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Business Analyst Skills for IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0

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Training Path for Business Analyst Skills for IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0 Do you need to author rules? Do you need to capture rules? WB301 Classroom (5 days) Capturing and Authoring Business Rules with IBM WebSphere ILOG... WB303 Classroom (2 days) Authoring Business Rules in IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server... WB302 Classroom (3 days) Capturing Business Rules with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0 Do you need to both capture and author 
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Role
The business analyst is focused on the customer’s needs, as well as on the development organization’s ability to fulfill those needs with a software solution. The business analyst often is a line-of-business departmental expert who defines and tests business rules and policies.

The business analyst identifies customer and business needs, captures requirements and creates business use cases. The analyst may model the business use cases using IBM WebSphere Business Modeler and look for areas of optimization, especially those that can be automated by software. In addition, the business analyst can capture and author business rules using IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules which will be included in the business application. Once the application has been constructed by the application developers, the business analyst may use IBM WebSphere Business Monitor to monitor the performance and cost of the business process to identify opportunities for improvements and further optimizations.

Assumptions
It is assumed that the individual following this roadmap has basic skills in the following areas:

  • Experience with identifying, defining, and testing business policies and rules
  • Basic understanding of business models

Objectives
After completing this training, students should be able to:

  • Identify the key user roles involved in a business rule project and the associated tasks
  • Define and implement a business object model
  • Turn business policies into rules
  • Use Rule Team Server to create and edit business rules
  • Develop appropriate condition and action statements when writing rules
  • Use Business Action Language (BAL) appropriately in various parts of rules
  • Use business vocabulary associated with the underlying business object model when writing rules
  • Create and edit decision tables in Rule Team Server
  • Use the query features to locate, analyze, and change rules
  • Use Rule Team Server features that support rule authoring, e.g. versions, rule history, smart views
  • Explain governance issues and identify JRules features that support rule governance