I participated in recording this Business Decision Management roundtable with some folks for Brainstorm Group and I highly recommend it.
Enjoy

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An email acquaintance who works with business rules at a large European financial institution sent me an interesting question today. In it he said
I think that some degree of redundancy between UCs[Use Cases] and BRs[Business Rules] are needed, because if all BRs are extracted from the UCs (and not shown there anymore) it would become very hard [...]

Column 2 : Policies, procedures, processes and rules
Interesting post on policies, procedures and procesess and the new questions that arise from new technology for managing them.
(tags: process procedure policy business rule column2 traceability)

SAP, business rules and decision management - Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog
My thoughts on the acquisition by SAP of business rules vendor [...]

Rob Meredith corrected my post on BI where I accused him of being Curt Monash rather than part of the Monash University team down under! He made a couple of great comments too. While I loved his distinction around business intelligence (being about collecting information not necessarily making better decisions), I do have to take [...]

Several posts caught my eye last week while I was at the Business Rules Forum on the topic of Business Intelligence (BI) and made me wonder if “BI” is the best way to build an intelligent business. Claudia Imhoff started me off with an article on Operational Business Intelligence – A Prescription for Operational Success in which [...]

Now I am back from the forum I thought I would blog a quick summary of the posts I found on various blogs. These include mine, Sandy Kemsley’s Column2, David Raab on the Customer Experience and Edison over on the Drools blog.

A framework for selecting business rules platforms
Ron Ross keynote and From Business Rules to [...]

One of the interesting panels was the one that Steve Hendrick of IDC hosted where representatives of many of the big players in business rules took questions. I did not attempt to take detailed notes but here are some of the things that struck me:

All the vendors are very focused on providing more tools to [...]

Sandy Kemsley, a well known BPM blogger, reviewed the book over on Column2 - Smart Enough Systems.

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
The slides are on slideshare here

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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.

John Elder was next. John is a well-known data mining expert who runs Elder Research Inc. John was presenting on Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules. John’s focus was on data mining and other analytics techniques and he presented his top 10 mistakes:

Lack DataFor instance fraud cases can be so rare in a [...]