The future of BPO includes business rules

David Margulius wrote a nice piece on BPO in InfoWorld recently - The great business process handoff. I have blogged a couple of times about the value of business rules when considering business process outsourcing but a couple of comments...

Interesting rules articles in DM Review today

Rolando makes some great points in this one The Rules of Business Just Changed. Again. How Fast Can You Change? where he discusses how business rules can give you a critical edge through business agility. This one - Business Intelligence...

Agile Rules? A "conversation" with Scott Ambler

Scott Ambler is a well known writer on Agile techniques and some of his comments were posted on a business rules group recently - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bizrules/. I found some of them very interesting and so got Scott's permission to re-post them...

Don't sleep on it, automate it

Interesting article in New Scientist - 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions. While this is mostly about how people make decisions about things that affect them directly, it made me think about businesses who are relying on staff to...

Keeping rules and process separate, but linked

Nice post by Sandy Kemsley on ebizq - Separating rules and process. Don't think I need to add anything to this one...

Business rules and business intelligence

Saw David Loshin's article on Refining Simple Business Rules on B-Eye network today. He gives a nice summary of the kinds of rules that can be used in a business intelligence context. While the rules David discusses are not the...

Got events, SOA? You need business rules

In Time for event-driven SOA Joe McEndrick summarizes a post by Brenda Michelson It seems to me, reading these, that a business rules approach to automating operational business decisions would be a very valuable element in an event-driven SOA. Joe...

EDM and EDW

Scott Gnau and Ron Swift of Teradata wrote a nice piece in DM Review that I saw today - 2006 Information Technology Trends for CIOs They talk about competing on analytics - quoting Tom Davenport's interesting article on this subject...

Still more on maintenance!

Shining a Light on Maintenance by Mary Pratt in Computerworld highlighted some of the problems in IT maintenance, in particular costs and management of budgets. There was a lot of good material in the article including this great quote: He...

More on focusing on requirements

I have blogged a lot about the problem of requirements. I saw another article on this today, Unraveling the Mystery of Software Development Success. Now while I agree with much Joe Marasco has to say, I was a little disappointed...