Next up was Chris Collard of Dell talking about building a decision engine. Chris had done an implementation at Dell Financial Services and was sharing some of his experience with replicating that at Dell. Chris talks about decision engines as full decomposed applications - data, process and logic all externalized. Chris’ central thesis is
Effective Decision [...]

I saw this post on Better Projects and it reminded me of days spent writing a RAD methodology for Ernst and Young. RAD, or Rapid Application Development, uses prototyping and lots of short iterations to keep a development project on track. The post has a nice graphic showing the cycles within cycles used in the [...]

Mike, over at the requirements defined blog, had this post today: Dr. Changelove (or how I learned to quit worrying and love change). I used a similar title just over a year ago in an article on ebizQ called Business Rules Cafe (for those who don’t remember, Atomic Cafe was another satirical film about the [...]

Dave Wright and Scott Ambler have started a discussion about the book over on the Requirements Network - check out this topic (registration required) if you want to join in.

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 [...]

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain and I presented on Getting It Right. Rules and Requirements in Software. Scott writes a great blog on requirements.
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I reviewed one of the books we referenced, Use Cases: Requirements in Context
Enjoy.