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Business Decisions or Rules - Why not Both? The Views of Three Decision Modelling Experts

Hall, Oskar LU (2018) INFM10 20181
Department of Informatics
Abstract
IS analysis and design processes rely on models for communicating requirements between business and IS professionals. Modelling standards are universally recognisable notations/languages for constructing these models. An emerging approach is to capture business decisions intended for decision automation in models. The Object Management Group has recently released a standard for this purpose, the Decision Model and Notation (DMN). The concept of business decisions relies heavily on business rules for defining decision outcomes. Object Management Group also have a standard for business rules, SBVR. However, there is no formal approach defined for integrating SBVR rules in DMN, even though they are published by the same organisation. This... (More)
IS analysis and design processes rely on models for communicating requirements between business and IS professionals. Modelling standards are universally recognisable notations/languages for constructing these models. An emerging approach is to capture business decisions intended for decision automation in models. The Object Management Group has recently released a standard for this purpose, the Decision Model and Notation (DMN). The concept of business decisions relies heavily on business rules for defining decision outcomes. Object Management Group also have a standard for business rules, SBVR. However, there is no formal approach defined for integrating SBVR rules in DMN, even though they are published by the same organisation. This thesis investigated the relationship between business rules and business decisions through SBVR and DMN. Three interviews with decision modelling experts directly or indirectly involved in the development of DMN were conducted. Results indicate rules and decisions are kept in different standards because of a separation of concerns as rules and decisions have separate roles rules and tries to appeal to different audiences. Combining the two concepts in one standard, either through integration or merging would create unnecessary complexity, depending on the organisational level where it is applied. (Less)
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author
Hall, Oskar LU
supervisor
organization
course
INFM10 20181
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Business Decisions, Business Rules, DMN, SBVR, IS Standards
report number
INF18-001
language
English
id
8950588
date added to LUP
2018-06-18 14:57:54
date last changed
2018-06-18 14:57:54
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  abstract     = {{IS analysis and design processes rely on models for communicating requirements between business and IS professionals. Modelling standards are universally recognisable notations/languages for constructing these models. An emerging approach is to capture business decisions intended for decision automation in models. The Object Management Group has recently released a standard for this purpose, the Decision Model and Notation (DMN). The concept of business decisions relies heavily on business rules for defining decision outcomes. Object Management Group also have a standard for business rules, SBVR. However, there is no formal approach defined for integrating SBVR rules in DMN, even though they are published by the same organisation. This thesis investigated the relationship between business rules and business decisions through SBVR and DMN. Three interviews with decision modelling experts directly or indirectly involved in the development of DMN were conducted. Results indicate rules and decisions are kept in different standards because of a separation of concerns as rules and decisions have separate roles rules and tries to appeal to different audiences. Combining the two concepts in one standard, either through integration or merging would create unnecessary complexity, depending on the organisational level where it is applied.}},
  author       = {{Hall, Oskar}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Business Decisions or Rules - Why not Both? The Views of Three Decision Modelling Experts}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}