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Book Review – Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way

August 1, 2009

Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way by Barbara Von Halle, Larry Goldberg
The book is a collection of chapters, not necessarily designed to be read in sequence. The chapters include:

A great summary of various rules projects surveyed by KPI showing the focus on agility, consistency, knowledge management, legacy modernization, business control (though interestingly not [...]

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Getting business and IT alignment with business rules

July 22, 2009

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Michael Cote of Redmonk had a nice piece on over on his People over Process blog. He made a series of great points about the risk of business and IT people not being aligned – risks to the business and to IT. In particular I was struck by this comment:
What happens here [...]

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How many degrees of separation are there between your developers and users?

July 15, 2009

James Governor of Redmonk shared a great tweet today (he is @monkchips)
@dhague: 6 degrees of separation between developers and end-users is 3 too many. It’s hard to keep users happy with that disconnect
Now here’s one way to think about the degrees of separation between your users and your developers:

Users tell an analyst what they want
The [...]

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A message for the application developer in the mirror

July 7, 2009

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Mike Gualtieri is always interesting over at the Forrester Blog For Application Development & Program Management Professionals. This week he has a post called Do Application Developers Need To Change Their Ways? In the post he asks developers to look at the person in the mirror (he’s been listening to Michael Jackson’s song [...]

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Accelerating BPM Adoption

July 1, 2009

I am speaking at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco and blogging a couple of sesssions. First up today is Michael Melenovsky (formerly of Gartner) on Accelerating BPM Adoption – creating a vision and establishing a roadmap. Michael made the great point that companies sometimes get started with BPM to try it out and then [...]

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

June 11, 2009

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. Once again I will be giving a tutorial and a keynote and acting as track [...]

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Slides from the webinar on mainframe agility

June 2, 2009

For those of you who could not attend the webinar I gave with Claye Greene of technologyblue, here are the slides:
SOA Mainframe Decision Management

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Nice report on the value of end-user developers

May 29, 2009

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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 their website:
The ranks of businesspeople who are capable of developing applications are swelling [...]

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Free webinar on Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management

May 21, 2009

I am presenting, with Claye Greene of technologyblue, on the path to business agility and lower costs: Mainframes, SOA and Decision Management. The webinar is on June 2nd at 7:30am Pacific time (scheduled specifically for folks in Pittsburgh and vicinity) and will cover how applying Decision Management, SOA and Business Rules Management Systems can renovate [...]

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Business Rules and Increasing Your Agility

May 21, 2009

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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 and Achieving Agility – some notes after Gartner for instance) and I was [...]

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Complementing IBM BPM with ILOG

May 5, 2009

A technical introduction to how ILOG’s product complement WebSphere Business Process Management products.  ILOG, of course, has a full-fledged Business Rules Management Systems or BRMS as well as an optimization engine (CPLEX), visualization tools and applications for supply chain management. This session focused on how the ILOG BRMS integrates with and complements the WebSphere BPM [...]

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Building Agile Processes with SOA and Business Rules

May 4, 2009

Vision Service Plan, VSP, presented on their use of business rules to build agile business processes in healthcare. VSP has some 55M customers in their plans and have been an IBM/ILOG customer since 2002. Every process in healthcare is governed by policies, regulations – every process has decisions that must be made following the rules [...]

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Live from IMPACT 2009 – Keynotes

May 4, 2009

Well here we are at another IMPACT. The event has 5,000+ attendees. Keynotes begin with some humor from Billy Crystal. Steve Mills got the serious section kicked of by reminding us that technology is so pervasive it is easy to forget what we rely on it for. Billions of transistors, billions of people connected to [...]

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Decision Services and designing for change

April 21, 2009

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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 deployed services:
Services have to operate in the real world, where nothing can be [...]

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Another way decision management and process interact

March 19, 2009

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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 says
There are obvious benefits in making business policies/rules explicit and easily changed via accompanying quick-change processes.
Now I have blogged before about the power of business rules and decision [...]

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Warranty Management – New rules to apply

March 11, 2009

Rob Pritchard of Infosys presented on the power of business rules in warranty. His focus is on agility – most warranty systems are inflexible and hard to change. Organizations cannot make changes to warranty policy to respond to competitors, can’t create what-if scenarios, can’t tighten claims control or pre-valid claims or repairs. These problems come [...]

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Here’s how decisions and rules relate (and how to manage them)

March 5, 2009

One of the questions I get often is around how decisions and business rules relate. People want to know so they can design their system and so they can manage change. I recently got a request for a link to a post describing the difference and I realize that, though I have lots of posts [...]

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Business Rules to Programmers – Methink thou doest protest too much III

February 27, 2009

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Concluding my response to – Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To it’s time to answer the specific comments I got. First, the reasonable ones:
Ken said:
It depends on the business requirement. If business rules need to be changed on the fly then a rules engine framework makes the most sense. If, as [...]

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Decision Management and software development III – DSLs

February 13, 2009

Martin Fowler always writes interesting things on his site and this one was no exception: Will DSLs allow business people to write software rules without involving programmers? In it he says:
…greatest potential benefit of DSLs comes when business people participate directly in the writing of the DSL code. The sweet spot, however is in making [...]

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DIALOG closing thoughts – better decisions for a smarter planet

February 12, 2009

One of the best things about being at DIALOG was the opportunity to meet a bunch of ILOG customers and learn how they are making better decisions in their organizations. It seems to me that every one of these customers is, in a very practical way, helping to build a smarter planet. The first group [...]

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