Business Decision Requirements and Rule Evaluation
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Define trusted decision inputs, rule predicates, precedence, authority, positive and negative outcomes, and auditable review.
Purpose: specify an independently accountable business decision as an operational service with attributable facts, explicit eligibility rules, conflict precedence and bounded outcomes. It is not an opaque branch within a software workflow. Operating model: decision inputs are attributed and checked for authenticity and freshness; approved rules then yield approved, denied or deferred results. Deferred cases request further evidence through an independent reviewer; they are not interpreted as approval. Communicated decisions retain scope, authority, effective dates and replayable rationale. Reference limits: Arq models these as conceptual business activities and events, not a runnable DMN rules engine. Implementations must define decision tables, temporal obligations, schema contracts and negative conformance scenarios; this does not certify the correctness of an organization's decisions.
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- Business Actor
- Business decision requester
- Role
- Decision-making authority, Independent exception reviewer
- Business Event
- Decision requested, Approved decision outcome, Denied decision outcome, Deferred decision outcome
- Process
- Business decision service lifecycle
- Activity
- Collect decision facts, Validate facts and provenance, Apply effective decision rules, Resolve contested or missing evidence, Communicate scoped decision, Persist and reconcile decision
- Business Object
- Decision request, Verified decision evidence, Versioned decision record
- Rule
- Eligibility predicates, Authority and resource thresholds, Conflict and precedence rules
- Policy
- Business decision governance policy
- Constraint
- No implicit approval constraint
- Capability
- Governed business decision execution
- Business Service
- Decision determination service
- Application
- Decision support application
- Measure
- Decision quality and latency
- Outcome
- Authorized and justified decision