A Cycle Approach for Business Rule Development
The Agile Business Rule Development methodology details all the different activities to develop a rule set, from rule discovery to rule set deployment and maintenance. We can group the set of activities into five groups. Those groups will be used to build an iterative approach to the development: Rule Discovery Rule Analysis Rule Authoring Rule Validation Rule Deployment The following diagram represents how the five groups of activities can be executed in a process flow using loops to implement short iterations. The rule set will grow following these cycles to get closer to the outcome expected by the business. Figure 1 Rule Set Development Life Cycle In the first loop, between Discovery and Analysis, the team harvests the rules from the business process description, the subject matter expert knowledge, legal documentation, use cases or any other source. This loop represents the first phase of the rule set construction. 1.1.1 Cycle 1: Harvesting This phase is lim...