James Taylor's Decision Management

Michael Hugos over at CIO magazine had an interesting post today - The System Builder Drives IT Agility. He makes five suggestions on which I thought I would follow-up:

• Understanding business operation - shared understanding presumably despite the different perspectives of business and IT
• Inclusive process - one like concurrent business engineering, for instance
• Tolerate not knowing - both because you need to investigate the issues and because those issues change
• Simple underlying pattens - rule templates, for instance, to empower business users to maintain their own rules
• Simple combinations - for instance, when decisioning is called for use decision services to keep everything clean and packaged

He also referenced this one - The 30-Day Blitz, IT Agility in Action - and I think business rules and decision services are often a very effective way to add value to existing systems quickly and without completely re-writing the systems concerned. Check out this legacy modernization story, for instance, or posts in the legacy modernization category.

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