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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">The goal of the rule analysis activity is to
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| understand the meaning of the rule as stated by the business person and Subject Matter Expert and to remove any
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| ambiguity and semantic issue in this description so that we can prepare for the future rule implementation. The rule
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| analyst and the rule writer analyze the rules discovered in a disjointed way into a complete and coherent
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| set.</span></span>
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| </p>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">From the rule description, the glossary of business terms and may be from a first
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| version of the conceptual data model (CDM), the discovery team needs to transform the rules using terms of the business
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| object to elements that will be implemented by the rule writers.</span>
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| </p>
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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">The rule analysis includes at least the following activities:</span>
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| <img height="284" alt="" src="./resources/Analysis_BP.bmp" width="800" />
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| </p>
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| <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">Analyze the description of the rule to find business concept and things,
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| and facts</span>
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">Transform Rules&nbsp;to remove ambiguity and to
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| make&nbsp;them&nbsp;atomic.The rule should use well-defined terms. Those terms will serve to develop the future
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| data models.</span>
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| <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| Build test scenario
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| </li>
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| <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| Design the data model for rules
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| </li>
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| <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">Synchronize with the data modeling team</span>
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| </div>
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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">A rule is atomic if it cannot be further decomposed without losing meaning.</span>
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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">Rule analysis does not deal with rule validation, this will be done later, nor it
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| does not deal with rule optimization. One of the most difficult activity of the rule analysis is to resolve
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| inconsistencies among rules and ensure completeness among rules. This will not be possible to complete a rule set in
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| one iteration, but the analysis activity should address the questions of completeness and prepare for the future
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| iteration.</span>
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| </p><br class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" />
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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| <span style="mso-bidi-language: HE">It is also very important to start using the rule development IDE as soon as
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| possible to understand how complex the rule and the object model are. This is when we implement rules that we are
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| seeing real analysis issues. Implemented rule also help to come back to the business users with concrete cases,
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| questions and issues.</span>
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