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Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

By James Taylor on June 11, 2009 4:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

The International Business Rules Forum™ is the premier Conference dedicated to Business Rules, where the future of Business Rules, Decisioning, Compliance & Enterprise Design is taking shape! This year's event covers Business Rules, Decision Management, Business Process, Governance and Compliance.... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Compliance, Decision Management, Event Processing, Predictive Analytics

Nice report on the value of end-user developers

By James Taylor on May 28, 2009 9:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research recently wrote a nice piece called Deputize End-User Developers To Deliver Business Agility And Reduce Costs. The report is available from Forrester (for subscribers and for those who purchase it) but the summary is on... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management

Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

By James Taylor on May 20, 2009 7:51 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Kirk Knoernschild had a great post on Application Platform Strategies Blog: Increasing Your Agility. I often blog about the power of business rules to improve agility (check out Decision Services and designing for change,Decision Management and software development - Agile... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules

Decision Services and designing for change

By James Taylor on April 20, 2009 8:54 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Todd Biske wrote an interesting piece titled Thoughts on designing for change that made me think about one of the real basics of decision management and reminded me of some comments Phil Wainewright made years ago about what happens to... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

Keeping business rules out of your use cases with decisions

By James Taylor on April 1, 2009 8:34 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Adrian Marchis had a nice article on Use Case Recycling by Extracting Business Rules. Now making sure decisions are identified explicitly in use cases avoids one of the seven deadly sins of decision management and is something I think is... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management, Requirements

Here's how decision management simplifies process management

By James Taylor on March 31, 2009 10:00 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Checking out some articles on the Business Rules Community I saw a great illustration of making processes simpler and more agile with decision management. In How Business Rules Define Business Processes (free registration required), Jan Vanthienen and Stijn Goedertier give... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management

Another way decision management and process interact

By James Taylor on March 18, 2009 8:36 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Jim Sinur, over on the Gartner blog, has a post this week on Rule Guided Processes are the Way of the Future in which he saysThere are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management

Business Rules to Programmers: Methink thou doest protest too much II

By James Taylor on February 25, 2009 8:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Continuing my response to - Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To it's time to take some of the arguments Alex makes and show why I think his arguments should lead one to adopt a business rules approach. Despite... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Process Management, Business Rules

Using Decision Management and software development - Model-Driven Engineering

By James Taylor on February 4, 2009 7:10 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

Continuing this weeks posts on using decision management to improve development, I thought I would post on how decision management should be part of model-driven development (model-driven engineering, a model-driven architecture or whatever). The recent, and premature, discussion of the... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management

Decision Management and software development - Agile

By James Taylor on February 4, 2009 6:57 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Last week I posted Focusing on decisions to improve the software end product and I decided that this week's posts would be a series of follow-ups on how decision management can and should impact software development. Today on how it... Read More..

Categories: Business Agility, Business Rules, Decision Management

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Don't forget the premier rules/decisioning event of 2009!

Nice report on the value of end-user developers

Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

Decision Services and designing for change

Keeping business rules out of your use cases with decisions

Here's how decision management simplifies process management

Another way decision management and process interact

Business Rules to Programmers: Methink thou doest protest too much II

Using Decision Management and software development - Model-Driven Engineering

Decision Management and software development - Agile

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