MIS 2101 Lecture 3: MIS Notes - Week 3
23 May 2018
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Business Rule
• Rule that defines or constrains some aspect of business
• Always resolves to either true or false
• Intended to assert business structure or to control or influence the behavior of the
business
• Documenting the rules clearly and making sure that they don’t onflit is a valuale
activity
• Used to help the organization to better achieve goals, remove obstacles to market
growth, reduce costly mistakes, improve communications, comply with legal
requirements, and increase customer loyalty
• Tell an organization what it can do in detail, while strategy tells it how to focus the
business to optimize results
• Regardless of being written down or not, it is fairly common practice for organizations
to gather business rules
o One way to gather: organizations may choose to proactively describe their
business practices, producing a database of rules
▪ Rules are discovered and documented informally during initial stages
▪ Might lead to the definition of new rules
▪ Vulnerable to the creation of inconsistent or even conflicting business
rules within different organizational units, or within the same
organizational unit over time
o Other way to gather: allowing business rules to be documented during business
projects (less expensive and easier)
▪ Business Rules Methodology – defines a process of capturing business
rules in natural language, in a verifiable and understandable way
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