Model Training

Using decision modeling, you can:

• Express business logic that is both meaningful to the business and executable.
  
  • Consequently, this creates a single ‘prime record’ for business requirements that is both comprehensible to the business and deployable to a run-time system.
  • The representation eliminates the errors that occur when translating specifications to implementation code.
  • It puts the business subject matter expert and business analyst in the driving seat creating a more effective collaboration between business experts and IT personnel.
  • It enables test-driven development of decisions. The executable nature of decision models allows them to simulate business logic against test data, enabling business users to ‘kick the tires’ of their decisions.
• Quickly identify which data your decisions really need.
  • Sketching a decision model is the quickest way to determine what data you actually need and the required data quality (i.e., latency, accuracy, completeness) to support decision-making.
  • Decision modeling therefore makes data provisioning more accurate: avoiding the cost of over-provisioning and the delays of late discovery of missing vital data items.
• Perform impact analysis.
  • Because decision modeling focuses on the dependencies between decisions, sub-decisions, authorities and data, it allows a rapid assessment of the business and technical impact of changes to these things.
  • Helps businesses to assess the true cost of internal change and the impact of externally imposed change.
  • Enables CI/CD allowing it to support agile methodologies
• Make implicit business knowledge explicit.
  • Decision modeling helps to reveal and address any flaws or inconsistencies in the accepted wisdom of decision-making.
  • The technique includes means of discovering decisions that are ‘hidden in plain sight’.
• Commoditize business knowledge.
  • Decision modeling offers a vehicle for companies to buy and sell business expertise (e.g., regulatory standards, legal constraints, industry conventions).
• Standardize and integrate your decision with business process modeling (BPMN). All Business Analysts and tools will use the same format to represent decision modeling.