IIBA New Jersey Chapter Event 

The Decision Model for Business Analysts 2013 presented by Barbara von Halle

The Decision Model (introduced to the public in 2009) is different from all other business rules approaches. THESE DIFFERENCES ARE NOT BY ACCIDENT.

A lot has happened since 2009. Decision models, created by Business Analysts, operate in production in corporations around the world, with and without supporting software. Some organizations established Decision Modeling centers of excellence. In 2013, the OMG will publish a document on Decision Model and Notation. (OMG stands for Object Management Group and is an IT standards group). This means that decision modeling is recognized as a legitimate discipline and emerging software market.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the purpose and progress of the emerging Object Management Group’s standards around Decision Modeling
• Learn about how effective Decision Models have been, by seeing real-world productivity and agility metrics
• Participate in an interactive translation of compliance requirements into a “normalized” decision model.
• Learn to navigate hidden, missing, ambiguous, and misleading requirements and recast them in decision model format.

About the Presenter:

Barbara von Halle, is Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners International, LLC. Co-inventor of “The Decision Model,” she co-authored her most recent book “The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology (Taylor&Francis 2009)”. As the fifth recipient of the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from International DAMA, she was inducted into the Data Management Hall of Fame in 1995 as a pioneer in data architecture and business rules.

Barbara co-authors a column in www.Tdan.com and www.ModernAnalyst.com and consults on KPI’s Decision Modeling, Requirements projects. She is a participant on the Object Management Group’s Decision Model Notation subcommittee.

Her first book, Handbook of Relational Database Design remains the corporate standard on relational database theory and practical usage for over 20 years. She was the most popular in Database Programming and Design magazine for most of the life of that magazine.