This document discusses decision modeling, governance, and rule harvesting. It provides an overview of decision modeling and how it can improve time to market while ensuring business logic is complete, consistent and current. It also discusses the importance of governance and defines it as the steps to extract, model, deploy and manage business rules over their lifecycle. Finally, it covers rule harvesting which is the process of identifying business logic in applications and expressing it as rules and decisions.

1. From Rules to Decisions,
Harvesting and Governance:
A Recipe for Consistent
Agility Ryan Trollip
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Practice Director,
Decision Management
Fred Simkin
Solution Architect
Dave Heckeroth
Business Rules Lead
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2. Best-in-class architects and
specialty experts:
BPM, Integration, Digital
Experience, Security, Testing,
Business Analytics and Enterprise
Prolifics at a Glance
Defect Removal Efficiency Content Management
91%
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Annual Growth Rate
19%
Employees
Worldwide
1,500
Global Presence
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India
20+
Technology
Accelerators
550+
Technical
Certifications
Over 10 Technology and Solutions
Awards since 2009 including
Business Agility, Customer
Integration and Digital Experience
Over 150 global customers
are currently Fortune
1000 companies
97%
Rate of Repeat Engagements*
Years in
Business
35+
Offices
14
Awards
Technology Expertise
Fortune 1000
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3.  The Story
 Decision Modeling
 Governance
 Rule Harvesting (using a COBOL KA approach)
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4.  Decision Modeling is the methodology that will be applied to the process of
modeling, testing deploying, reporting on, and reengineering institutional
business logic to ensure that the rules derived from that logic are complete,
consistent, correct and current. It provides a structure that can be shared
and understood by both the business and IT, facilitating communication and
governance and diminishing risk
 Governance constitutes the defined and enforced steps that will be
followed in the extraction of the business logic, engineering it into business
rules and decisions, deploying and testing, moving the decisions into
production and manage their total life cycle
 Rule harvesting is the process of identifying and extracting business logic,
which is exists in applications, institutional policies practices and
procedures, and domain experts throughout the enterprise, so that it can be
effectively expressed, managed, maintained, and shared throughout the
organization
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 What is a Decision ?
 Where are the Rules and Decisions ?
 Why do you need Decision Modeling ?
 How do you implement Decision Modeling ?

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 In the beginning was AI
 John McCarthy and Co. discover “its about rules”
 Feigenbaum goes Commercial
 The Problem with Inferencing is…
 Opportunistically Speaking
 Creating a Sequence
 Perez and Rappaport:Nexpert/FICO Blaze-Knowledge Islands
 Lukose: ART*Enterprise –Phases
 ILOG-Projects and Ruleflows
 You talkin to me ???
 Everybody doin there own thang
 The Big Idea!
 Let’s make a Decision
 What we have here is a failure to communicate
 Models (some assembly required)

7.  A container for organizing the business logic within a
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particular task in the business process
 An end point or final decision for a chain of business logic
 A set of organizing principals/guidelines/standards for
identifying, extracting, modeling, and testing business logic
within an application process

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9. Why do we need Decision Modeling ?
With decision modeling development
collapses to the minimum, speeding
up time to market
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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics In a classic development cycle, there are extensive
handoffs from each step in the process, creating
potential disconnects……and even greater
inefficiencies caused by inevitable rework
cascading backward across the entire cycle

10. How do you Implement Decisions Modeling ?
 First…Contact Prolifics the leading provider of Decision
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 Together, the next step is to evaluate where the client is on
the Business Rule Maturity Model.

11. How do you implement Decision Modeling ?
 Select an approach or create an approach tailored to your
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 Capture your business rules (Dave will speak to this)
 Model your business process to identify decisions
 Model your business decisions

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15. Examples of Decision Models – Rule Family
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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics  Business Logic detail is captured
 One Conclusion and all required Conditions are identified
 Rule Patterns are identified

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17. Summarizing Decision Modeling
 Provides a container which organizes rules about specific
task in the process flow and the relationships between
rules.
 Improves Time To Market while insuring tat business logic
implemented in applications is complete consistent, correct
and current.
 Provides a mechanism for insuring clear communication
between the Business Owners of the rules and IT
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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics What is Governance?
A defined and enforced set of steps that will be
followed in the extraction of the business logic,
engineering it into business rules and decisions,
deploying and testing, moving the decisions into
production and managing their total life cycle

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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics Roles and Responsibilities
A set of roles with meaningful
titles and associated
responsibilities that are
mapped specific tasks within
the governance process

20. Examples of Roles and Responsibilities
Actors Roles Responsibilities
Originators Service Requestor Determine need and provide clear and concise description of
request
Provide clarification as necessary
Business Line Service Requestor Determine need and provide clear and concise description of
request
Provide clarification as necessary
Rules Author ODM Developer Support the development of the rule projects infrastructure and
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Rules Validator ODM Developer Developer (different than the Author), who performs a peer
review of the changes made by the Author
Manager Manager Reviews the work of the Author and Validator to ensure the
change(s) are accurate and ready to be deployed
Deployer Implementer Takes the approved change and pushes it to production.
Deployer then notifies Author of the success/failure of the
deployment
Product Architect Administrator Provides admin services to the ODM system and platform.
Provides assistance with problems or issues within the tool.

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A method of accounting
for the progress of
work through the
process workflow

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 “In process reporting” including response time and number
of times a request must be returned to the client for
additional information
 Work load monitoring for rule writers for load balancing
and unit, regression and simulation testing
 “Post Process Monitoring” at a variety of levels of
granularity including, but not limited to, rule performance
and impact (speed and effect on the overall performance of
the project) and Usage over specific time intervals

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 Governance must be enforced
 It must include roles and responsibilities
 Governance must be flexible to respond to change
 Governance must be measurable

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 Why: General discussion of need
 How: Methodology
 What: Review of the harvesting deliverables
 Who: Review the roles and responsibilities
 When: Timeline for harvesting?
 Decision Service (DS) Testing Harness
 Overview, Methodology and breakdown
 Speeding up the rule harvesting process
 Investigation, Awareness, POC, Tool Selection, Pilot & Purchase

29. Why harvest rules from code (Cobol)?
 Cobol and other code resources are becoming rare
 Platforms that execute Cobol code can be expensive
 Cobol logic changes require IT resources
 Business rule logic can be easier for SME to verify
 Business rule logic can be easily deployed to decision
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 Business rule resources are easier to find
 Many tools to help automate business rules exist in
market

30. How - What is our Methodology?
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31. Rule Harvesting (Mining) is hard work
!!!!
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32. Reverse Engineer all / part of programs
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33. Reverse Engineering – Other knowledge sources
(inline-jcl, stored-procedures, ETL jobs, tipsheets)
Reverse Engineer all / part of COBOL programs
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34. How - Rule Harvesting - Scope
Reverse Engineer all / part of COBOL programs
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Implementation
(IBM ODM)

35. Reverse Engineer all / part of COBOL programs
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Coordination
Data, IIB,
Reporting

36. How - Deliverables for COBOL rule harvesting?
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program Flows
High Level
SME
Document
Translation
Document
Classification
Document
Rule
Requirements
Document
ODM Decision
Service
ODM Results
Document
Technical Business Analyst
ODM devpr / Decision Analyst

37. What- Rule Harvesting deliverables: pgm flows
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program Flows
Technical Business Analyst

38. What - Rule Harvesting: translation documents
Technical Business Analyst
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Document

39. What - Rule Harvesting: SME documents
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SME
Document
Technical Business Analyst

40. What - Rule Harvesting: classification
documents
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Document
ODM devpr / Decision Analyst
Rules
Classification

41. What - Rule Harvesting deliverables: Rule
requirement documents (rulebook)
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Requirement
Document
ODM devpr / Decision Analyst

42. What - Rule Harvesting deliverables:
ODM decision service
ODM devpr / Decision Analyst
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Service

43. What - Rule Harvesting deliverables:
ODM results document
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Document
ODM devpr / Decision Analyst

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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics Who - Rule Harvesting: Who?
Technical
Business
Analyst
Business
Analyst Decision
Analyst
ODM
Rules
Developer
Lead SOA
Developer
Data
Integration
Developer
Configuration
Manager
(Governance) Rules
System
Architect
- Dave H

45. When - Rule Harvesting Progress
Decision Service #1’s Rule mining is:
98% complete
(82 of 84 rule assets are modeled)
Decision Service #2’s Rule mining is:
7% complete
(7 of 96 rule assets are modeled)
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46. Decision Service Testing Harness
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47. When - DS Testing Methodology
STEPS:
1. Test existing
COBOL
decisions
(Yellow)
2. Test As-Is DS’s
(Green)
3. Compare Yellow
to Green
4. Test Future
system decision
services (Pink)
5. Compare Pink to
Green and
Yellow, then
create reports
(Blue)
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48. Speeding up the Rule Harvesting process
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49. Tools exist, to help streamline the
Rule Harvesting process
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• Identify potential candidates (2 weeks)
• Awareness demonstrations (4 weeks) – Completed
• POC w/Pay Ability data (2 weeks) – Completed
• Create Recommendation (1 week) – In Progress
• Tool Selection, gather internal support (2 weeks)
• Pilot + Training + Acceptance Criteria (3-4 weeks)
April
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4
May
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4
June
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4
July
Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4
Tool Awareness POC Select Pilot
Training
Candidates Recommend

50. Specifying the Tool Selection Criteria
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• Create ER data models
• Auto create data dictionary
• Browse data files
• Verify data relationships
• Support sub-groups
• Export diagrams to VISIO (others)
Business rule extraction
• Identify diff patterns in rules
• Export to rules engine
• Develop test cases
• Create system doc for user review
• X-ref rules to code
• Find duplicate rules
• Classify rules mined
Business Process Extraction
• Identify business processes
• Drill down to sub-processes
• Auto model as UML or use case
• Descriptions of flow between activity
diagrams and use cases
• Export models as external files
Program Analysis
• Search for specific info in all pgms
• Drill into logic from prev search
• Search across pgms, jcl, procs, etc
• confine search to limited pgms
• Create a diagram of jcl & pgm flows

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Public | Copyright © 2014 Prolifics Summary
Decision Modeling represents an significant step in the ability of the enterprise
to deploy mission critical business rule applications in a timely fashion, which
are complete, consistent, correct and current, delivering competitive
advantage .
Decision Modeling provides a mechanism which allows the business to
communicate accurately with IT clearly and minimizes rework.
Governance of rule artifacts is key to any effective, successful development
effort of automating business decisions today.
Rule Harvesting from legacy code can be tedious and rewarding at the same
time. The rule harvesting processes are often made easier with automated
tools. Rule harvesting, produces a better decisions, when decision modeling
and rule governance play a significant role in the harvesting process.

52.  How are you currently making decisions
 What is your decision management roadmap?
 How to get there to best leverage your investments
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