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Some thoughts on perfect application development

March 10, 2010

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John Reynolds had an interesting post a little while back where he shared some thoughts on Perfect development tools. His emphasis was on support for things like iterative and test-driven development but it seems to me that there is also a need to move application development beyond code.
While developers do need development environments [...]

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More on replacing COBOL with something useful

February 10, 2010

Lisa posted an interesting comment on an old post of mine (Why don’t you replace COBOL with something useful (not Java)) in which she make some interesting comments:
I understand your last point that using a declarative “model” such business rules would be preferable to replace legacy COBOL applications instead of using a procedural language.
Indeed. [...]

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Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?

February 4, 2010

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Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on  Apps Modernization – What are Your Top Priorities in 2010/11? that reminded me I wanted to write about modernization a little before the year got too far advanced. As Phil says the coming years are going to be really interesting:
Leading edge technologies will become [...]

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What You Need to Know about Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond with Ron Ross

January 21, 2010

[ February 11, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] Our first webinar of 2010 is Ron Ross on Decisioning with Business Rules for 2010 and Beyond

How can you achieve an order-of-magnitude improvement in your current way of supporting business processes? Learn how other companies have done it – deliberately and with no silver bullets. In this thoughtful discussion, Ron reviews what leading companies are [...]

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A decision-centric organization

January 19, 2010

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This week I thought I would write about decision-centric organizations. Organizations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organizations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make (which claims to pay, which customers to target, which transactions to investigate for fraud) are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes [...]

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Some new white papers

December 10, 2009

I have added a couple of new white papers to my company site – check out the decisioning white papers page where you can register and download them.
The first is called “Smarter Systems for An Uncertain World” and is similar in concept to the keynote I gave at the Business Rules Forum: In an increasingly [...]

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Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 2 #brf

November 4, 2009

The second full day of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit is over and once again I have been taking notes rather than blogging live. Once again there were some great sessions – today I heard Steve Hendrick of IDC, Sandeep Gupta of Equifax, Chaitan Sharma of DAASL, Zach Springborn of OneData and Mo [...]

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Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 1 #brf

November 4, 2009

It’s the end of day 1 of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit and time to write a wrap up post for the day – no live blogging today as I have too much on as track chair to sit behind my keyboard!
Today I got to attend Jim Sinur’s keynote and sessions from Roger [...]

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Article on using decison management and BPM together

October 18, 2009

I wrote an article with Vijay Narayanan (of artofsoftwarereuse.com) on using decision management and business process management in combination – Achieving Organization Agility Using Decision Management.

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SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09

October 13, 2009

Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009 and my first session is an executive Q&A. First up was some discussion of the day’s announcements:

Extension of engagement with HP, integrated Neoview with Business Warehouse so customers can combine Business Objects and Neoview. as well as extending the services relationship (obviously important given HP’s acquisition of EDS).
SAP EcoHub [...]

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Some thoughts on rules, decisions, agility and more

October 9, 2009

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I got an interesting comment on my recent post about the top 4 concerns of CIOs.
Joanne makes a number of points in her comment that I thought should be addressed:
a business rules engine is not nearly enough. What is needed instead is a means to model manage and measure the impact of a [...]

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Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur on the topic of business rules management – BRM – and its role as the misunderstood partner for process.  Jim argues you cannot survive, much less thrive, if you do not know your business rules. In particular, you must pull out and make explicit the 30% ff your most volatile rules. These rules [...]

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Dynamic BPM and agility

October 6, 2009

Jim Sinur presented on how companies are preparing for change and using agility as an advantage. Not just as a technology option but as a requirement for transformation. In some sectors this ability to do dynamic BPM is becoming a competitive weapon. Key issues:

how will BPM become more dynamic
what impact will SOA, web, events, governance [...]

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Bare essentials of making rules work

October 5, 2009

Jim Sinur and Dave McCoy of Gartner hosted a quick session on making rules work at the Gartner BPM show. With only 30 minutes this was quick and dirty and the audience was overwhelmingly people completely new to business rules (though not to BPM). Dave outlined his 5 pieces of advice:

Ignore standards
While it would be [...]

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Decision management and the top 4 concerns of CIOs

September 29, 2009

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I was reading an article on The top 10 CIO concerns and I was struck by the first four:

Business productivity and cost reduction
IT and business alignment
Business agility and speed to market
Business process re-engineering

It seemed to me, reading this list, that all four of these were concerns that could be addressed [...]

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Decision Management Summit – early bird extended

September 22, 2009

I am the chair of the Summit and I am going to give …

A Keynote on Smarter Systems for Uncertain Times

A Tutorial on Maximizing the ROI of a Business Rules Investment with Decision Management

A Special Talk on Performance Management and Agility

The Early Bird rate for the Summit has been extended one extra week
PLUS there is [...]

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Adding decision management to your BPM initiative

September 22, 2009

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Last week I wrote a piece on the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning. As promised, here are some thoughts on how to get started.

Identify your decisions
Step one is to find and name and manage the decisions that matter to your processes. Finding decisions is not always that easy, though it gets [...]

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Risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning

September 18, 2009

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Inspired by this post by Vijay on Art of Software Reuse (Risks With Pursuing BPM Without SOA) I thought I would write something about the risks of pursuing BPM without decisioning – without decision management.
When BPM is pursued without pursing decision management in parallel the direct consequence is that decisions become an afterthought [...]

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Looking at code from both sides with business rules

September 18, 2009

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Sharon Machlis had a great piece over on Computerworld titled Opinion: I’ve looked at code from both sides now on her experience of being a developer on a project where she was usually a user. It’s an interesting experience that she describes and I was struck particularly by a couple of comments. First, [...]

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Enterprise Application 2.0

August 24, 2009

As organizations try to achieve agility, productivity and efficiency they often look to new technologies, new approaches to change the status quo. But when it comes to information systems, most large enterprises have an electronic backbone of legacy enterprise applications. Whether packaged or custom developed, these are “1.0″ enterprise applications. Or, more bluntly, dumb applications. [...]

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