
No matter where your organization currently is its journey, find out how you can play a key role and accelerate its success.
Learning objectives:
- What being data-driven is about
- What else is needed beyond just data
- What practical steps you can take to add value in each of the 5 maturity levels of a data-driven organization
- How business policies, business rules and business vocabulary play in building a data-driven organization