Course Description
This 5-day instructor-led course introduces business analysts to IBM
Operational Decision Manager V8.5.You learn the concepts and skills that
are necessary to capture, author, validate, and manage business rules
with Operational Decision Manager.
IBM Operational Decision Manager provides a complete platform for
managing business rules by helping to automate and govern decisions
across processes and applications. Version 8.5 introduces the decision
governance framework, which provides prescriptive tools for managing
decision governance.
This course focuses on the iterative nature of working
collaboratively with business policy experts and development teams on
rule projects. Through instructor-led presentations, product
demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, you learn about the core
features of Operational Decision Manager. You also receive intensive
training in modeling business rule vocabulary, rule discovery, rule
authoring, and rule governance and management. The course uses realistic
scenarios and a case study to illustrate the principles and good
practices for discovering, analyzing, and authoring business rules.
The course begins with an overview of Operational Decision
Manager and the modeling concepts that are related to business rule
applications. You work with Unified Modeling Notation (UML) to document
use cases and draw class diagrams. You also work with real-life business
models, use cases, and business policies during the rule discovery and
analysis labs. After learning how to transform business policy into
rules, you learn how to write rules in Decision Center and Rule
Designer.
This course covers rule authoring topics such as working with
conditions, defining variables for definition statements, and creating
decision tables and decision trees. You then learn how to create queries
and reports, and you also learn how to run tests and simulations with
Decision Validation Services.
In addition, the course covers Decision Center management
features, such as permission management, version control, baselines, and
multiple release management of business rule projects. You learn how to
identify governance issues and use the Operational Decision Manager
decision governance framework to support decision governance and rule
management.
The lab environment for this course uses the Windows 2008 Server platform.
What You'll Learn
- Describe the benefits of implementing
an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the collaboration that is
required between the business and development teams
- Identify the main user roles that are involved in designing and
developing an Operational Decision Manager solution, and the tasks that
are associated with each role
- Explain modeling concepts and the Unified Modeling Language
(UML) notation that is relevant to modeling for business rules and
events
- Define and implement object models for business rules
- Use good practices to discover and analyze business rules for implementation
- Set up the rule authoring environment in Designer by working
with rule projects, and synchronizing across development and business
environments
- Customize the vocabulary that is used in rules
- Use the Operational Decision Manager rule editors to author business rules and decision tables
- Run tests and simulations in Decision Center to validate decision logic and rule changes
- Use various Decision Center features that support project
management, such as permission management, version control, smart
folders, and multiple release management
- Explain governance issues and work with Operational Decision Manager features that support decision governance
Who Needs to Attend
This intermediate course is designed for business analysts.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Experience with identifying and defining business policies and rules
- A basic understanding of business models
Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.
Course Outline
- Course introduction
- Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.5
- Operational Decision Manager: Business rules
- Exercise: IBM Operational Decision Manager in action
- Modeling for business rules
- Exercise: Building the model on paper
- Exercise: Implementing the model
- Exercise: Understanding the case study
- Discovering and analyzing rules
- Exercise: Discovering rules
- Exercise: Analyzing rules
- Understanding rule projects
- Exercise: Setting up a rule project
- Working with the BOM
- Exercise: Working with the BOM
- Introducing rule authoring
- Introducing Decision Center: The Business console and the Enterprise console
- Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Business console
- Exercise: Exploring the Decision Center Enterprise console
- Working with conditions in rules
- Exercise: Working with conditions in rules
- Working with definitions in rules
- Exercise: Working with definitions in rules
- Writing complete rules
- Exercise: Writing complete rules
- Authoring decision tables and trees
- Exercise: Authoring decision tables and trees
- Exercise: Authoring rules: Putting it all together
- Reviewing rules
- Exercise: Reviewing rules
- Running tests and simulations with Decision Validation Services
- Exercise: Running tests and simulations
- Introducing Decision Center Enterprise console management features
- Exercise: Working with the Decision Center Enterprise console management features
- Introducing decision governance
- Exercise: Working with the decision governance framework
- Course summary