Title: 20/20 Hindsight
Product review: One valuable lesson I learned is to read reviews before buying books.I recently discovered business rules as a methodology and have been buying every book on the subject that I can find. This book looked like it would give useful information, but didn't. There may be a few good ideas buried within, but they are hidden by academic prose and ideas that are just not implementable in the real world. Anyone who claims they have implemented a business specifications or business rules approach based on this book is glossing over the major surgery that would be needed to accomplish such a feat.Not only is the book dull and filled with indecipherable passages and a lot of fluff, the notation is weak. I recommend getting Tony Morgan's BUSINESS RULES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, which clearly explains what this book fails to, and uses the more standard UML as the notation language.If you still insist on getting this book, at least you've been warned.
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