Term Definition: Decision point
Main Description

Groups together all potential rules that determine one decision. It can be found in a use case description or in a Business Process Map task description. During the inception phase, the project team can build a decision point table to log the potential decision points which need to be managed during the Rule Harvesting phase.

Example:

  • Group all rules that determine 'eligibility for membership'
  • Verify the claim data
  • Adjudicate the claim

Any task or activity description which includes mental thinking like verb such as check, qualify, compute, calculate, estimate, evaluate, determine, assess, compare, verify, validate, confirm, decide, diagnose, process... behind those verbs the team extracts a lot of business knowledge and how the decisions are done.