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Example of a rule analysis

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I will try to do some specific rule analysis to illustrate some of the ABRD concepts. ABRD proposes to do the analysis activities as soon as possible and in parallel of the rule discovery, this helps to identify the issues, gaps, and clarify the rules under scope. So let imagine a claim processing application for a car accident. There are some injured persons who reported the accident claim and with some medical providers who send medical bills to the insurance company. One important step of the rule discovery is to clearly understand the business process. For this example we can outline the basic process for claim processing looks like the following diagram: In brown the decision points that are rule rich, so will be mapped to a rule set. Taking one rule from the adjudication decision point we will build a domain model: “ Ask for an expert audit if one of the treatments includes an emergency room treatment or an ambulance transfer done on a day after the accident. “ Claims a

Very good success with recent webseminars

Hi Thank to all of you to attempt my last web seminars on ABRD, SOA, and Effective rules writing. You were around 850 to register and close to 400 to attempt. This is showing an interest in best practices around business rules and their implementation. Feel free to ask me more questions by email, and I will start to respond on this blog and on the isis blog to the more common questions.