Business Rules Extraction
Are you trying to make key system decisions without detailed system information?
When you’re trying to decide whether to extend, replace, or modernize a legacy system, do you have a clear view of that system’s business rules and internal processes? Those details are critically important for scoping projects and avoiding those unwanted surprises.
So you turn to documentation. Maybe it’s non-existent, scarce, or outdated. Original developers are no longer part of the team and your staff is limited. Specs are lost (or dated, or wrong), and nobody is quite sure how to get the necessary answers.
And everybody from business analysts to developers to quality assurance teams needs those answers. What do you do?
With documentation tools–and the right experts to interpret results–you can get to the critical system business rules of the system:
- Reduce time gathering “as is” system documentation
- See what a program is actually doing–see which programs affect other programs and how much a system is used, and develop plans accordingly
- Map internal processes, saving developers’ time
- Review and confirm conditional program statements
- Identify when and where there are multiple ways to perform the same function
- Identify documentation conflicts/fill gaps in knowledge
- Collect scenarios for thorough testing
- Search easily
- Discover unknown facets of the system that might be needed
Our team can help you decide when, where and how to use these tools to get that system picture you need.
We’ve been cultivating expertise with a number of documentation tools, and we can:
- Train and guide staff on the best and most strategic use of documentation tools. We know how to “consume” code, understand scenarios where the tool is most effective, and can read and interpret results.
- Leverage documentation tools for a variety of technical purposes, such as technical business analysis, development, and quality assurance.
- Our Tools Support:
- A system-inventory dashboard
- System statistics
- System diagrams
- Program links
- Database CRUD (create/read/update/delete) activity
- Free-form search capabilities.
- Artifacts may include:
- Enterprise system diagrams, plus detailed diagrams of screens, JCL, processes and programs, and external interfaces,
- Program flow diagram with business logic links,
- Data flow diagram with data reads, writes, updates, and delete functions,
- Benefits of our tools are:
- Current and complete.
- Automated and accurate.
- Always available.
- Maintenance-free.