Business rules are the decision logic that quietly governs every process — who gets approved, which orders are rejected, what a discount may be — and most of them live only in people's heads and legacy code. Learn to extract, classify and document them into a catalogue that is explicit, testable and owned, so the logic survives the people who remember it.
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What you'll learn
- Explain what a business rule is and why undocumented rules become costly tribal knowledge
- Distinguish business rules from processes, requirements and implementation detail
- Classify rules into definitional and behavioural types and write them atomically
- Elicit hidden rules from processes, systems, documents and people
- Produce a Business Rules Catalogue that is explicit, testable and owned
Syllabus
Why Business Rules Matter, and What They Really Are
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What a business rule actually is
The Business Rules Catalogue Technique
Cataloguing rules so they are explicit and testable
Classifying and specifying rules atomically
Eliciting and Applying Business Rules
Eliciting hidden rules from processes, systems and people
Case study — the orders no one can explain
Making Business Rules Stick
Building your Business Rules Catalogue Template
Common traps and anti-patterns to avoid