Use Cases in PRPC – Part 4

Continuing on from Use Cases in PRPC – Part 3, the following tables will give Pega Business Architects an idea of how to use PRPC’s “Use Case Rule” to capture details about your Atomic Use Case.

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Use Cases in PRPC – Part 3

Continuing on from Use Cases in PRPC – Part 2, the following tables will give Pega Business Architects an idea of how to use PRPC’s “Use Case Rule” to capture details about your Software Use Case.

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Use Cases in PRPC – Part 2

In Part 1, we took a look at Pega’s definition of a Use Case and what the Application Profile Wizard allows Pega Business Architects to capture. In Part 2, we shall now take a look at four different types of Use Case and how they relate to PRPC.

Business Use Case […]

BPMN in Pegasystems PRPC Flow Rules

There is a perception that Pegasystems PRPC can be used to create BPMN-compliant process models. However, I consider this perception to be incorrect.

This slide show takes you through my reasoning, but I can sum up my conclusion with a golf analogy:

No matter how good your 3-iron is, you can’t turn it into an […]

Adding new requirement types to PRPC

In a previous post I lamented the limited list of default requirement types that PRPC provides. However, there is a way to extend that list.

A few months ago I was working as a Pega Business Architect and I asked a Pega Certified Lead Systems Architect (a former Pega employee, in […]

Review of Pegasystems’ SmartBPM

In this blog post I aim to provide an appraisal of the Pega Developer Network article “Getting Started with SmartBPM”, based on my experiences working on Pega projects in the field.

I am a certified Pega Business Architect and Methodology Black Belt, and here I provide an alternative to SmartBPM, which […]

Upcoming: appraisal of PDN article

I am currently writing an appraisal of the Pega Developer Network article titled “Getting Started with SmartBPM”.

You can see the article itself on the PDN but you will probably need to use Internet Explorer.

I’m preparing the appraisal as a certified Pega Business Architect and Methodology Black Belt. […]

Is “Business Analyst” a Job Role Facing Extinction? NO!

Is “Business Analyst” a Job Role Facing Extinction? I keep seeing this question popping up on discussion forums and it is getting tiresome.

I find the question naïve and the following was my answer to a thread on LinkedIn today:

Business analysis is an essential skill in any change […]

Use Cases in PRPC – Part 1

Use Cases are a key concept Pega Business Architects should understand if they are planning to use PRPC’s Application Profile Wizard.

If you are familiar with UML, Pega’s notion of a Use Case might confuse you at first. It is important to distinguish between a “Use Case Rule” (which is a […]

PRPC Case Types

Case Types are a key element in Pega BPM development and it is important for Pega Business Architects to have an understanding of them.

Case Type is what Pega used to call a Work Type prior to Pega 7. Although the Type is a Pega implementation device, the concept also has […]