JT on EDM

One of my regular readers had a question today about Enterprise Decision Management and the Software Development Lifecycle - the EDMSDLC if you like. Here’s what he asked:
We do Business Rules in our approach… I guess one question would be, where does EDM fit in a typical SDLC? [company] does Requirements, we have a method [...]

Tammy Erickson wrote an interesting piece last week The End of Line Managers as We Know Them - Peter Drucker’s Prediction that made we wonder how applying enterprise decision management, EDM, would change the role of line managers. Several changes would seem to be likely:

Less rubber-stamping
With the automation of approvals, eligibility, refunds, pricing decisions and [...]