“According to CIO magazine, up to 71 percent of IT project failures are caused by an ineffective requirements process.”
Business Rules are the orphan child of the requirements process, and our failure to address this issue continues to contribute significantly to IT failure.
What follows are seven deadly sins that continue to relegate rules to a second class status. We discuss the root cause of the problem, and postulate on potential solutions.
#1: Business rules are captured during design, if at all.