Business Rules Catalog
Business Rules Catalog
the
business (re)engineering
requirements work product that documents the
business rules of the
customer organization’s current business
enterprise
The typical objectives of a business rules catalog are
to:
Provide a single location for the specification, storage,
and maintenance of the business rules.
The typical benefits of a business rules catalog are:
It provides an organizational structure for the business
rules that makes it easier for stakeholders to locate and
understand them.
It provides a basis for the development of a consensus
between the business domain experts and the stakeholders that
must use the business rules (e.g., requirements engineers and
testers).
The typical contents of a business rules catalog are:
Overview of Business Rules:
Importance of Business Rules
Types of Business Rules
Sources of Business Rules
Responsibilities for Business Rules
Business Rules:
Calculation Rules
Logical Assertions:
Logical Preconditions
Logical Postconditions (Inferences)
Logical Invariants
Physical Facts
Triggering Events
Conclusion Appendices:
Process for Creating and Maintaining Business
Rules
Major Issues
TBDs
Assumptions
The typical stakeholders of a business rules catalog
are:
Producers:
Evaluators:
Approvers:
Maintainers:
Users:
Customer Organization , which uses it to understand
and communicate the business rules of their
business.
Requirements Team , which uses it as an input to
application vision statements and system requirements
specifications.
A business rules catalog is typically produced during the
following phases:
A business rules catalog typically can be started if the
following preconditions hold:
The typical inputs to a business rules catalog include:
Work Products:
Stakeholders:
Business rule catelogues may be in the form of databases,
spreadsheets, or documents.
Business catelogues are living work products that are
developed incrementally and iteratively in parallel with
other work products.
This work product should typically produced during the
business strategy phase of a
business reengineering project However, it may also be
either created or updated during the initiation phase of an
application development project .
Focus on the business issues, rather than the technical
issues.
The business rules catalog is typically constrained by the
following conventions:
Content and Format Standard
MS Word Template
XML DTD
Inspection Checklist
Example Business Rules
Catalog
