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ArticlesSlay by the Rules


September 1997 / Inbox / Slay by the Rules

"Play by the Rules" (June) was an excellent overview of business rules. I work with clients applying business rules to system specification and design, and I've found that this approach works for developing new systems as well as for addressing data-quality problems in data marts/warehouses.

Business rules will be next in the series of ideas of how to slay the software dragon. This idea will succeed because it can put business people in the driver's seat, shifting the focus away from technologists. Previous ideas, such as object orientatio n, didn't deliver changeable systems that met requirements. Just look at the Unified Modeling Language (UML) spec to see why.

Neville Haggerty
Compedia, Inc.
Portsmouth, NH

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