B2T Training

• Course Length:
  1 day
• PDUs:
  14
• Public Pricing:
  $750
• Onsite Pricing:
  We offer discount pricing for onsite groups. Please contact us to discuss your specific course requirements, group size, and available training dates.

This course introduces business analysts to The Decision Model and provides a practical step- by-step approach for creating them as a new standard business analysis deliverable.   It is based on the book, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology by Barbara von Halle and Larry Goldberg ( Taylor & Francis, LLC, 2009).  Dr. Opher Etzion, Master Inventor, IBM, stated “one of the classic books of a new era of computing.”

The Decision Model is an unprecedented fast and efficient new method of eliciting, organizing, managing and testing business rules and logic. It provides business analysts with a new way to succeed where the current conventional approaches fall short. The Decision Model provides for unambiguous creation and sustainable maintenance of Business Logic, often with minimal IT intervention. It brings to the world of business rules and logic a well-defined structure with the rigor of integrity and normalization principles. It is similar in concept to what the Relational Model brings to the world of data.

This course teaches decision modeling essentials to new and experienced business analysts.  It explains why business decision modeling dramatically improves business processes as well as how to recast business policies, rules, and related statements into atomic pieces of business logic in Decision Model Notation.

Parts 1 and 2  use small simple exercises to illustrate the basic concepts of the model and how it simplifies business processes.  For the remainder of the course, attendees work through robust real-world workshops and apply decision-modeling techniques to a realistic sophisticated business situation.  Exercises and workshops can be done with paper and pencil.

Students will have a firsthand experience on how to create decision models using KPI’s decision modeling approach.  At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain to business and technical audiences the benefits and concepts of The Decision Model as a new kind of deliverable
• Show how The Decision Model simplifies Business Processes Models
• Discuss the important differences between The Decision Model and previous techniques
• Prioritize business decisions for decision models based on business impact
• Simplify business process models with decision models
• Build skeletal and detailed decision  models
• Conduct some validation of decision models against integrity principles
• Encourage business creativity in discovering optimum decision model content
• Identify new important roles for decision model projects
• Recognize decisions in different industries appropriate for decision models
• Conduct decision modeling sessions in iterative fashion
• Download KPI’s MS/Visio templates for decision model diagrams and MS/Office templates for Rule Family tables.

Intended Audience

This course is designed for business analysts, business stewards, project managers, system and enterprise architects involved with capture, management, and automation of business rules and logic.

Prerequisites

Attendees should purchase a copy of the book, The Decision Model: a Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology. It is recommended that students read the first two chapters prior to class.