Business knowledge and rules
Explain the concepts, conditions and calculations used in your work with their context. Keep accepting a definition distinct from executing an operation in a real system.
“Active customer”, “completed work” and “approved request” may mean different things in different organisations and systems. Consider a concept’s definition, scope, owner and related business knowledge explicitly.
The business-knowledge approach distinguishes terms, facts, constraints, triggers, inferences and calculations. A calculated result is not presented as having the same basis as a value read from a source.
A rule needs more than its text. Who, what, where, when, why and how make a definition understandable. Its period of validity can differ from the time it was recorded in a system.
Missing information is not automatically treated as eligible or ineligible. Conflicting evidence and unknown results must remain visible during evaluation.
Xohre’s target is to treat a business rule as knowledge that can be discussed and traced to its basis. An example evaluation or simulation is not an operation performed in a real source system.
Real execution remains subject to source-system permissions and business rules. This content design does not promise a general rules engine or ready-made automation for every organisation.
EXAMPLE ACTIVITY
A team discovers that people interpret “requests with no missing documents proceed to approval” in different ways.
Clarify which documents and request types are meant.
Consider the rule, its basis and its exceptions as distinct knowledge.
Make uncertainty visible when a request contains missing or conflicting information.
Consider the real application separately through the relevant source’s supported operation and validation.
A rule definition that makes business language and responsibility for real operations clear in the same discussion.
WHAT REMAINS?
Concepts with clear scope and ownership
Rule knowledge with an explicit basis and timing
A distinction between simulation and real execution
YOUR QUESTIONS
No. It describes the target approach to business knowledge and rules. General source execution and selection of a detailed engine design are separate scopes.
No. The rule’s scope, authoritative owner and source-system validation must be considered separately.
Bring ideas, records and decisions into the same context.
