EPF_Practices/practice.tech.abrd.base/guidances/guidelines/types_of_rule_discovery.xmi

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    &lt;span style=&quot;mso-bidi-language: HE&quot;>&lt;span style=&quot;mso-bidi-language: HE&quot;>The following table is giving the different&#xD;
    possible starting points for the discovery activity.&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&#xD;
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                Analysis techniques used - starting point&#xD;
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                Description&#xD;
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                Business Events&#xD;
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            &lt;td>&#xD;
                Start with the business events listed in the inception artifacts.&lt;br />&#xD;
                Each business event is processed by a set of activities that can be described in document or business&#xD;
                process&lt;br />&#xD;
                Use when the organization does not utilize use cases.&#xD;
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                Use Case&#xD;
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                Analyze Use case description to find decision points and then rules&lt;br />&#xD;
                Preferred approach, used by team used to develop use cases, or Agile user stories.&#xD;
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                Business process / Workflow&#xD;
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                Evaluate individual process steps and tasks to define the&amp;nbsp;decision&amp;nbsp;behind each activty&amp;nbsp;and&#xD;
                then the rules.&lt;br />&#xD;
                Used when the organization utilizes process decomposition for the requirements gathering and analysis phase&#xD;
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                Data Analysis&#xD;
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                Used in case of data change oriented rules project&lt;br />&#xD;
                Starts with the logical data model and how evaluate how entities are created&#xD;
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                Mission Policies&#xD;
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                Based on a top-down rules and business policies approach&lt;br />&#xD;
                Rules sources are high level manager, decision makers&lt;br />&#xD;
                Part of a business process reengineering effort&#xD;
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